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the equalities act single sex spaces. you will reopen the equalities act of single sex spaces. you will reopen the equalities act of 2010. - single sex spaces. you will reopen the equalities act of 2010. so i the equalities act of 2010. so anybody could put down their own amendments, they could chew over this major piece of legislation. that is not the way we are planning to do it. i have been working on this for quite a while, it was interrupted by the snp gender recognition bill. if we go back to why the confusion has become more apparent, there has been a court case, with which said legal sex is what the language and the equality act means and so we need to bring that clarification in. it is very arcane, very technical, a lot of people don t understand and that is why we have so many of these very divisive debates, lots of people making all sorts of accusations. we want to bring more light into the issue. do want to bring more light into the issue. ,, . want to bring more light i
making it clearer for people and making it clearer for people and making it clearer for people and making it easier, they will of course be aware this is an issue that has been a sore spot for other parties, in particular labour and the s&p and they will not be unhappy for that to be poked. for that to be poked. helen catt with the prime for that to be poked. helen catt with the prime minister- for that to be poked. helen catt with the prime minister on i for that to be poked. helen catt with the prime minister on the i with the prime minister on the campaign trail. luckily we have kemi badenoch, the equalities minister here. the plan to amend the equalities act to specify sex, which is a protected characteristic and means biological sex. are you changing the law or are you clarifying what already exists? it is a change that will result in a clarification. the word biological is not there. this isjust making it clearer that the original intention of the act was that sex should be a
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,