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    Government could back Liz Truss’s transgender law reforms

    by Christopher McKeon Mar 15, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: PA Wire

    The Government could be set to back proposals from Liz Truss that would bar “biological males” from female-only spaces.

    Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is understood to be sympathetic to proposals from the former prime minister, due to be debated in the Commons on Friday, that would “define sex in law as biological sex”.

    The legislation aims to bar transgender women from female-only spaces such as changing rooms and toilets,

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