If Keir Starmer had hoped that last week’s U-turn on gender recognition changes would stem bitter divisions on the subject within the UK Labour party, reflected across the country, he was wrong.
In an attempt to defuse an ugly culture war campaign threatened by the Tories in the next general election, Anneliese Dodds set out the revised policy in the Guardian last Monday: reaffirming Labour’s commitment to make it easier for transgender people to transition while maintaining protections for single-sex spaces.
