The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations presented to the UK Parliament on 21 May 2026. This Code of Practice is emblematic of the increasingly hostile environment in the UK for the trans and intersex communities. In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature. The new Code of Practice follows 13 months after the UK Supreme Court’s (UKSC) 2025 decision in For Women Scotland, which the Lemkin Institute denounced as part of a genocidal process last summer in our Red Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK. In that decision, the UKSC found that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, 2010, “sex” referred exclusively to “biological sex.” As we previously pointed out, the decision failed to provide any definition, let alone a cogent one, of “biological sex.” For Women Scotland has the effect of preventing trans people from claiming sex discrimination under UK equality law on the basis of their lived sex or gender. The EHRC Code of Practice is not set in stone and needs to be approved by Parliament. As of this writing, 113 British Members of Parliament have signed an Early Day Motion calling for the EHRC Guidance to be rejected. The Lemkin Institute encourages the British public to write to their MPs asking them to sign the Early Day Motion to prevent this genocidal document from being adopted. We also encourage all who are able to attend Trans Solidarity Alliance’s Mass Lobby for Trans Equality on the 25th of June. Trans and intersex people have always existed in our world. The true test of civilization is how a society chooses to treat them. Read: bit.ly/EHRCstatement