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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 March 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

My amendments ask for something modest: a clarification that misgendering should not be treated as a criminal offence, let alone an aggravated one. This would not prevent the police investigating actual crimes against transgender people. It would simply remove the perverse incentive for trans activists to use the criminal law as a mechanism for compelling others to use their preferred pronouns—to force people, in effect, to assert a belief they do not hold.

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