Badenoch outlines Tories’ biological sex policy as Starmer focuses on defence
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Badenoch is now asked about what would happen if a transgender woman goes to a rape crisis centre with an amended legal birth certificate that states their legal sex is female – would they be able allowed in?
Badenoch says often this is “not a paperwork issue”.
Rather, what is happening, she says, is people coming to these centres are “visibly of a different sex”.
What about someone who has had gender reassignment surgery?, she is asked. Is only the sex at birth regarded as someone’s sex?
“That is what biological sex means,” she tells the Today programme.
Badenoch says what her party is “trying to do is protect women spaces” and stop men who are “predators” from exploiting transgender people and laws that protect transgender people.
She is pressed again on whether someone who has had gender reassignment surgery could attend a rape crisis centre?
That will depend on the service provider, Badenoch says.
She adds that independent rape crisis centres can choose whether they accept transgender people. Under her party’s proposal, if they choose not to, they can not be sued, she says.
Instead, the proposal is to try to stop people from exploiting the law, Badenoch explains.
Published at Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:28:21 +0000