PCC blasts transgender lobby

SURREY’S new police and crime commissioner has accused the Stonewall gay rights lobby group of promoting a dangerous transgender ideology that puts women at risk, writes Josephine Bartosch.

Lisa Townsend says she has been inundated with messages from women frightened that female-only spaces, including women’s refuges and toilets, are being opened up to people who identify as women even if they have male genitalia. She is demanding that Surrey police stop employing Stonewall.

She said: ‘Police forces, in an attempt to correct many of the wrongs committed in the past, are being naive. Stonewall is a wellfunded lobby group for a dangerous ideology that threatens the safety of our women and girls.’