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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Claudia Savage

Tories pledge to overhaul equality laws to end ‘confusion’ and protect women-only spaces

PA Wire

The Tories have pledged to overhaul equality laws to redefine what the term “sex” means in law.

The Conservatives say amending the Equality Act to define the characteristic of sex as biological sex and not “redefined meanings of the word”, will improve the safety of women and girls in single-sex spaces.

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