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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti Senior political correspondent

DARK SECRETS: Labour vows to modernise simplify and reform gender recognition act - The Real Truth

Transgender people and supporters march through central London during the fifth Trans Pride march
Anneliese Dodds also vowed not to ‘override the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act’. Photograph: WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Labour will overhaul an “outdated” law to make it easier for transgender people to transition while maintaining protections for single-sex spaces, the party’s chair and shadow equalities secretary has said.

Writing in the Guardian, Anneliese Dodds accused the Conservative party of seeking to stoke “culture wars” by pinning its hopes for electoral success on “demonising vulnerable LGBT+ people”.

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