Why Labour keeps floundering on the trans toilet question

Labour politicians who cannot give straight answers on sex and gender will need to get their thinking caps on, assuming they find themselves in charge on Friday morning. The ‘what is a woman?’ question was just the start. The debate that has now moved on to toilets – and Labour needs to come up with some answers and fast.

Last week Bridget Phillipson was put on the spot; yesterday it was Jonathan Ashworth; today it was Keir Starmer. For a journalist, this is easy meat. The warm up is optional, ‘Do you think that women have a right to single-sex spaces, and will you uphold the Equality Act that protects the single-sex exceptions?’ Who is going to say no to that, after all. 

But then comes the question that floored Ashworth, ‘A trans woman, in a restaurant that only has a man and a woman’s toilet facilities, which does she use?’ 

'A trans woman in a restaurant that only has a man and a woman's toilet facilities, which does she use?'
'I'm not a toilet monitor.'