Boris Johnson is set to scrap plans to allow people to change their legal gender by "self-identifying" as a different sex, it has been reported.
Measures drawn up under Theresa May's government to enable transgender people change their birth certificate without a medical diagnosis have been ditched by Mr Johnson's No 10 team, according to The Sunday Times.
Instead, the paper said ministers plan to announce a ban on "gay cure" therapies, in what was described as an attempt to placate LGBT people.
At the same time, the Government was said to be preparing to set out new safeguards to protect female-only spaces - including refuges and public lavatories - to stop them being used by those with male anatomy.
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