Ministers have come under pressure to provide answers on how last week’s supreme court ruling on gender identity will affect the daily lives of transgender people, amid confusion over issues such as toilet provision and hospital wards.
Keir Starmer said he welcomed what he called “real clarity” and “a welcome step forward” in his first response to the court decision, which ruled that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman.
But Bridget Phillipson, who holds the equalities brief alongside her job as education secretary, faced repeated questions about the repercussions of the decision as she gave a Commons s...
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