New Victims' Commissioner Beta Baird:
"As well as understanding victims’ needs, Baird has concerns that proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act, could create further victims.
A move that would see trans rights updated to allow people to self-identify as a gender has been highly controversial.
Baird shares the concerns of feminist campaigners that women-only spaces could be left more vulnerable as a result, but says the debate has become bitter and stunted.
“It presents problems for trans people and for women too,” she said. “The animosity that has sprung up between feminist activists and trans activists is not productive. I hope there is a way of negotiating a sound way forward.
“There must be risks of [a self-ID system] creating victims. It is not central to my agenda but I am watching with care.”