Sarah Owen, a British Labour MP, was elected chairwoman of the women and equalities committee of the Commons last week. Owen has pledged to continue the committee’s work on “misogyny and violence against women and girls”. However, she also believes that women and girls include biological males.
Asked on Woman’s Hour last Thursday to define the word women, she told the BBC Radio 4 programme: “A woman to me is somebody who is going to be paid less than their male counterpart, is somebody who is going to be less safe walking down the street, is going to be somebody who faces more barriers in the workplace, in education, in the health sector.” This definition, she said, includes transwomen. Owen believes that males who identify
