Women must not be allowed to meet without male supervision.

A row has broken out over an event’s single-sex attendance policy.

Rosie Hayes told the BBC multiple venues in Brighton had cancelled or stopped hosting trauma-healing classes organised by her group Sisters Heal for the victims of sexual assault, rape and domestic abuse, which were limited to “biological women only”.

Indeed. Women must be forced to talk about their sexual trauma in the presence of men. They have no right to keep such exciting chat to themselves.

Terf Watch Brighton, which describes itself as a grassroots collective of journalists reporting on “anti-trans efforts”, said it was not aware of any groups or networks coordinating opposition to Sisters Heal. It added that it had not contacted the venues or shared information about those events on its platforms, although it had reported on social media about separate activities of Sisters Heal.

“The groups run and advocated for by Sisters Heal and similar organisations are discriminatory to trans women, and deliberately divisive,” Terf Watch Brighton told the BBC.

Dropping the sarcasm, permit me to point out that women are allowed to meet without men present. It’s not “discriminatory” for underdogs to meet with no overdogs present.

Mr Terf Watch went on to say:

“Their purpose is always, at least in part, to push trans women out of society – it is unreasonable not to expect complaints and political opposition.”

No, it’s not. It’s to stop men who call themselves women pushing themselves on women and into all of women’s spaces and institutions. Trans women are men, and way too many of them love to bully women.