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ā€˜Teach Our Children To Love Their Bodies, Not Take Drugs To Change Them’

Children should be encouraged to ā€œlove the bodies they haveā€, rather than try to medically alter them, an MP has warned.

David Davies issued the caution in a riposte to Parliamentary support for making it easier to ā€˜change sex’.

He has also challenged the Prime Minister to tighten transsexualism law after a doctor in his constituency reportedly prescribed powerful cross-sex hormones to children.

Davies was speaking out against the Women and Equalities Committee’sĀ call for ā€˜self-declaration’ of gender, which has beenĀ given Government support.

But the MP for Monmouth said such a move would lead to commonplace ā€œinvasions of privacyā€ in toilets and changing rooms.

Adding, ā€œany attempt to question this could well end up being seen as an infringement of human rights, and a hate crime as wellā€.