Beyond the Binary Ban: Why the UK Must Invest in Gender Diversity, Not Exclusion

The United Kingdom's evolving legal guidance on transgender access to single-sex spaces highlights a crisis in Western gender politics, often framed as a conflict between women's rights and trans rights. Updated draft guidance allows trans people to be excluded from certain single-sex spaces, yet offers limited structural alternatives for non-binary individuals, leading to exclusion rather than inclusion. The article contrasts this with Nepal's historical experience, which included wider understandings of gender diversity and legal recognition of a third gender.