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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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David Lynch

DARK SECRETS: Mps warned to use careful language to prevent trans people being targeted | Rare Historical Photos

Politicians must be careful in how they speak about trans people to prevent them being “targeted in an inappropriate way”, a minister has said.

Minister for women Maria Caulfield urged MPs to be mindful of their language as they debated a petition from 110,000 people calling for the Equality Act to be clarified so the terms “man” and “woman” legally mean biological sex and not “sex as modified by a Gender Recognition Certificate”.

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