A legal challenge brought by a charity over transgender people’s access to single-sex facilities at swimming ponds in Hampstead Heath has failed at the high court. Maya Forstater, the CEO of Sex Matters, said “the fight for women’s safety, privacy and dignity in single-sex spaces will continue”. She added that the claim was “ruled out on procedural grounds” and would not give providers the “green light” to allow trans people into single-sex facilities. It said more than 38,000 people took part in the two-month consultation, in which most people said they supported retaining the existing access arrangements. The same percentage opposed introducing single-sex access, 90% rejected requiring trans swimmers to use separate changing rooms or have separate swimming sessions, and 66% opposed making all ponds mixed sex.