LONDON (Reuters) - After years of debate over the separation of transgender and female by birth, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced his intention to enact a bill to support women's biological rights, amid strong rejection from LGBT communities.

This follows a call by Equality Minister Kimi Badnoch of the Human Rights Commission in parliament in February to reformulate the term "gender" to include sex at birth, while the current law stipulates that a transgender person with a certificate of gender recognition legally belongs to the opposite sex.

The Equality and Human Rights Committee (EHRC), a non-ministerial public committee, explained that defining gender in this way is necessary to give greater legal clarity on what to use women-only spaces, to ensure greater privacy for women born female.

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Al Jazeera Net asked the young British woman Ishal Gangwa, who supported the law and saw it preserve the privacy of transgender people or those on the way to transformation, and she said that the situation is inappropriate for everyone's privacy, especially in hospitals and women's prisons.

While Phoebe Smith, who works in the health sector in the capital, London, said that she does not mind being with transgender people in places designated for women, such as hospitals or changing places, but she understands well the feelings of women who do not feel comfortable in that situation, stressing the need to enact a law related to transgender people accused of violence against women, it makes no sense to lock them up with women.


The controversy of women's prisons in Europe

This follows the uproar in January over Isla Bryson's conviction for rape against two women in Scotland, where Isla was a man named Adam Graham at the time of the murders.

Adam declared his desire to become a female, but did not undergo any surgeries before or after the charges were brought against him, while the court was notified that he had started taking female hormones, which the court considered sufficient reason to try him as a woman and put him in the women's prison, in a move that angered women's rights activists who considered it disgusting and dangerous for female prisoners.

The Scottish government was forced to enact a law that would send transgender defendants to prisons by sex of birth, despite the existence of the Self-Identity Act, which allows anyone aged 16 to choose a gender other than the one they were born with.

Wales also announced that those accused of transgender violence would not go to women's prisons, while the European Union's Steering Committee against Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion opened the debate on the matter, but the procedures still differ between EU countries between those who recognize transsexuality without the need for medical support and countries where medical advice is binding.

Experts at the European Commission are working to include measures that would ensure justice and equality among members of society, and the final report of the Commission is expected to be finalized soon, while Italy preempted everyone by designating a special prison for transgender people in the city of Bozal in 2010.

The crisis of sex education in schools

Public support for the UK government's actions has brought to the fore several thorny issues such as gender identification in the curriculum, with gender education education mandated compulsory curriculum in September 2020.

At first, many parents objected to the curricula and lost the legal battles that objected to the content, but after the activation of the teaching of these subjects, sharp clashes emerged between the parents of the children and supporters of the freedoms of the LGBT community, where all sexual topics are taught in an expanded manner, including transsexuality and gender genders, without taking into account the ages of the children.

This refusal from parents prompted more than 50 MPs to sign a petition last March stating that children were indoctrinating extremist and unproven ideologies about sex and gender, which called on the prime minister to intervene, and the Prime Minister's Office upheld the content of the petition.

Representative Miriam Keats called for an independent inquiry calling for the removal of all inappropriate educational materials related to sex education and gender education, explaining that children are exposed to lessons that are inappropriate for their age, and that there is a real concern that these curricula are politically motivated.

British newspapers describe the debates as a thorny issue steeped in fear, due to accusations of bigotry leveled by supporters of the gay community to anyone who tries to approach them, which British newspapers reject as bigotry.

It is worth noting that the election campaign of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak included promises that he would work to promote rights related to biological sex, and before him also his predecessor Boris Johnson, who stressed more than once the importance of birth sex, and Johnson passed a law banning some transgender and hormone therapies funded by the National Health Authority.

LGBT support communities are all escalating measures to harass LGBT people.