🚨❄️JANUARY UPDATE: There are reports the government are considering how the EHRC’s proposed guidance could be changed. Your pressure is working. But will it be enough to scrap the bathroom ban? We have to protect inclusion as the norm, in line with how the Equality Act was always supposed to work. Will you help us? Even if you’ve written before, please consider writing again with our new template.

Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Practice to our Equality Act which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

Their draft tried to turn our equality laws into a bathroom ban, mandating the blanket exclusion of trans people from gendered spaces and services. Even if a business or association wants to remain trans-inclusive, they’d be told they must exclude us.

The EHRC rushed through more than 50,000 responses to its consultation on this draft using AI, and have now sent their final proposals to the government. Media leaks revealed that the EHRC wants organisations to police bathrooms based on people's looks and gender stereotypes - putting us all at risk if we have the ‘wrong’ appearance.

Will this Government approve a misogynist's charter?

This is unworkable, dangerous, and we cannot let it happen. Your voices are making a difference; MPs are expressing their deep concern about what is being proposed. There are reports of changes being considered to the EHRC’s Code of Practice.

Act now. Ask your MP to urge the government to scrap the bathroom ban and demand any new Code of Practice protects the norm of trans inclusion.

Pressure is building. Every voice matters here.

Please customise this template as much as you can - it really helps - and add a request for a meeting to the email if you’d be willing to discuss this face to face with your MP.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve already written to them, now is the time to really keep the pressure up. The government must send this unworkable draft code back and make sure any new guidance prioritises how to include trans people, and respects our human rights.