Labour chair says fellow MP is WRONG to argue women can be born with penises

Fresh Labour infighting broke out over trans issues today as the party chair contradicted a fellow MP on whether ‘some women were born with penises’.

In an interview this morning, frontbencher Anneliese Dodds was challenged over whether she agreed with Stella Creasy.    

‘Well, no, I don’t agree with her. Biological females obviously aren’t, of course there are also trans-women who have made the transition in their gender but sex is not the same as gender,’ she told Sky News‘ Ridge on Sunday.

‘But I would say that obviously I have a huge amount of respect for my colleague, Stella Creasey, she has done a huge amount of campaigning for women but on that issue around biology, I do have a different opinion.’ 

Ms Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, set out her stance yesterday, complaining that she had been branded a ‘bad feminist’ for opposing Harry Potter author JK Rowling – who has voiced concerns that biological women are being put at risk in favour of trans rights.

In an interview, Anneliese Dodds (left) was challenged over whether she agreed with Stella Creasy (right) that ‘some women were born with penises’

Commenting on Ms Dodds’ intervention, Ms Creasy tweeted that it is ‘common sense’ to respect whether someone is a man or a woman

Speaking to the Telegraph to discuss her revelation this month that she had been threatened with gang rape at university, the mother-of-two described how she believed the word woman should be defined.

She said: ‘Do I think some women were born with penises? Yes. But they are now women and I respect that.’

Ms Creasy added: ‘JK Rowling doesn’t support self-identification whereas I do. Of course biological sex is real – it’s just not the end of the conversation.

‘I am somebody who would say that a trans woman is an adult human female.’

Ms Creasy went on to describe the current laws which require two doctors to decide whether someone is a woman as ‘bonkers’.

Commenting on Ms Dodds’ intervention, Ms Creasy tweeted: ‘Fwiw didn’t say sex WAS the same as gender either – there’s a legal debate about terminology, and a need for categories to help inform discussions and research, and then there’s a common sense where we respect someone is a man or woman and address them as such.’ 

Attorney General Suella Braverman has praised JK Rowling for her views on the transgender issue, saying schools should not have to pander to pupils who see themselves in a different birth gender.

The Cabinet member said the author was a ‘heroine’ for campaigning for female-only spaces for those born women and added that schools should be able to treat all children by their birth gender.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has voiced concerns that biological women are being put at risk in favour of trans rights and regularly tweets about the trans debate online