Center Parcs, the holiday firm, is thought to be one of the first large British companies to have a policy of refusing transgender women access to female changing facilities unless they have gone through a full transition,

The policy emerged publicly after a customer contacted Center Parcs while planning a trip to the Lake District to ask if there were any rules that she should be made aware of as a newly transitioned woman.

In a blog, she says that she started hormone therapy last December. She was told that private changing rooms were available for transgender guests.

A customer services representative added by email: “Transgender guests are welcome to use the changing rooms that match with their acquired gender if they have gone through