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Viscount Hailsham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 June 2026

Debate

Equality Act 2010: Code of Practice

Contribution

My Lords, although I very much welcome the decision of the Supreme Court, there may be room for statutory exemption in respect of persons who have fully transitioned—that is to say, certificated and having gone through the gender-affirming surgery. There is a case for saying that they should be entitled to assert their acquired gender. I will cite just one case. I have a friend, a biological male, who was married as such and had children as such, and who has transitioned, is fully certificated and has gone through affirmative surgery. It is not reasonable to say that a person in that situation, albeit a biological male, should, if circumstances arise—in this case they would not—go to a male prison. That would be nonsense.

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