A former Labour minister who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Daily Mail that "there's not a single person in the country who used to vote Labour, but backed [Prime Minister] Boris [Johnson], whom Starmer will win back by appealing to trendy teenagers and woke students with this drivel".
"A woman is a female adult, and in addition to that trans women are women, and that is not just my view - that is actually the law", Starmer argued, adding, "it has been the law through the combined effects of the 2004 [Gender Recognition] Act and the 2010 [Equality] Act. So that's my view. It also happens to be the law in the United Kingdom".
"I don't think our politicians have the slightest idea how much anger is building among women from all walks of life at the attempts to threaten and intimidate them out of speaking publicly about their own rights, their own bodies, and their own lives", Rowling stated.