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janterry

(4,429 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 06:45 AM Jun 2020

Boris Johnson set to scrap plan to allow for gender self-id

and will offer protections for female only spaces

Boris Johnson scraps plan to make gender change easier
Women-only facilities will be protected

Plans to allow people to change their legal gender and “self-identify” as a different sex have been scrapped in a move that will fuel the culture war gripping Britain.

Ministers and Boris Johnson’s team in No 10 have ditched plans developed under Theresa May’s government to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis.

Instead they plan to announce a ban on “gay-cure” therapies in an attempt to placate LGBT people. New protections will be offered to safeguard female-only spaces, including refuges and public lavatories, to stop them from being used by those with male anatomy.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-johnson-scraps-plan-to-make-gender-change-easier-zs6lqfls0

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