Lia Thomas, a male-to-female swimmer, became the first trans person to win a title at the highest level of American college sports this month. Sir Keir has referred to the Committee on Equality and Human Rights (EHRC) for comments he made in a newspaper interview, according to a Mail on Sunday article. “A woman is an adult woman, and in addition trans women are women, and that’s not just my point of view – that’s the law,” he told the Times when asked to define what a woman is. “It was a law through the combined effects of 2004 [Gender Recognition] Law in 2010 [Equality] Pretend. So that’s my point. It also happens to be the law in the United Kingdom. “ JK Rowling accused Sir Keir of “misinterpreting the equality law”. The author of Harry Potter, who has expressed concern about the impact that self-determination could have on women’s security, argued that the Labor Party “can no longer be counted on to defend women’s rights”. Asked by LBC about her comments, Sir Keir said: “Of course we can be called upon to defend women’s rights. “I have spent much of my professional life dealing with violence against women and girls first hand and I know from experience how important it is to fight for women and fight for equality.” While pushing for reform, he said he was a “proponent of safe havens for women”, including the exclusion of shelters for women victims of domestic violence set out in the Equality Act. Labor MP Canterbury’s Rosie Duffield decided to stay out of the party’s annual congress last year due to cyber threats from trans activists. Her belief that it may not be appropriate for trans people to have access to some secluded places, such as shelters for domestic violence, has also led to separate calls from the Labor LGBT + group to remove the whip. “I do not think the people who are threatening me are likely to harm me,” he said at the time. “They say it often and very loudly.”
