MP Liz Truss wants backing (Image: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
The former prime minister wants to make it illegal for healthcare professionals to give minors with gender dysphoria drugs in order to “stop or delay the normal onset of puberty”.
The Tory MP believes children should be prevented from “making irreversible decisions which could leave them with long-term regret”. Her Bill, which would also change the law to define sex as “biological sex”, goes before MPs on Friday.
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Ms Truss hopes to combat “extreme trans activism” and ensure single-sex spaces and toilets are “sacrosanct”.
She says she was motivated to act after contact with worried young girls’ mothers in her South West Norfolk constituency.
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Her Bill aims to close legal “loopholes” she believes are being exploited by “gender ideology activists”.
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She 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 contests.
“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.”
Private Members Bills usually do not become law unless they get the support of the Government – and Ms Truss urged Mr Sunak’s administration to back the “common sense” measures. She said:
“While Labour continue to tie themselves in knots over their inability to define what a woman is, my Bill offers the Government the opportunity to show it is only the Conservatives who are prepared to challenge the gender ideologues and provide protection for children.”
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In December, Women and Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch told Ms Truss she would “support any effort to clarify the law” as “no child is born in the wrong body [or] should be put on a pathway to irreversible medical transition”.
The Government published non-statutory guidance that month, saying teachers should tell parents if their child wishes to change their gender identity and that primary-age pupils should not change their pronouns. Labour declined to comment.
A Government spokeswoman said: “The Minister is considering how the difference in law between sex and gender can be -clarified and strengthened. Our guidance for schools is clear. Social transition is not a neutral act.”
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