Hong Kong court hears challenge to law preventing trans people from using toilets of affirmed gender before surgery

Hong Kong should allow transgender people to use public toilets designated for their chosen gender before they have undergone surgery, the High Court was told during a constitutional challenge to the city’s public convenience regulations. The legal bid filed by K, who identifies as a male but was born as a woman, was heard by Judge Russell Coleman on Thursday. The applicant seeks to amend the wording in the Public Conveniences (Conduct and Behaviour) Regulations to allow a transgender person undergoing Real Life Experience (RLE) treatment under the certification and care of a doctor to use pub…

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