Rishi Sunak said: ‘The safety of women and girls is too important to allow the current confusion around definitions of sex and gender to…
The Conservatives have pledged to change the Equality Act to define the protected characteristic of sex as “biological sex”.
The sex of those with a Gender Recognition Certificate will still align with their acquired gender in law outside the Equality Act, for example marriage law, as is the status quo. “We are taking an evidence-led approach to this issue so we can continue to build a secure future for everyone across the whole country.”
The women and equalities minister also attacked “activist organisations” such as Stonewall for exploiting loopholes in the law “for their own agenda”. The Bill was prevented from proceeding to royal assent by an order under Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, made by the then secretary of state for Scotland, Alister Jack.
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