A damning report showing how trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance
Released: 19 August 2025
Shocking new evidence is released this week shining a light on how cis and trans people, since the Supreme Court ruling (FWS vs The Scottish Ministers) in April 2025[i], face violence, harassment and exclusion whether or not they are trying to follow “the new rules”.
The report, Trans segregation in practice, is published by TransActual. It documents, in graphic detail, the experiences of not just trans people, but also intersex individuals, and cis folk who do not present ‘conventionally’ in their everyday life.
Commenting on the report’s release, Keyne Walker, Strategy Director for TransActual said: “Today’s report tells a story of bullying and exclusion. The Supreme Court, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the government have all claimed to care about the dignity and safety of women and trans people. This report proves that by taking the approach of segregation they are failing in that.
“If the government care about discrimination and violence against women they will refuse any EHRC guidance that ends with organisations or individuals policing who goes into which bathroom, and restore equality law to a sound footing.
“But don’t take my word for it. Take it from the many people who have told us their story in this report.
“It never needed to be like this. As many legal experts have stated, the supreme court ruling was eccentric and at odds with broad understanding of Equality Law as it has operated over the past 15 years.
“Even were it correct, the EHRC could have sought a less extreme, harmful, disruptive and costly interpretation than they have, that does not impose automatic segregation based on the anti-scientific and undefined binary of ‘biological sex’.
“Their guidance, before it has even been finalised and considered by parliament and government, is already having a dire effect. Not just on trans people, but also anyone who might be ‘suspected’ of being trans. Organisations that would like to support trans people claim their hands are tied. Meanwhile, the guidance is acting as a bigot’s charter, creating confrontation on a daily basis that threatens to drive LGBTQ+ people out of work and public spaces.”
The report includes dozens of stories of individuals, trans and cis alike, whose lives have now been upended:
- Individuals denied access to bathrooms and changing facilities because they ‘don’t look right’;
- Individuals threatened with violence just for being out in public;
- Cis groups being ordered to exclude trans individuals – even when they do not wish to;
- People being outed at work through the implementation of new sex-segregated facilities;
- People being seriously disadvantaged, because the facilities they now must use do not exist.
The Trans Segregation report is published today, 19 August 2025. Click here to download your copy. It will be followed next week by Community in Fear, a sister report looking at the emotional and mental health impact of the Supreme Court ruling and subsequent EHRC guidance.
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[i] The Supreme Court Ruling, on 16 April 2025, held that for the specific purposes of the Equality Act 2010, trans people should be treated according to their biological sex, which is now widely interpreted as their sex ‘assigned at birth.’