Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy

Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010.

Quotes

• I believe fundamentally in people's right to self-ID. [...] I think that crimes that are recorded should be recorded as that person wishes, having gone through that process, received support and self-identified.
  I think trans women are women, I think trans men are men, so I think they should be accommodated in a prison of their choosing.
  • At a hustings in Glasgow during Nandy's campaign for the Labour Party leadership, as cited in Susan Dalgety "Why counting dead women is a necessary task", The Scotsman (22 February 2020)
  • The immediate issue in Susan Dalgety's article is the recording of crimes by violent men against women, as though the perpetuators were biological women, and the negative impact on the development of effective policies.

• No, I don't. I care deeply about safe spaces for women. I know from personal experience there is a generation of women who fought very hard to create and protect safe spaces, that it matters. Where you have women who want to have a genuine debate about how better to protect them, it's a very welcome debate. But that has to start with the recognition that trans men are men, trans women are women and that they exist.
  • From an interview, as cited in Sonia Sodha and Toby Helm "Lisa Nandy: 'If Labour got things broadly right, how did we lose so badly?'", The Observer (29 February 2020)
  • Nandy was asked if she regretted giving her support to a pledge card issued by Labour Campaign for Trans Rights advocating the expulsion of Labour Party members with "bigoted, transphobic views" describing Woman's Place UK (which campaign's for the preservation of single-sex spaces) as a "hate group".