What Stella Creasy gets wrong about trans rights

Stella Creasy thinks that trans-women are women and should be treated as such. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the Labour MP said:

‘Do I think some women were born with penises? Yes, but they are now women and I respect that.’

Yet what was left unspoken is the fear among those of us who were born female about what this means for women’s rights.

Creasy supports self-identification because she thinks it’s ‘bonkers’ that a man who wishes to be legally recognised as a woman has to have the backing of two doctors. But what is ‘bonkers’ is the risk that single-sex spaces, such as prisons, changing rooms, hospital wards, and domestic violence refuges, could at some stage in the future be opened up to those who were born male.

By saying that ‘some women were born with penises’, she is perpetuating the idea that these men are trapped in the wrong body and are, in fact, women.