'Tories pledge to tackle 'confusion' over legal definition of sex' - hurrah, a Tory policy I agree with. Be interested if any of the other main parties say anything clear about this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkvkkejgno
Absolute car wreck interview from Badenoch on Today this morning. This is apparently about clarifying the law, but she was completely unable and unwilling to clarify how the legal definition of 'biological sex' would be determined, given that trans people are allowed, legally, to change their birth certificates. So she was pressed several times on whether an original 'at birth' birth certificate would be required legally or whether trans people would be allowed to use their new, legal birth certificate.
She also effectively said that it was up to organisations to determine for themselves whether or not to restrict services by biological sex (not that she was clear what the law will define this to be).
Finally, and I think most terrifyingly, she appeared to suggest that a transwoman who had had gender reassignment surgery so now had no penis and has a vagina, would be sent to a men's prison, regardless of their crimes. And to protect them from other inmates (who will likely include a far higher proportion of rapists than are present in a women's prison) would be effectively put in isolation. I mean, WTF, so a transwoman 20 years on from surgery who is in jail due to fraud would be sent to a male prison, and effectively be subject to greater sanction by placed in isolation because of her trans status. Despite posing no risk whatsoever to the other inmates in a woman's prison.
Surely in the matter of prisons this needs to be dealt with on a case by case basis - based on assessment of the risk posed by that person to other inmates balanced against the risk posed to that person from other inmates.
