‘Biological Sex’ Will Be Affirmed in Equality Act to Protect Women, Pledge Conservatives

The Conservatives have said that if they win the next election, they will clarify language pertaining to “sex” in the Equality Act to mean “biological sex.” Minister for women and equalities Kemi Badenoch said that the changes were needed to protect women and girls from “predators” who are “exploiting loopholes in the law by calling themselves trans with no evidence beyond their self-identification” in order to access female spaces. Ms. Badenoch wrote in The Times of London on Sunday that the law has become “confused” as the uses of “gender” and “sex”—at one time, synonymous—have changed since the act became law in 2010, saying that “words in law are being re-interpreted to meanings quite different from what legislators intended.”...