'I am a woman in every cell of my body.' Penny Mordaunt clarifies her trans stance after criticism from a conservative campaign group
She said she never supported self-identification of gender when a caller, Nicola from Leicester, asked if she would allow "anyone" to change their gender on their birth certificate at will.
A Gender Recognition Act during Theresa May's government would have allowed trans people to self-identify as male or female without a medical diagnosis.Sunak and Truss clear first Tory leadership hurdle as eight candidates survive nominations "And people who have been through the gender recognition process, gender reassignment, some people will have a birth certificate reissued to them in their new gender. And in law they will be in their new gender and when you're writing law about those people you have to take that into account.
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