Reframing the need for single-sex spaces under the Equality Act | Letter

Jacqui Lewis responds to a letter on the rights of trans people with regard tosingle-sex spacesRe the letter from Dr Matti Wenham (Glaring flaws in the idea of excluding trans people from single-sex spaces, 11 April), this issue can be reframed as “allowing single-sex spaces as set out in the Equality Act”, rather than “excluding trans people from single-sex spaces”. Under its terms, single-sex spaces are lawful if it can be shown that this is “a proportionate means