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PM Keir Starmer's 5 days of silence after Supreme Court gender ruling on what a woman is
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...uling.html
EXCERPTS: Sir Keir Starmer was last night under mounting pressure to break his silence over the Supreme Court’s landmark gender ruling. [...] Sir Keir’s silence sparked fresh fears that the Government may allow the ruling - that men who change gender are not legally women - to be undone, with several bodies already vowing to challenge it.
While the Government said it welcomed last Wednesday’s judgement, the PM, who was holidaying at the time of the decision but is understood to have now returned home, is yet to comment. This is despite the huge significance to public life and the thousands of organisations affected up and down the country, including major public bodies such as the NHS.
Last night there were calls for Sir Keir to give his full backing to the ruling with a statement when Parliament returns from recess tomorrow (Tues). Marion Calder, co-founder of For Women Scotland, which won the historic court victory, said it was ‘astonishing’ to see ministers discussing ways to ‘circumvent’ the ruling.
[...] Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at human rights charity Sex Matters, which submitted evidence in the Supreme Court case, said: ‘If neither the Prime Minister nor the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities makes a statement to this effect on the first day back after Parliamentary recess, something is seriously wrong.’
And Caroline Ffiske, from Conservatives for Women, added: ‘The government’s role now is to ensure that thousands of service providers across the country understand the law and implement it correctly, undoing years of confusion and bad guidance. If Labour won’t do this, grassroots women will have to do it themselves. But they won’t forget the betrayal.’
[...] Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a parent-led campaign group concerned about the rise in young people changing gender, said:
‘These ministers need to decide if they’re in the right job. Are they trans activists or are they members of parliament elected to represent all of their constituents? The hypocrisy of members of the party that calls for “an end to the culture wars” is exposed here. This is why so many women have lost faith with Labour. How can we expect them to uphold women’s basic rights if ministers consider that the law protecting those rights is “appalling”?’
[...] Robert Jenrick, the Tories’ justice spokesman, said: ‘Where is the Prime Minister? [...] It’s high time he displayed some leadership and made clear what a woman is. [...] Starmer needs to choose whether he’s on the side of women or rogue ministers and radical trans activists.’
Former Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who quit the party after Sir Keir sidelined her for saying that only women have a cervix, said: ‘It would be nice to hear from the Prime Minister following the Supreme Court’s ruling. Those people, mostly women, who have lost their jobs because their organisations, including many Government departments, subscribed to [LGBT rights charity] Stonewall’s interpretation of the law instead of the reality of the Equality Act, need to hear that the Government now expects them to abide by the judgement and adjust their practices to protect women’s sex-based rights. Therefore, he also needs to make a clear statement about his own MPs and Ministers who appear to be plotting against this judgement. Women are waiting.’
In 2022, Sir Keir insisted that ‘trans women are women’ and that it was wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’. In a newspaper interview in April 2023, he faced a backlash after claiming that 99.9 per cent of women do not have a penis - implying that one in a thousand women do.
Later that year, following a backlash, he said he agreed with Tony Blair that men have a penis and women a vagina.... (MORE - missing details)
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PM Keir Starmer's 5 days of silence after Supreme Court gender ruling on what a woman is
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...uling.html
EXCERPTS: Sir Keir Starmer was last night under mounting pressure to break his silence over the Supreme Court’s landmark gender ruling. [...] Sir Keir’s silence sparked fresh fears that the Government may allow the ruling - that men who change gender are not legally women - to be undone, with several bodies already vowing to challenge it.
While the Government said it welcomed last Wednesday’s judgement, the PM, who was holidaying at the time of the decision but is understood to have now returned home, is yet to comment. This is despite the huge significance to public life and the thousands of organisations affected up and down the country, including major public bodies such as the NHS.
Last night there were calls for Sir Keir to give his full backing to the ruling with a statement when Parliament returns from recess tomorrow (Tues). Marion Calder, co-founder of For Women Scotland, which won the historic court victory, said it was ‘astonishing’ to see ministers discussing ways to ‘circumvent’ the ruling.
[...] Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at human rights charity Sex Matters, which submitted evidence in the Supreme Court case, said: ‘If neither the Prime Minister nor the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities makes a statement to this effect on the first day back after Parliamentary recess, something is seriously wrong.’
And Caroline Ffiske, from Conservatives for Women, added: ‘The government’s role now is to ensure that thousands of service providers across the country understand the law and implement it correctly, undoing years of confusion and bad guidance. If Labour won’t do this, grassroots women will have to do it themselves. But they won’t forget the betrayal.’
[...] Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a parent-led campaign group concerned about the rise in young people changing gender, said:
‘These ministers need to decide if they’re in the right job. Are they trans activists or are they members of parliament elected to represent all of their constituents? The hypocrisy of members of the party that calls for “an end to the culture wars” is exposed here. This is why so many women have lost faith with Labour. How can we expect them to uphold women’s basic rights if ministers consider that the law protecting those rights is “appalling”?’
[...] Robert Jenrick, the Tories’ justice spokesman, said: ‘Where is the Prime Minister? [...] It’s high time he displayed some leadership and made clear what a woman is. [...] Starmer needs to choose whether he’s on the side of women or rogue ministers and radical trans activists.’
Former Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who quit the party after Sir Keir sidelined her for saying that only women have a cervix, said: ‘It would be nice to hear from the Prime Minister following the Supreme Court’s ruling. Those people, mostly women, who have lost their jobs because their organisations, including many Government departments, subscribed to [LGBT rights charity] Stonewall’s interpretation of the law instead of the reality of the Equality Act, need to hear that the Government now expects them to abide by the judgement and adjust their practices to protect women’s sex-based rights. Therefore, he also needs to make a clear statement about his own MPs and Ministers who appear to be plotting against this judgement. Women are waiting.’
In 2022, Sir Keir insisted that ‘trans women are women’ and that it was wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’. In a newspaper interview in April 2023, he faced a backlash after claiming that 99.9 per cent of women do not have a penis - implying that one in a thousand women do.
Later that year, following a backlash, he said he agreed with Tony Blair that men have a penis and women a vagina.... (MORE - missing details)
RELATED (scivillage): Statue of feminist icon defaced during transgender activist protest
