The updated EHRC Code explains how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services and public functions, including the provision of separate and single-sex services. Will the government support the urgent publication of equivalent, updated employment guidance reflecting current equality law? “We say this to you in no uncertain terms: Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identities are fundamentally valid,” the letter states. Akua Reindorf, a former EHRC commissioner who worked on the code, said: “It’s either performative or it’s uninformed. The law is the law, the guidance is not the law; it just tells you how to comply with the law.