Sarwar: We’ll enforce single sex jail spaces

SCOTTISH Labour has pledged to remove ‘all biologically male’ prisoners from women’s jails within days of the election.

The party said they would implement the Equality Act ‘straight away’ as the party set out its Women’s Manifesto.

The Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological sex but single-sex spaces are still not being fully implemented.

The Labour manifesto pledges to deliver single-sex wards within the NHS and to ‘remove all biologically male’ prisoners from women’s prisons within days of the election.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said: ‘We will stop using taxpayers’ money to challenge women, and we’ll get on straight away with implementing the Equality Act and making sure we’re protecting single-sex spaces based on biological sex.’