Liz Truss ‘furious’ after MPs accused of blocking transgender reform bill
by Alexandra Rogers, Sky News:
The former prime minister did not get time to debate proposals to ban transgender women from female-only spaces after MPs ran down the clock with other lengthy debates.
A controversial proposal to ban transgender women from female-only spaces will not be debated after both Tory and Labour MPs were accused of filibustering a bill drawn up by Liz Truss.
The former prime minister said she was “furious” at the Labour Party for preventing debate on her Private Member’s Bill, which would also have barred transgender women from participating in women’s sports and stopped children attempting to change their sex.
However, it is also understood some Conservatives had been asked to prolong the earlier debates to run down the clock and stop Ms Truss’s bill from being debated – a tactic known as filibustering – although one Tory MP sought to play down the claims.
In a statement, Ms Truss said Labour “don’t even want to discuss how to protect children and single-sex spaces, let alone put those protections into law”.
“Labour care more about ideology than the protection of children,” she claimed.
Ms Truss was backed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch, who posted on X: “Just now Labour MPs prevented debate on a new law to protect children and single-sex spaces. Instead they used parliamentary time to discuss ferret name choices.
Watch: Andrew Doyle on GB News:
“Keir Starmer is terrified of debate on safeguarding & his MPs actively work to ignore the concerns of constituents.”
‘Perhaps the MPs involved in this infantile filibustering should start thinking of their excuses now, because in the future they may be asked “what did you do about the state-sanctioned medical experimentation on kids?” “Oh, we spoke about ferrets.”
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