Rishi Sunak pledges to safeguard girls' and women-only spaces for biological females by re-writing equality laws - if he wins the election

Rishi Sunak last night pledged to rewrite equality laws to define sex as biological if he wins the election. The landmark change would help safeguard girls' and women-only spaces for biological females by stopping sex being conflated with gender identity, the Prime Minister said. It would effectively rewrite part of the Equality Act so transgender women can be blocked from entering female-only spaces such as single-sex hospital wards, rape crisis centres, prison cells and lavatories, and from competing in women's sports. Rishi Sunak speaks to journalists at Redcar racecourse as he launches the Conservative campaign bus on June 1 The landmark change would help safeguard girls' and women-only spaces for biological females by stopping sex being conflated with gender identity, the Prime Minister said Gender-critical campaigners, including former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies, welcomed the pledge as a victory for 'common sense'. Writing in today's Mail, Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said that Labour would take us back to square one 'That is why we are today pledging that, if we form a government after the election, we will clarify that sex in the law means biological sex and not new, redefined meanings of the word.'