They’re just falling all over themselves in the rush to keep women down.

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to stop a plot by ministers to thwart last week’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women.

Labour ministers and MPs will this week meet to discuss how to promote trans rights in the wake of the landmark judgment. They are understood to be planning to take their demands to the equalities minister.

The plot emerged in leaked WhatsApp messages from a group chat of Labour MPs, including ministers Sir Chris Bryant and Dame Angela Eagle. Both railed against comments made by Baroness Falkner, the equality watchdog chief, who said the ruling meant trans women would be banned from women’s single-sex spaces. They urged colleagues to meet them to discuss their concerns.

Because we can’t allow women to meet without men present.

Downing Street refused to take any action against the two ministers, claiming they were not trying to undermine the judgment.

Even though that’s what they said they were doing.

While the Government has said it welcomed Wednesday’s ruling, Sir Keir has not made any statement about the ruling. Nor has he commented on Saturday’s vandalism of a suffragist statue by trans activists during a mass rally.

His stance will raise fears that Labour may introduce extra safeguards for trans people that will circumvent the ruling, which found that a woman was defined by biological sex, not gender identity.

Well, his “stance” combined with his previous complete failure to lift one tiny finger to support women on this issue.

Dame Angela warned that official guidance that would follow the ruling could be “catastrophic” for transgender people and criticised Lady Falkner, who chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which will publish the relevant guidance for how trans people should navigate single-sex facilities.

On Thursday, Lady Falkner had said the ruling clearly meant that trans women could not use single-sex female facilities or compete in women’s sports. Hailing it for bringing “clarity”, she told the BBC: “Single-sex services like changing rooms must be based on biological sex. If a male person is allowed to use a women-only service or facility, it isn’t any longer single-sex.”

Writing on the WhatsApp group of LGBT+ Labour MPs, Dame Angela said: “Let’s meet about this when we get back from Easter recess to decide a way forwards. The ruling is not as catastrophic as it seems, but the EHRC guidance might be and there are already signs that some public bodies are overreacting.”

Dame Angela thinks it would be “catastrophic” for women to have their own facilities and sports.