Members of the Labour Party are evenly split on the government’s approach to trans rights following the Supreme Court’s controversial gender ruling, a new poll has revealed.

The research carried about Survation – which polled 1,304 Labour members who read LabourList and has been released in partnership with Metro – found nearly half (43 per cent) of those surveyed believe the government was correct in saying trans women should be excluded from single-sex spaces following the Supreme Court decision. Just slightly less, 40 per cent, disagreed with the government’s stance.

The Supreme Court ruling in April asserted that the legal definition of the protected characteristic of ‘sex’ in the 2010 Equality Act is based on ‘biology’ and excludes trans people.

The case, For Women Scotland Ltd v S

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