Mick Hartley

They can’t be trusted to protect women. They still see trans as that poor minority in need of protection – the latest in the civil rights battle after race, women, and gays. If they still don’t get it now, after the Supreme Court ruling and all, they probably never will. They’re not, like so many on the left, people who like to change their minds. Once they’ve decided on something, despite what new evidence emerges, they stick to it. They think it means being true to their principles, when it usually signals stupidity.

First Lucy Powell:

The new trans rules are “not right” and should be reviewed by MPs, one of Labour’s deputy leadership candidates has said.

Lucy Powell appeared to criticise the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guidance on transgender issues, which has advised that workplaces provide protected single-sex spaces.

The Manchester MP is odds-on favourite to replace Angela Rayner as Labour’s deputy leader next month, and has pledged to offer a critical voice on the Government from outside the Cabinet.

But she doesn’t understand the law.

And now Lisa Nandy:

Trans women should be able to compete in some women’s sports despite the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of gender, Lisa Nandy has suggested.

The Culture Secretary said there were some sports in which it was “perfectly possible to include everybody” and still keep competition both safe and fair.

Women’s sports have been warned that they will face legal action if they fail to ban trans players after the Supreme Court ruled in April that a woman was defined as a “biological female”….

But Ms Nandy said the issue of trans athletes competing alongside biological women was still not clear cut, despite the April ruling.

Oh yes it is. Trans women are men, and men have no business in women’s sport. It’s as clear cut as it’s possible to get in this complicated world. Nice-but-dim Nandy, alas, can’t see it.