Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says he accepts the Supreme Court’s ruling that sex in the Equality Act refers to biological sex. He said the judgment brings clarity to a long-confused area of law but urged the government and Equality and Human Rights Commission to issue clear guidance to help businesses and individuals understand the implications. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We accept entirely the court's ruling, as you'd expect, and they've brought greater clarity to the Equality Act, which many people had been confused about for some time.
00:12I think now we need the government and the Equality and Human Rights Commission to bring forward better guidance, so the implications of this court ruling can be well understood by businesses and by individuals.
00:23Well, we've always argued that for the vast majority of people, their gender is the same as their biological sex at birth, but the law for over two decades now has recognised that there are some people who identify in a different gender to their biological birth sex, and I think the law is right to make that distinction.