It is important that we try to detoxify this debate. I do not think the last contribution did so at all. In fact, it was deliberately provocative. I do not recognise anywhere in the Equality Act that there is a mandate on anyone’s dating pool and who should be in it. If people are worried about the law saying who they can date, they are not across the UK legislative system, which has no laws on who they can fancy and who should be in their dating pool. They can trawl wide or narrow across all—
Legislative Definition of Sex
Proceeding contribution from
Angela Eagle
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 12 June 2023.
It occurred during e-petition debate on Legislative Definition of Sex.
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