Sport: Transgender Inclusion Debate

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Baroness Wilcox of Newport

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Sport: Transgender Inclusion

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Sarah Everard: Home Office Inquiry
Tuesday 9th November 2021

(3 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay Portrait Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con)
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I will leave colleagues in the Ministry of Defence to answer about their guide, but the sports councils’ guidance does not contain this wording or offer any advice on language. It aims to helps sports consider how to be inclusive without erasing anybody.

Baroness Wilcox of Newport Portrait Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab)
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I am sure that the Minister would agree that we should do all we can to increase participation in sport, so does he share the aspiration of the five sports councils to see increased transgender participation in sport and support their message to create novel or modified versions of some sports to increase inclusion?

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