Last year, after several instances of grimacing in front of broadcast inquisitors who delighted in his discomfort, it appeared that Keir Starmer had finally reached a clear position on trans issues.
‘A woman is a female adult and in addition to that transwomen are women,’ he told the Times.
But here’s a thing: if transwomen are women, then clearly the serial rapist Adam Graham/Isla Bryson should be in a women’s jail – as it would be an outrage to expect a woman to serve her sentence in a men’s jail.
What’s a quick 180 on a core human rights issue between friends?
Yet Starmer’s shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has now declared that it would be entirely wrong to allow Graham/Bryson into a women’s jail, telling Radio 4 that ‘this dangerous rapist should not be in a women’s prison’. The Labour leader has not taken issue with that and Ms Cooper is not the sort to freelance by promoting unauthorised agendas in any case.
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