I believe fundamentally in people's right toself-ID. [...] I think that crimes that are recorded should be recorded as that person wishes, having gone through that process, received support and self-identified. I think trans women are women, I think trans men are men, so I think they should be accommodated in a prison of their choosing.
At a hustings in Glasgow during Nandy's campaign for the Labour Party leadership, as cited in Susan Dalgety"Why counting dead women is a necessary task",The Scotsman (22 February 2020)
The immediate issue in Susan Dalgety's article is the recording of crimes by violent men against women, as though the perpetuators werebiological women, and the negative impact on the development of effective policies.
No, I don't. I care deeply about safe spaces for women. I know from personal experience there is a generation of women who fought very hard to create and protect safe spaces, that it matters. Where you have women who want to have a genuine debate about how better to protect them, it's a very welcome debate. But that has to start with the recognition that trans men are men, trans women are women and that they exist.
Nandy was asked if she regretted giving her support to a pledge card issued byLabour Campaign for Trans Rights advocating the expulsion of Labour Party members with "bigoted, transphobic views" describingWoman's Place UK (which campaign's for the preservation of single-sex spaces) as a "hate group".
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