Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch is considering changing equality laws to include explicit protections for “biological” females, differentiating them from transgender women.
But the body said it had “come to the view that if ‘sex’ is defined as biological sex for the purposes of EqA , this would bring greater legal clarity in eight areas”.
The EHRC said a “biological definition of sex would make it simpler to make a women’s-only ward a space for biological women”. But it said a change in the definition could be “more ambiguous or potentially disadvantageous” when it comes to issues like equal pay, direct or indirect sex discrimination.
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