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Expanding gay sex pardons to women won't help most prosecuted lesbians

By Caroline Derry, Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University

More than a decade after launching a scheme to disregard and pardon convictions for historic “gay sex” offences, the government has now announced the scheme will apply to women. But a look at the history of lesbians convicted for same-sex activity shows that this will do very little to right historic wrongs.

When the scheme was created in 2012, it was limited to cautions and convictions…

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