x services, suggesting it is lawful to operate a single-sex service on a mixed-sex basis determined by Self-ID,” he wrote online. “I don’t think this is correct,” he added with admirable restraint, pointing out that it might amount to indirect discrimination or harassment.
It certainly appears to break Labour’s manifesto commitment to uphold single-sex spaces. It also contradicts Keir Starmer’s insistence, during the general election campaign, that it’s “very important” to protect them. Does his government care? Not likely. Labour’s eagerness to suck up to Stonewall and Pink News in Opposition hardly suggested the party could be trusted with women’s rights.
Is anyone really surprised?
From the Telegraph:
The Government has said transgender women can use some single-sex spaces intended for females.
Sir Keir Starmer previously said it was very important to “protect female-only spaces” in a debate with Rishi Sunak during the general election campaign.
However, Labour has now been accused of breaking that pledge after releasing a response on a consultation, which confirmed that public and private bodies can write policies that allow transgender women into female-only places….
Branding the response “deeply worrying”, Claire Coutinho, the shadow minister for women, told The Telegraph that this was “yet another promise” that Labour had “broken to the electorate”.
