November 23, 2024

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: Clearly women can have a penis

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Sir Ed Davey has said that “quite clearly” a woman can have a penis as he aligned himself with Sir Keir Starmer rather than Rishi Sunak on trans issues.

The Liberal Democrat leader backed single-sex spaces and called for “a bit more maturity” in a toxic gender debate that has at times split all the main parties.

Lib Dem support for gender self-identification has been seen by some activists as costing it the support of some voters who were considering tactically backing the party, and Davey sought to stress that for two decades the Gender Recognition Act had recognised some biological males as legally women.

“The law has dealt with this in the right way,” he told LBC, backing existing legislation protecting women-only spaces. “The

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