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Liz Truss is calling on her successor Rishi Sunak to back her bid to change the law in a move to ban biological males from entering female-only spaces.
The ex-PM wants to end an 'absurd and dangerous situation' where biological males self-defining as women can access female toilets or compete in female-only sports.
Ms Truss demanded Government support for her attempt to alter legislation to define 'sex' as 'biological sex' as she hit out at 'extreme' transgender ideology.
Her bid to change the law, which she said would draw a dividing line with Labour ahead of the general election, could be debated by MPs on Friday.
She has the support of Sharron Davies, the ex-Olympic swimmer, and gender-critical campaigner Maya Forstater for her Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill.
But the Bill, which Ms Truss introduced to the House of Commons as a backbench bill, stands little chance of becoming law unless she also wins Government backing.
Liz Truss is calling on her successor Rishi Sunak to back her bid to change the law in a move to ban biological males from entering female-only spaces
The ex-PM has the support of Sharron Davies, the former Olympic swimmer, for her Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill
Gender-critical campaigner Maya Forstater, co-founder of Sex Matters, is also backing Ms Truss's Bill
As well as changing the law to define 'sex' as 'biological sex', Ms Truss's Bill - if passed into law - would prevent anyone in an official capacity from claiming a child is the opposite sex.
The former PM claimed this would see girls be treated as girls and boys as boys until they are 18.
Her Bill would also ban the prescription of body-altering hormones to children questioning their sex, both privately and on the NHS.
Ms Truss said: 'My Bill will for the first time define sex in law as biological sex, thereby ending the absurd and dangerous situation where biological males self-defining as females can access girls' and women's toilets and
