Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has hailed the Supreme Court’s ruling that trans women are not legally women.
The Clacton MP, who long challenged so-called “woke” elements of the culture wars, said: “At last, the lunacy is over.
“The Supreme Court has declared that a women is somebody who is biologically born a women.
“An outbreak of common sense from our judiciary and something, I think, nearly the whole population will agree with.”
The Reform UK leader delivered his latest blow to Labour during his speech in NorthumberlandPA
A woman celebrates today’s landmark Supreme Court ruling
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However, top Labour MPs were accused of going silent following the ruling.
GB News approached the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and the Office for Equality & Opportunity to ask if the Minister for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Minister Safeguarding & Violence Against Women and Girls Jess Phillips were available to provide comment.
A spokesman from the Cabinet Office and the Office for Equality & Opportunity said there was no one available to comment.
Reacting to the Supreme Court ruling, a Government spokesman said: “We have always supported the protection of single-sex spaces based on biological sex.
“This ruling brings clarity and confidence, for women and service providers such as hospitals, refuges, and sports clubs.
“Single-sex spaces are protected in law and will always be protected by this Government.”
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Following the Government’s response, ex-Labour MP Rosie Duffield blasted her former colleagues over the issue of trans rights.
Duffield, who resigned the Labour Party whip just days after the party’s 2024 conference in Liverpool, told Times Radio: “It’s a load of gaslighting, to put it politely.
“I mean, the Labour Party have actively blocked women from promotion, women from standing as councillors and politicians in the last, you know, five, 10 years.
“If we’ve shown the remotest sort of sliver of questioning trans rights to enter our spaces and self-certificated or self-ID’d men to kind of infiltrate hospital wards and all the things that they’ve listed. And some women have paid a heavy price.
“I’m very lucky. I’ve got a great job and the British public put me where I am, not the Labour Party, but they’ve done everything in their power to make life as difficult for me as possible over the last few years.
“And lots of women like me who’ve given up and left politics. So it’s a bit ironic that they should say that now.”
