say open to interpretation. they believe that is the original intention of the act and they say that the meaning of sex has evolved over time, that s why a change in the law is needed and it will give greater legal protection to people who run single sex spaces and they talk about things like hospital wards and rape crisis centres. the other thing they will do is to make it a reserve matterfor other thing they will do is to make it a reserve matter for westminster, so it will be westminster that decides on these things which could be an interesting way to go on this. so that is what they are putting forward. they have of course in the past been criticised for stoking up division on this issue and today the liberal democrats are saying they are waging a phony culture war. labour is not saying it will change the outcome it says it would be looking to provide better guidance to people about this, but of course what the conservatives are saying this is about tidying up the act,
progressed the conservatives say is the reason that the law needs updating. what they are talking about is tweaking the equality act, passed in 2010. the conservatives say that in the intervening 1a years, there are so many more issues being thrown up around sex and gender that the law requires updating. specifically, kemi badenoch, the equalities minister, said she was to change the law, to make clear that references to sex refer to biological sex. biological sex at the time of birth, although in some cases people will have gender recognition certificate that might change things. the kind of settings the conservatives say this would affect our female only spaces like certain hospital wards or prisons and also rape crisis centres, it might have implications for women s sport because above all what the conservatives want to do is reassure those settings that, should they wish to bar biological males, evenif they wish to bar biological males, even if they might have a gender recognition
on today, alex? i was working on what the conservatives probably l what the conservatives probably wanted what the conservatives probably wanted to talk about today before said nigel farage news, which is a plan that said nigel farage news, which is a plan that the conservatives have come plan that the conservatives have come up plan that the conservatives have come up with to rewrite the equality act, which come up with to rewrite the equality act, which was an act that dates back act, which was an act that dates back to act, which was an act that dates back to 2010 and effectively enshrines in the law the rights of some enshrines in the law the rights of some protected characteristics. one of them some protected characteristics. one of them is some protected characteristics. one of them is six, and what the conservatives have been saying is their conservatives have been saying is their plan conservatives have been saying is their plan is they want to change that t
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The trial of a former government minister charged with beating his wife to death has gripped public attention in Kazakhstan, and some see it as a litmus test of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's promise to build a fairer, more equitable society. Shocking footage played in the courtroom this week showed Kuandyk Bishimbayev, a former economy minister, repeatedly kicking and punching a slender young woman wearing only a coat and boots, and dragging her around by her hair. The woman, 31-year-old Saltanat Nukenova, was found dead last November in a restaurant owned by a relative of her husband, where the couple had spent almost a whole day and the previous night.