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Kemi Badenoch said the law needed to change to protect single-sex spaces because there are more male predators than there are trans people.

The equalities minister told MPs that men were exploiting loopholes in the law to gain access to single-sex spaces such as women’s lavatories and changing rooms.

Mrs Badenoch warned trans activists against causing a “chilling effect” by dubbing those such as her who raised concerns as transphobic.

And on whether parents should be told by schools that their child was socially transitioning, she said: “Starting with the premise that parents are a danger to children is a wrong one.”

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During an appearance at the Commons women and equalities select committee, Mrs Badenoch said: “For many years, many transgender people were living their lives peacefully, nobody had an issue.

“It wasn’t until predators started exploiting the loopholes that we are having to tighten this.

“It is the behaviour of people who are choosing to exploit rights given to transgender people - because the definition is very loose - that we are now having to look at what we can do in order to protect women and children who are the most vulnerable in those single-sex spaces.

“It is not easy: the ideal situation would have been if the predators had not chosen to exploit this loophole.

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