Labour MP Stella Creasy has faced criticism after attending a gender-segregated Muslim parade in her Walthamstow constituency and defending the arrangement, having previously attacked London's Garrick Club for excluding women. Creasy shared a video of the Milad Al Nabi march, a celebration of the Prophet Mohammed's birthday, which showed only male participants; when questioned about the absence of women, she confirmed they had been segregated and said "many religions do have separate events and structures." The episode has drawn accusations of hypocrisy given her past stance on single-sex institutions, raising questions about consistency in her feminist politics.

Creasy, who calls herself a "proud feminist," later posted a separate video of local Muslim women, describing them as future professionals and community leaders and insisting the event was open to all. Columnist Jenni Russell and others pressed her publicly over the segregation, while Conservative shadow minister Joy Morrissey accused Creasy of "divisive and exclusionary" behaviour, contrasting it with her support for transgender access to women's toilets. The row echoes a 2022 controversy in which Creasy criticised the 200-year-old Garrick Club as an "old boys' club" for barring female members.