CV NEWS FEED // Conservative party members in Britain have vowed to clearly define sex and gender as biological in the Equality Act if they win the upcoming election on July 4.
According to a June 3 Reuters report, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated the party’s intention is to end the “ambiguity” surrounding the subject.
“The safety of women and girls is too important to allow the current confusion around definitions of sex and gender to persist,” the party said in a statement, adding: “Conservatives believe that making this change in law will enhance protections in a way that respects the privacy and dignity of everyone in society.”
While Sunak acknowledged that the Equality Act “already protects single sex spaces for biological women,” he said the party intends to establish “clearer guidance” on what is meant by “biological woman” to guard against exploitation.
Sunak has been outspoken in his opposition toward transgender ideology, stating in a Conservative party conference last year “we shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be.”
“A man is a man, and a woman is a woman,” he added. “That’s just common sense.”
As Reuters notes, the 2010 Equality Act “allows service providers to operate single-sex and separate sex services such as toilets, domestic abuse refuges and changing rooms where they have a good reason to do so and it is appropriate.”
Service providers may also exclude individuals who identify as transgender and have Gender Recognition Certificates (GRC) in some circumstances under existing laws.
