Trans advocates are incensed after the Equality Human Rights Commission (EHRC) laid out how amending the Equality Act to make sex mean biological sex could impact trans rights. Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch wrote to the EHRC, the UK’s human rights watchdog, in February asking for its advice on what she described as a “technical and contested area of law” – how the Equality Act defines sex. In a response published Tuesday (4 April), the EHRC said changing the Equality Act to amend the definition of sex to “biological sex” could result in “greater legal clarity” around single-sex spaces, excluding “trans women from women’s sport” and so-called “freedom of association for lesbians and gay men”, and “therefore merits further consideration”.