Watch: Stonewall chair grilled on transgender issues

It’s been a difficult time for the gay rights charity Stonewall. Chief Executive Nancy Kelley is due to leave her job next week, after a torturous year that saw the Allison Bailey case and numerous employers withdraw from the charity’s ‘Diversity Champions’ scheme. Iain Anderson, Stonewall’s Chair, was probably hoping to put all this behind him when he sat down with Sky’s Beth Rigby for an in-depth interview on the charity’s work.

Unfortunately for Anderson, Rigby raised some of the thorniest issues with regards to trans rights, including elite sports and single-sex spaces. Asked about trans swimmer Lia Thomas beating two biological women on a podium, he replied ‘We’re working our way through on this’ and ‘We want everyone to play their full part in society.’ He suggested that he would be open to engaging with organisations that take a more skeptical view of trans rights, telling Rigby: ‘My challenge to the LGB Alliance, my challenge to those that don’t agree with me is, is there an opportunity to come together.’