The organiser of a lesbian speed-dating event is at the centre of a bitter transphobia storm after she specified that only “adult human females” could attend.

It comes off the back of outrage expressed by attendees of the weekly £15 per person event after trans women tried to join in.

Town planner Jenny Watson, who runs the nights in Bloomsbury, posted the ground rules on her website.

She wrote: “If you are male, please refrain from coming to the events, you are not a lesbian.”