How Do the Parties’ Pledges on Sex and Gender Compare?

Published on June 27, 2024

With issues around gender ideology continuing to fuel the culture wars in a way that few could have predicted a decade ago, what are the parties’ pledging to maintain single sex spaces, protect women’s rights, and safeguard children? And what are they promising to appease the lobbying groups demanding “transgender rights?” Gender Change Certificates and Self-ID Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer drew widespread condemnation in 2021 when he rebuked his own MP Rosie Duffield for stating that “only women have a cervix,” claiming this was something that “should not be said.” He appears to have rowed back on this more recently, although he would not admit Ms. Duffield was right on a recent “Question Time” leaders’ special, stating instead that he “agrees with [Sir] Tony Blair that a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina.”...