Gender Recognition

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:47 pm on 6 December 2023.

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Photo of Neil O'Brien Neil O'Brien Conservative, Harborough 1:47, 6 December 2023

The issues of gender recognition and self-ID that my right hon. Friend is working to clarify are increasingly an issue in amateur and professional sports, with the risk of serious injury to women and girls and also examples of unfairness. Does she agree that, in general, for most sports, it is safer and fairer to separate on the basis of biological sex?