Bridget Phillipson refused eight times to say which loo she thinks a trans woman with a penis should use.
She was asked to clarify her stance on women’s bathrooms, after suggesting earlier this week that trans women should be able to use them.
But this morning, she was unwilling to say.
Asked for the first time on LBC, she said: “I believe that single-sex spaces are important… My background before I became a politician was managing a women’s refuge.
“So I understand how important it is that women have access to single-sex spaces, have that safety, that dignity, that opportunity to speak openly about traumatic events in their lives.”
She was then presented with a specific scenario about a trans woman with a penis needing to use a public lavatory in a restaurant, to which she said that businesses should provide “a range of different options” – even when the presenter specified that the hypothetical restaurant only had male and female bathrooms.
Philippson repeatedly emphasised the need for “common sense solutions” and “being practical”.
She added: “I wouldn’t want that person to feel at risk, Equally, I wouldn’t want biological women to feel intimidated.”
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Bridget Phillipson refuses eight times to say which toilet trans women should use
Bridget Phillipson refused eight times to say which loo she thinks a trans woman with a penis should use
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Bridget Phillipson refused eight times to say which loo she thinks a trans woman with a penis should use.
She was asked to clarify her stance on women’s bathrooms, after suggesting earlier this week that trans women should be able to use them.
But this morning, she was unwilling to say.
Asked for the first time on LBC, she said: “I believe that single-sex spaces are important… My background before I became a politician was managing a women’s refuge.
“So I understand how important it is that women have access to single-sex spaces, have that safety, that dignity, that opportunity to speak openly about traumatic events in their lives.”
She was then presented with a specific scenario about a trans woman with a penis needing to use a public lavatory in a restaurant, to which she said that businesses should provide “a range of different options” – even when the presenter specified that the hypothetical restaurant only had male and female bathrooms.
Philippson repeatedly emphasised the need for “common sense solutions” and “being practical”.
She added: “I wouldn’t want that person to feel at risk, Equally, I wouldn’t want biological women to feel intimidated.”
