Ed Davey: It is possible for a woman to have a penis?
Sir Ed Davey today said women can “quite clearly” have a penis.
The Liberal Democrat leader waded into the row over trans rights during a phone in on LBC with presenter Nick Ferrari.
Sir Ed was responding to a caller who asked him to define what a woman is.
He said: “The truth is, the vast majority of people whose biological sex is a woman when they were birth, they feel they’re women.
“So they feel their gender the same as at birth. But there’s this very small number of people who don’t feel like that. And the law has recognised them for over 20 years now.
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“So they feel their gender the same as at birth. But there’s this very small number of people who don’t feel like that. And the law has recognised them for over 20 years now.
“So this is not a new issue. I know sometimes it seems it, but the law has dealt with this in the right way.
“The Equality Act is there to, you know, to allow there to be single-sex spaces so people can have those single sex spaces, according to the law under the Equality Act.
“And what I want to do is answer your question directly as I’ve done, but also to try and take some of the heat out of the question, because there’s a small number of people who, actually, they have a tough time.
“They’re harassed, discriminated against, real serious mental health problems.
“And I think we need to manage this and think about it and debate it with a bit more maturity and a bit more compassion.”
Pressed by Mr Ferrari if a woman can have a penis, Sir Ed added: “The vast majority of people will have the same gender as their biological sex, but a small number won’t.”
Mr Ferrari again asked: “So a woman can have a penis?”
Sir Ed said: “Well, quite clearly.”
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer last month faced ridicule for suggesting one in 1,000 women have a penis.
The Labour leader said: “For 99.9 percent of women, it is completely biological… of course they haven’t got a penis.”
But Rishi Sunak dismissed Sir Keir’s claim that some women can have penises.
The Prime Minister said: “We should always have compassion and understanding and tolerance for those who are thinking about their gender.
“Of course we should. We are a compassionate and understanding society and we will always remember that.
“But when it comes to these issues of protecting women’s rights and women’s spaces, I think the issue of biological sex is fundamentally important when we think about those questions.
“As a general operating principle for me, biological sex is vitally fundamentally important to these questions, we can’t forget that.
“That’s why we need to make sure when it comes to women’s health, women’s sports or spaces that we are protecting those rights.”
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