“I think it’s hugely othering, it’s very dangerous, and it’s seeking to make a group of people the butt of jokes. I just think it’s unacceptable,” warns Caroline Nokes, Tory chair of the Women and Equalities Committee NickMDuffy reports
The MP – who attended Cabinet under Theresa May but has remained on the backbenches under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – acknowledged that her argument “may be failing within my own party at the moment” but stressed some Tory MPs are supportive of transgender people.
Ms Nokes said: “I look at the appointment now through the prism of, this was an appointment done by Liz Truss, who had a very particular agenda when it came to equalities.” Of attempts to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces, she said: “This is a classic bully tactic, we’re going to go after the small group who too few people care about, and we’re going to other them, and we’re going to make it all but impossible for them to access services the rest of us take for granted.”
A spokesperson for the Equality and Human Rights Commission said: “It is our legal duty to uphold the equality and the human rights of everyone in Britain, and this is at the heart of everything we do.
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