TRANS women are “by definition” not women, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting said today.
Commenting for the first time since last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Streeting said the court was right.
Sir Keir Starmer finally admitted yesterday he had changed his mind to agree with the court’s definition that sex is defined by biology at birth.
Top politicians and feminist campaigners hailed the landmark decision as a “victory for common sense”.
But the PM was blasted by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch who claimed he spent years dithering over how to define a woman and only made a decision following the ruling.
And today, she accused the PM of “having no balls” after his years of dithering.
Meanwhile Mr Streeting told The Sun: “By definition trans women are trans women.
Cowardly Keir Starmer has fuelled trans activist bullies
By Julie Bindel
IT has taken almost a week for our Prime Minister to comment on the most important legal decision since he became PM, namely the Supreme Court’s clarification of the law, confirming that “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act means biological sex.
Today, Sir Keir Starmer (who once claimed that one in a thousand women has a penis) was asked by a local news channel whether he believed a trans woman was a woman.
He replied: “I think the Supreme Court has answered that question.”
Pressed to say whether that meant he did not believe a trans woman is a woman, he said: “A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.”
As if this man – who is a senior barrister – needed a court to tell him what a woman is.
His refusal to stand with common sense and women’s rights has given fuel to the trans activists who’ve spent the past few years bullying almost everyone into submission.
Now that the highest court in the land has confirmed what the law actually says, these extremists have taken to the streets, showing their true colours.
Protests held around the country since the legal decision have put the demonstrators’ misogyny on full display.
One sign at the protest in London’s Parliament Square targeted trans-exclusionary radical feminists and showed a hangman’s gallows alongside the slogan “The only good TERF is a - - - - one”. (Presumably, the mystery word is spelt DEAD).
Another showed an image of a man with a bloodied knife stuck in his eye.
It read: “Are you a transphobe? Why not try a D.I.Y. LOBOTOMY.”
Others revealed an obsessive focus on toilets, with #PeeForMe and slogans like: “Trans women are women.
“If you don’t like that, go s**t somewhere else.”
Also in evidence were calls to defecate “on a pile of Harry Potter books” or “on the head of another TERF”, as well as “Kill JK Rowling” and “Bring back witch burning: JK Rowling”.
Numerous statues were daubed with graffiti before thousands of trans rights protesters marched through central London on Saturday.
And despite the overt and explicit threats of violence to women, the main concern expressed by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was about statues: “Criminal damage like this, including to statues of men and women who fought for freedom and justice, like Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Millicent Fawcett, is disgraceful — it is right the police are investigating.”
Leaked WhatsApp messages by certain Labour ministers included an attack on Baroness Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Like villagers with pitchforks screaming: “Burn the witch”, the words on the lips of the mob on London’s streets this weekend were “Trans Power”.
A power that has carried them far, causing women standing up for their rights to be arrested, sacked, kicked out of college, shunned from LGBT groups, ostracised and vilified in friendship groups.
That power was handed to them on a silver platter by the idiots in every single political party.
When it comes to contentious issues, we know that Starmer has no backbone.
He betrayed Rosie Duffield, refusing to intervene against the horrendous bullying and threats of violence she endured because of her stance defending women on the issue.
And in the end, he — and the Labour Party — lost her.
Cowards like Starmer have allowed themselves to be bullied into capitulation.
Violent rage
Middle-class progressives were happy to throw the rights of both women and LGB people away as they bleated about how trans women (biological men) were the most vulnerable, oppressed minority on the planet.
Hook, line and sinker, they fell for the lie that the oppressors were women, feminists.
Even though I voted Labour last year — because I believe in a welfare state — I’m not surprised the party has betrayed women in this way.
Nevertheless, we are owed a huge apology.
Starmer has had so much to say about Netflix show Adolescence and so-called “toxic masculinity” yet not a word about the heterosexual men screaming in our faces because they can no longer shut down our events when we keep them out.
The past few days have been like a condensation of the past 21 years, with the violent rage of men claiming to be women an indication that trans activists never expected anyone to dare stop them invading our spaces and stealing our rights.
The fact that Starmer caved on an issue so pivotal to the rights of 51 per cent of the planet proves he has no guts, no backbone and no integrity.
By waiting for the Supreme Court to tell him what a woman is, Starmer has allowed trans activists to bully the majority of Britain’s institutions, and its citizens, into capitulating to them.
As a result, women have suffered greatly — and he must not be let off the hook.
“I have always and will always respect people’s identities and I have no trouble whatsoever referring to trans women by their names, referring to them as women as shorthand, or using pronouns like she and her.
“I don’t think that’s an issue and I think the vast majority of people in our country would also want to be respectful in that way.
“But by definition they’re not the same as biological women.
“There are important differences and that is particularly important in a health context.
“It should not be beyond the wits of all of us in the country to live in a world where women are protected and respected and their rights upheld, and so are trans people, and that’s the approach the Government’s taking.”
Mr Streeting dramatically ditched his hardline stance on gender on The Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots last year.
The u-turn came as he admitted it was a mistake to insist all trans women are women.
Mr Streeting said he “takes criticism on the chin” for previously arguing people should “get over” concerns – admitting “there are lots of complexities”.
It comes after Sir Keir finally broke his silence on the judgement yesterday declaring he welcomes the “clarity” it brings and stating that a woman is an “adult female”.
The PM previously argued “trans women are women” and even said that one in every thousand women can have a penis.
But back from his Easter holidays, Sir Keir said that “a woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear”.
However, Harry Potter author JK Rowling hit out against the PM despite his latest comments.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, she said: “Imagine being such a coward you can only muster the courage to tell the truth once the Supreme Court has ruled on what the truth is.”
In his speech, Sir Keir said: “I actually welcome the judgement because I think it gives real clarity.
“It allows those that have got to draw up guidance to be really clear about what that guidance should say.
“So I think it’s important that we see the judgement for what it is. It’s a welcome step forward.
“It’s real clarity in an area where we did need clarity, I’m pleased it’s come about.
“We need to move and make sure that we now ensure that all guidance is in the right place according to that judgement.”
Today, a fired up Ms Badenoch slammed Sir Keir for “bending the knee” to “every passing fad” as she blasted his past failure to back the protection of single-sex spaces.
She also hit out at the PM as he refused to apologise to ex-Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who was “hounded” from the party over her gender critical views.
Ms Badenoch said: “”This is a choice between a Conservative party that stood up for common sense and a Labour Party that bends the knee to every passing fad.
“This is a question about moral courage, about doing the right thing, even when it is difficult.
“The truth is he doesn’t have the balls.
“The Prime Minister only tells people what they want to hear.
“He is a weather vane who twists in the wind. He cheered an ideology that denied safe spaces to women and girls because he thought it was cool to do so.”
Sir Keir Starmer slammed by campaigners
SIR Keir Starmer has been slammed by campaigners and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for spending years refusing to define a woman.
The PM — who welcomed the Supreme Court judgment — was accused of hypocrisy for previously tying himself in knots over the issue.
In 2022 he declared: “Trans women are women.”
The following year he tweaked his position to say a woman is an “adult female”.
And in 2024 Sir Keir, drew ridicule for insisting 99.9 per cent of women “don’t have a penis” — meaning one in every thousand do.
Ms Badenoch blasted: “The era of Keir Starmer telling us some women have penises has come to an end. Hallelujah!”
Ex-Labour MP Rosie Duffield, now sitting as an independent, joked she wanted to buy him an “I told you so” T-shirt.
She added: “But I would need a different one for every moment of every day.”
A Labour source blamed ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn for the party’s disarray.
The source said: “This just shows why it was so important that Keir hauled the Labour Party back to the commonsense position the public take on these sorts of issues.
“He gradually moved the party from one that took the activist position to a serious, sensible one that protected women’s spaces while allowing for respectful debate.
“It’s one of the reasons the country felt Labour was safe to elect just a few years after the disaster of 2019.”
Despite the defiant statement it took only a few hours for Sir Keir’s wokest MPs to hit out at the decision.