Brit-Award-winning singer
@katenash joined nearly 1,000 trans people and allies at a mass lobby of parliament, and said if draft Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) guidance on single-sex spaces was implemented it would be “devastating to trans lives”.
The singer, best-known for her Noughties track “Foundations” and who recently released fiercely pro-trans single “Germ”, turned up at the event on Wednesday (25 June).
A mass lobby is when a large number of people contact their MPs and members of the House of Lords in advance and all arrange to meet them at parliament on the same day. Such activities are often organised by campaign groups to show the strength of feeling about an issue.
The crowd at Westminster wanted to voice their concerns about the EHRC’s proposed changes to its Code of Practice on single-sex spaces which look set to be implemented in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s gender ruling.
When the guidance was published, the EHRC said it would give the governm...