A charity’s legal challenge against rules allowing trans people to use the single-sex facilities at Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds cannot proceed at the High Court, a judge has ruled.
Sex Matters took legal action against the City of London Corporation, which operates the men’s, ladies’ and mixed bathing ponds in north London.
It said the policy of allowing trans people to use the facilities for the gender with which they identify amounted to sex discrimination.
But Mrs Justice Lieven dismissed the challenge saying the “appropriate forum” for the claim is the county court, rather than the High Court.
