'It’s recycled homophobia': Caller criticises Kemi Badenoch’s proposed changes to the Equality Act

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'It’s recycled homophobia': Caller criticises Kemi Badenoch’s proposed changes to the Equality Act
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‘It’s recycled homophobia.’ mrjamesob hears from this despondent caller who claims Kemi Badenoch’s law would put trans people in danger.

This caller claimed Kemi Badenoch’s law allowing organisations to bar trans women from single-sex spaces would put trans people “in danger.”after Kemi Badenoch declared the changes that she wants to make to the official wording of the Equality Act, describing it as "recycled homophobia” which would put "trans people in danger”.

When asked how this policy would be policed, Grace said: “You can’t - there are women that don’t look particularly feminine, there are men that don’t look particularly masculine." The changes would prevent trans women from using single-sex spaces such as hospital wards and toilets.

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