Another day, another Labour politician embroiled in a trans tangle. Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy have both had their awkward moments over Scotland’s controversial prisoners policy and the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. And yesterday it was the turn of the party’s attention-loving deputy leader Angela Rayner.
‘Our Ange’ is being groomed by Labour spinners as the plain-speaking Prescott to Keir Starmer’s London-lawyer Blairite shtick. But it seems that all that no-nonsense ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ spiel comes to an end when Rayner gets grilled on the subject of, er, trans rapists. For the Mancunian apparently believes that it ‘doesn’t matter’ whether or not trans double rapist Isla Bryson has a penis. Is that the official party line…?
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Rayner was asked whether the phrase ‘her penis’ made sense as she discussed whether Bryson should have been put in a women’s prison. The 31-year-old raped two women while identifying as a man, before being sent to Cornton Vale women’s prison.
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