Transcript, any errors mine:
Anas Sarwar: ‘With the Cass review, we’ve said that we believe that the Cass Review recommendations should be implemented in full. I’m someone that believes that we should be removing some of the indignities and [indistinct - inhumanities?] of the process of obtaining a gender recognition certificate, but at the same time, we have to recognise there are grenuie concerns around the protection of singel sex spaces based on biological sex -
[interruption from interviewer]
AS: ‘there are rights that women rightly want to see protected and advanced’
Interviewer: On that very simple question, can a woman have a penis?
AS: ‘It’s very simple, a man has a penis, a woman has a vagina, and I think the idea that we get into that level of politics is part of the reason why I think people move so distant away from politics. I think if you’re having a separate conversation around the process in which someone obtains a GRC, that’s a very different argument, but biological sex, there are hard fought rights for women that must be protected, we have to protect single sex spaces, based on biological sex, but I think there’s also a separate conversation around how someone obtains a GRC and how we make that process as humane as possible’.