Penny Mordaunt on the BBC’s Sunday Morning
(Picture: BBC)Tory leadership contender Penny Mordaunt has dismissed fresh claims about her views on transgender issues as “smears” and “toxic politics”.
The international trade minister denied reports that she had pushed through a policy to end the requirement for trans people to obtain a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria before they could legally change gender when she was equalities minister in Theresa May’s government.
