“Trans people facing ‘workers’ rights crisis’ as court rules employers can ban trans women from using female toilets”, 13 February 2026

Trans people are facing a “workers’ rights crisis”, campaigners have warned, after the High Court ruled that employers can legally ban transgender women from using female toilets and changing rooms in the workplace. 

The Good Law Project and three individuals brought the legal challenge against Britain’s rights watchdog over interim “guidance” …

The latest ruling means that workplaces must provide single sex bathrooms on the basis of biological sex. Employers will be unable to allow, for example, trans women to use single-sex women’s toilets…

But Friday’s judgment also ruled that service providers are not required to exclude trans people from using toilet provisions which are in line with their lived gender, with a High Court judge saying service providers should be “guided by common sense and benevolence” rather than be “blinkered by unyielding ideologies” when providing toilet facilities...

While this section of the High Court judgment can be seen as a victory for trans people, there are also concerns that it leaves deep inconsistencies in the law between the workplace and outside it…

The organisation warned that the implications of the judgement for workplaces means trans people are at risk of being outed at work…