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NHS must adapt to Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender, says equalities watchdog
Susan smith (centre left) and Marion Calder (centre right) co-directors of For Women Scotland with campaigners celebrate outside the Supreme Court in London after the ruling earlier this week

PUBLIC bodies such as the NHS must update their policies in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex-based rights, Britain’s equalities watchdog warned today.

The Supreme Court’s ruling that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act were “biological” terms was “enormously consequential,” according to Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chairwoman Baroness Kishwer Falkner.

She confirmed that trans women could no longer take part in women’s sport and that “single-sex services like changing rooms must be based on biological sex.”

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