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Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

But surely as legislators, if we use a word we have to define it. We all know that there have been problems with conflating sex and gender. The amendment clearly states “sex or gender” and since “sex” is defined, as one would expect, by reference to section 11 of the Equality Act 2010, surely we can define what we mean by “gender”. If we cannot define what we mean by “gender”, why are we including it as an aggravation?

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Reference

709 c764 

Session

2021-22

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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