"A charity's legal challenge against rules allowing trans people to use the single-sex facilities at Hampstead Heath's swimming ponds cannot proceed at the High Court, a judge has ruled. Sex Matters took legal action against the City of London, which operates the men's, ladies' and mixed bathing ponds in north London. It said the policy of allowing trans people to use the facilities for the gender with which they identify amounts to sex discrimination. But Mrs Justice Lieven dismissed the challenge saying the "appropriate forum" for the claim is the county court, rather than the High Court."
"The judge's decision comes after the Supreme Court ruling last year, which said that a person's legal sex is the one they were biologically assigned at birth. Tom Cross KC, for the charity, said at a hearing in December that the rules treat an individual woman "less favourably" than an individual man, as they are at "greater risk of suffering the detriment of her privacy, dignity or safety being compromised". He said the City of London should change its policy after the Supreme Court ruling."
A judge ruled that a legal challenge by Sex Matters over trans-inclusive access to single-sex bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath cannot proceed in the High Court and should be brought in the county court. The charity argued that allowing trans people to use facilities matching their gender identity amounts to sex discrimination and harms women's privacy, dignity and safety. The City of London defended its long-standing 2017 policy and argued the claim was out of time. The ruling follows a Supreme Court decision on legal sex, and a City consultation found nearly 90% support for trans-inclusive access among respondents.
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