Policing Minister Dame Diana Johnson insists there are "laws that protect and stop harassment and discrimination of trans people" in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think at the moment we're very clear from the Supreme Court judgment last week
00:03about what the law is, what the Equality Act 2010, which the Labour Government introduced, actually means.
00:09So I think on that basis we now need to move forward.
00:12The guidance I was just talking about from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission will be very helpful,
00:17but that's the position we're in at the moment.
00:19This is about individuals, so I want to reassure, as did the Supreme Court actually in their judgment last week,
00:26that the laws that protect and stop harassment and discrimination for trans people are there.
00:33They are the same laws that were in place before the judgment last week,
00:37but what we've got is the clarity around the Equality Act 2010,
00:40which I think is very helpful to everybody now to understand what the law actually says.