Liz Truss, Conservative prime minister for just 50 days, is calling on Rishi Sunak to back legislation preventing children from attempting to change their gender and banning trans women from entering female-only spaces or competing in women’s sport.
Truss’ attempt to change the law – the Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill – will need Government support and could be debated by MPs on Friday of this week.
Her backbench Bill, which she said the Conservatives should back it to draw a clear dividing line with Labour in election year, offers “common sense measures which enjoy widespread support”, she claimed.
Truss said: “My Bill will for the first time define sex in law as biological sex, thereby ending the absurd and dangerous situation where biological males self-defining as females can access girls’ and women’s toilets and so on – as well as sports competitions.
“It will provide protection for vulnerable children and teenagers who otherwise could be led down a path of making body-altering decisions that they may come to regret, while giving essential legal clarity to parents and teachers.”
The Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill may be debated this coming Friday, with two other pieces of legislation listed before it, the attempt to change the law may not be debated.
