gender

Many public bodies will now be reviewing their gender policies, but how much day-to-day change we'll see is going to take time to find out.

A complex, emotionally charged and fiercely contested argument around gender, trans rights and women's sex-based rights has often left politicians at Westminster floundering to answer a seemingly straightforward question.

That's particularly the case on a practical level, given those providing these services aren't actually meant to ask to see a gender recognition certificate.

Any other policy that unfairly disadvantages people based on characteristics over which they have no meaningful control, such as their ethnicity, race, sex, gender, religious upbringing or native language, would rightly be deemed unacceptable.

This is just two seats away from gender parity, which would make California the largest global economy — and one of only four U.S. states — to have a legislature that is 50% women.