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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Tories will allow bars on trans women, says Kemi Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch. Changes to protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act to mean biological sex would enable organisations to exclude trans people. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/PA

Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives will change the Equality Act to rewrite the definition of sex and allow organisations to bar transgender women from single-sex spaces, including hospital wards and sports events.

The party will make clear that the protected characteristic of sex means biological sex, enabling those who wish to bar male-bodied people from organisations or activities to do so.

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