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Labour leader Keir Starmer
LABOUR said today it welcomes government plans to review the Equality Act, potentially defining sex explicitly as “biological sex.”
“Clarification is a good thing,” the party said, adding it would wait on specific proposals.
Such a move would make it easier to mandate single-sex access to certain spaces without risking legal challenges over exclusion of trans women.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
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