The Labour leader insisted if his party won the next general election there would be no 'rolling back' of women's rights
Talking about women's rights, Sir Keir told the Sunday Times:"I think there is a fear that somehow there could be the rolling back of some of the things that have been won.
He added that there is a"very small number" of people who identify as a different gender to the one they were born with as he called for an end to a"toxic divide" over trans issues. "But simply turning it into a toxic divide advances the cause of no one - the cause of women or those that don't identify with the gender that they were born into."In early March, Harry Potter authorafter he said"trans women are women, and that is not just my view - that is actually the law".
"And I think that's a very important message, and I think that's why it's clear that in Scotland there should be a reset of the situation."In his latest comments, he also told the Sunday Times he would"want to know" if his children were identifying as trans after a report found 39 out of 140 English secondary schools were"reliably informing" parents when pupils identified as trans or questioned their gender.
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