Letter just posted on the crowdfunder which has apparently been sent to the Independent:
"Dear Sir,
On Thursday, Lily Madigan wrote about her experience in the Labour Party and her opposition to Jennifer James’ campaign to protect female representation in the party.
I’m also a member of the Labour Party and I also happen to be a trans woman, though that is unimportant when I am campaigning with my local party to re-elect our Labour councillor.
I know that I’m not really a woman. Women are female and I am male, but that matters little in my day-to-day life. The law lets me change my legal sex, society respects the credibility of the process and I am accepted for who I am.
Tragically, the campaign for self-identification risks all that as it spawns doubt and confusion: if anyone can self-identify as a woman, what does the word woman even mean? In this strange post-modern world, self-ID cuts straight across the rights of women to organise and associate as a sex.
Transgender campaigners tell me that men would not self-identify as women just to access All Women Shortlists (AWS). I’m not convinced, especially if they want to see AWS brought into disrepute so they can abolish them. The result: those men get what they want, women lose, and trans people get the blame.
I’ve therefore given my money to Jennifer’s campaign. We must keep AWS to protect the representation of women. Trans people do need to be represented, but not at women’s expense.
But sadly, in a vicious environment where men and their trans allies conspire in a secret Facebook group to force women from the party, I must remain anonymous. My solidarity, however, is total."