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GOVERNMENT EQUALITIES OFFICE – GENDER CRITICAL VIEWS & FREE SPEECH - 11 March 2025

GOVERNMENT EQUALITIES OFFICE – GENDER CRITICAL VIEWS & FREE SPEECH - 11 March 2025

Sir Julian Lewis: I take the opportunity to acknowledge the hon. Lady’s bravery in standing up for what she believes in. Does she agree with me that there is a wider political danger from this form of indoctrination and extremism about gender and sex, which is that if the only people in politics who are prepared to speak out about it are from extreme right-wing movements, and mainstream politicians are too afraid to say anything, it pushes ordinary people in the direction of political extremes?

[Rosie Duffield: I thank the right hon. Gentleman so much for raising that important point. Just for speaking up, I, a left-wing member of the Labour party, have been called a Reform member and all kinds of names, and it has been suggested that I join a right-wing party, yet an awful lot of the articles I read agreeing with me are in the Morning Star. People do not really listen to the ideology behind our beliefs and why we speak up for the rights of working women, which is what the Labour party was founded to do. …]