Vogue Williams has blasted Dame Jenni Murray for her “stupid” comment about transgender women.

The Woman's Hour host, 66, suggested that men who have undergone sex change operations are not “real women”.

"I think that's a ridiculous, narrow-minded statement. I can't understand when I hear things like that," she told Press Association.

Williams – who investigates gender dysphoria in her new TV series – took aim at Murray’s comments and warned her to be more careful with her opinions.

She said: “That's exactly what is wrong with the world, people like her are what's wrong with the world. [It creates] friction amongst people.

“It's a really stupid thing to say and she should be more careful with her words to be honest.”

Murray made the comments in a piece for the Sunday Times magazine titled: “Jenni Murray: Be trans, be proud – but don’t call yourself a ‘real woman’. Can someone who has lived as a man, with all the privilege that entails, really lay claim to womanhood? It takes more than a sex change and makeup.”

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Williams said it was wrong to suggest that if someone has grown up as a man they can’t know what it’s like to be a woman.

"They haven't lived the life of a man because they've never felt like a man,” she said.

“The people who've transitioned have never felt like the gender that they were assigned at birth so they've never, ever felt like a man, so what she's saying doesn't make sense.”

Murray's comments were also condemned by Rachel Cohen, campaigns director of Stonewall, who said:“Whether you are trans or not, your identity is yours alone. I do not question your identity, Jenni, and in return I wouldn’t expect you to question mine – or anyone else’s. What right would you have to do so? My experiences of being a woman are undoubtedly different to yours. However, their differences do not make them in any way less valid.

“Trans women have every right to have their identity and experiences respected, too. They are women – just like you and me – and their sense of their gender is as engrained in their identity as yours or mine.”

Vogue Williams Investigates is on Quest Red tonight at 10pm