00:00The Sex Matters Charity is challenging the City of London Corporation's rules, allowing trans people to use the facilities at
00:08the Hampstead swimming ponds according to the gender with which they identify.
00:14The charity's lawyers told the High Court on Tuesday that the arrangement puts women at a particular group disadvantage compared
00:23to men, because they are at greater risk of their privacy, dignity and sense of safety being compromised.
00:30The corporation is defending the claim, telling the courts there had been no substantiated incident of inappropriate behaviour by a
00:39trans person since the policy was enacted in 2017.
00:44The corporation confirmed in June that the Highgate Men's Pond will be open to transgender men whose biological sex is
00:52female, while transgender women whose biological sex is male will continue to have access to the Kenwood Ladies Pond, while
01:00the Hampstead Mixed Pond is open to all.
01:04The Supreme Court ruled last year that a person's legal sex is the one they were biologically assigned at birth.
01:10Acting on behalf of the City of London Corporation, Daniel Stilitz said the admission arrangement is justified under proportionate means
01:20of minimising disadvantages to trans people, which fosters an environment that reflects the ethos of the ponds.
01:29Acting on behalf, seeing the support and allowing actresses for the
