Baroness Fox nails it: Labour’s tactic when answering ‘what is a woman’?
"People are actually frightened of speaking out. The abdication of leadership by the Labour party in refusing to give a lead on this. They're not even arguing a strong pro trans identity. What they're doing is EVADING the question and ACCUSING people..’WHY ARE YOU BEING TRIVIAL?’, why are you talking about penises, ‘I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT BODY PARTS’. And it’s like ‘well nobody wants to talk about body parts!!’, but when a woman is reduced to … when your described as ‘chest feeders’ and all these kind of things, the ‘cervix’ becomes a matter of national conversation, ‘uteruses’ and all the rest of it. When that.. actually we used to just go men and women right? We didn’t need to do that because we all knew what we were talking about. So I think it’s the COWARDICE OF THE LABOUR LEADERSHIP who won’t actually give a lead on this. And if they’re going to come out full trans identity supporters, they’ve not argued that clearly as well, so we can critique them. Don’t try and GASLIGHT the rest of us by saying ‘WE DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT, WHY ARE YOU MAKING A FUSS?’, this is your culture wars obsession, this is a defining feature of politics, that politicians won’t say what they know to be true. And by the way, the Labour Party in particular is losing women activists hand over fist. And if you know anything about the Labour Party over the years, women activists have been the backbone of the Labour Party. They’ve been the organisers, always tougher in a way, the ones who really make things happen. The fact that those people are saying ‘I’m leaving this party, I’m not having anything to do with you, your lying, your lack of courage on this ’ And the real consequences are that women are now defensively trying to explain who they are and what their experience is as a woman. And it’s embarrassing. I don’t want to go, ‘do you know as a women, this is what happens’, do you know what I mean?”