An unusual scene erupted in a school hall in Hampstead, north London earlier this month. Around 200 female volunteers from the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association (KLPA) met to discuss the fate of the women-only natural bathing pond on Hampstead Heath. The meeting was genteel at the start, as one might expect of a group of middle-class women discussing the affairs of a swimming pond. But it soon descended into a ferocious shouting match. The main question on the agenda was whether transwomen – aka men – should be let in.
