After a noticeable silence, the British prime minister has praised the Supreme Court judgement, which, in keeping with reality, legally classified women as women.
Keir Starmer’s spokesman told the Telegraph that the ruling provided ‘real clarity.’ This contrasts with his floundering interview answers on this issue. Go back to 2023 and for Starmer “99.9% of women… haven’t got a penis” and it was “not right” to say that only women have a cervix.
Moving forward, it looks as if the Supreme Court’s legal resolve has spared the blushes of the UK’s erstwhile Director of Public Prosecutions. Yet Starmer’s sluggish response on the issue lagged behind that of Bridget Phillipson, his minister for women and equalities, who is now working out what type of lavatory provision will be needed in the aftermath of the court’s ruling. (More unisex ones, apparently.)
Reportedly, other Labour figures, including cabinet members, are fuming and have taken to WhatsApp private messaging to prepare their response. Home Office minister Angela Eagle and culture minister Chris Bryant, among others, raged against the decision and discussed ways to undermine it.
Starmer, whose hair-trigger search for Jeremy Corbyn-style dissidents is usually both brisk and brutal, has done nothing. Likewise, to date Easter’s ‘trans rights’ dirty protest in London has passed by without his comment.
