'Trans women are women': Keir Starmer calls for 'respectful' debate on controversial issue and calls for legal changes to allow trans people to self-declare their gender
- Keir Starmer insisted 'trans women are women', going further than colleagues
- He called for a more 'respectful' debate on transgender issues
- Earlier this week Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper refused three times to offer a definition of a woman, saying she was 'not going to go down a rabbit hole'