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Caitlin Doherty

Sir Keir Starmer’s route to ‘common sense position’ on transgender policy

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London (Carl Court/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has “hauled the Labour party back to the common sense position”, a Labour Party source said on Wednesday, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that the terms “women” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

The Government has said that the decision delivers “clarity” on the matter for hospitals and refuges of whether or not a person with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) identifying as female should be treated as a woman under equality law.

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