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A large poster which was removed from a billboard in Liverpool after a transphobia row has appeared in Leeds.

The highly controversial poster includes the Google definition of the word woman.

It was placed on a billboard in Liverpool last month, during the Labour Party's annual conference by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who is head of the Standing for Women campaign group.

However, it was then removed after LGBT+ groups said it was part of a transphobic campaign.

A digital version of the poster has now appeared on a billboard on York Road, Leeds, and the Standing for Women campaign group has taken responsibility for it.

Standing for Women says erecting a poster in Leeds was 'phase six' of its campaign.

The group's website states: "This campaign is to focus specifically on the word woman and other female language that clearly defines women and our rights.

"The purpose of this campaign is to raise funds for targeted advertising.

"Throughout the legal framework of women's sex based rights and protections we use the word woman.

"It is essential that this word is retained to mean 'adult human female' only. Without this word all of our rights and protections are lost."

Ms Keen-Minshull added: "This campaigns aim is to pull this debate into the public consciousness, to highlight that this is not a small fringe issue but an all out assault on women where even our own words are criminalised."

The group is campaigning while the government is asking people to have their say on how best to reform the Gender Recognition Act.

"The city is so welcoming and supportive of the diverse communities we’re home to"

Rob Wilson, founder of Angels Freedom of Leeds, says the LGBT+ community is not impressed with the poster.

He said: "This handful of small minded people are spending huge amounts of money that would be better spent supporting the resources that they’re claiming to be campaigning for.

"Leeds is home to the largest regular Trans social event in the UK because the city is so welcoming and supportive of the diverse communities we’re home to."

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The poster was put up around two months after penis-shaped stickers featuring the statement 'Women don't have penises' appeared around the city.

Kong Outdoor, the company which owns the Leeds billboard, has been approached for a comment.

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