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Angela Crawley Excerpts
Thursday 17th May 2018

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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I would be very happy to send that message from this Dispatch Box today. It is crucial that as we consult and discuss sensitive issues we do so in a climate of respect, empathy and understanding. Anything that runs counter to that must cease.

Angela Crawley Portrait Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East) (SNP)
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I welcome the Minister to her place. May I take this opportunity to recognise the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia? As part of the consultation, will the Government make the necessary legislative changes to allow non-binary people to record their gender as X on passports and on other UK-wide records and identity documents?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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If this long-awaited consultation is to have impact and be of good use, it should consult on a wide range of issues, some of which should be the non-binary issues.