Sir Ed Davey right now mentioned ladies can "quite clearly" have a penis.

The Liberal Democrat chief waded into the row over trans rights throughout a telephone in on LBC with presenter Nick Ferrari.

Sir Ed was responding to a caller who requested him to outline what a girl is.

He mentioned: "The truth is, the vast majority of people whose biological sex is a woman when they were birth, they feel they're women.

"So they really feel their gender the identical as at beginning. But there's this very small quantity of people that do not feel like that. And the regulation has recognised them for over 20 years now.

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"So they feel their gender the same as at birth. But there's this very small number of people who don't feel like that. And the law has recognised them for over 20 years now.

"So this isn't a brand new concern. I do know typically it appears it, however the regulation has handled this in the fitting method.

"The Equality Act is there to, you know, to allow there to be single-sex spaces so people can have those single sex spaces, according to the law under the Equality Act.

"And what I wish to do is reply your query immediately as I've executed, but additionally to try to take among the warmth out of the query, as a result of there is a small quantity of people that, truly, they've a troublesome time.

"They’re harassed, discriminated against, real serious mental health problems.

"And I feel we have to handle this and give it some thought and debate it with a bit extra maturity and a bit extra compassion."

Pressed by Mr Ferrari if a woman can have a penis, Sir Ed added: "The overwhelming majority of individuals may have the identical gender as their organic intercourse, however a small quantity will not."

Mr Ferrari again asked: "So a girl can have a penis?"

Sir Ed said: "Well, fairly clearly."

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer last month faced ridicule for suggesting one in 1,000 women have a penis.

The Labour leader said: “For 99.9 percent of women, it is completely biological... of course they haven’t got a penis.”

But Rishi Sunak dismissed Sir Keir's claim that some women can have penises.

The Prime Minister said: “We should always have compassion and understanding and tolerance for those who are thinking about their gender.

“Of course we should. We are a compassionate and understanding society and we will always remember that.

“But when it comes to these issues of protecting women’s rights and women’s spaces, I think the issue of biological sex is fundamentally important when we think about those questions.

“As a general operating principle for me, biological sex is vitally fundamentally important to these questions, we can’t forget that.

“That’s why we need to make sure when it comes to women’s health, women’s sports or spaces that we are protecting those rights.”