British employers can allow trans women to use female changing rooms despite a landmark ruling on the definition of a woman under equality laws, but
alternative solutions may be necessary where complaints are raised, a tribunal said on Monday.
Transgender rights have become highly politicised in Britain and elsewhere as broad advances in LGBT rights have triggered a backlash among social conservatives and some feminists.
An employment tribunal said in a summary of its judgment that a recent decision by the UK Supreme Court – which said that only biological women meet the definition of women under the UK’s Equality Act – did not make it “inherently unlawful” for a trans woman to use a female changing room.
UK trans women can use female changing rooms if no complaints
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