Clause 4
Equality Bill
2:00 pm
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
Would the Minister at least agree that it would be extremely undesirable in terms of humanity and public policy if any individual who was in this ambiguous position felt under any pressure to undergo some physical process of gender reassignment by medication or whatever on the fear that otherwise they would not be able to avail themselves of defence under the protective characteristics provisions. The last thing we want is to drive somebody into doing something they do not want to do in order to get them protections they feel they need.