EDUCATION unions are calling on the government to provide clear guidance to schools and colleges on how to interpret the law with regard to children who question their gender, following the Supreme Court’s ruling this week on the definition of women under the Equality Act.

The court ruled on Wednesday that the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”

This means that transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if “proportionate.”