THREAD: The Labour Party manifesto seems to have given rise to a lot of anger amongst trans activists and allies. I do not understand their anger. For years they have been telling us that they believe trans women are women, and that trans men are men, and that this means 1/

sex-based rights and exemptions under the Equality Act do not prevent trans women accessing women’s spaces or trans men accessing men’s spaces even when it is proportionate and legitimate to have sex-segregated spaces. Indeed the lobbying and campaigning groups (e.g. Stonewall 2/