Labour leader Keir Starmer has issued another troubling statement on trans rights, this time saying trans women do not have the right to use women-only spaces, even if they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC). Trans rights have been used a “political football to divide people”, with single-sex spaces and the definition of sex in the 2010 Equality Act wielded as culture-war topics, during the six-week-long general election campaign. In a new interview with The Times, Keir Starmer was presented with a question posed by author JK Rowling about whether trans people who have transitioned and have a gender-recognition certificate can use female-only toilets.