Protesters wave flags and hold placards in Parliament Square in London on April 19, 2025, in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the legl definition of “woman” is based on a person’s sex at birth.
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The Supreme Court was right to rule that a woman is a woman, but its existence continues to derail Britain’s delicate constitution.
After the UK Supreme Court ruled last week that a “woman” is indeed a woman, campaigners rightly pointed to the absurdity of requiring a panel of senior judges to rubberstamp basic facts.
Another absurdity that has been somewhat lost in this debate is the existence of the Supreme Court altogether.
Until former Labour prime minister Tony Blair introduced this, Britain’s highest court, Parliament, was for hundreds of years the country’s supreme legal authority. Now, decisions made by elected representatives in Parliament and approved by the monarch can be undone by this unelected and anti-constitutional Supreme Court.
Writing in the latest edition of The Mail on Sunday, journalist Peter Hitchens stressed that “the very title of this body is an outrage against the rule that our elected, adversarial Parliament is supreme,” adding:
We can only get rid of it by abolishing it before it gets too powerful. If not swiftly cancelled, it will come to be a sort of tyranny, making all our votes worthless.
This danger is so vastly more important than the transgender controversy that our descendants will marvel that we did and said so little about it when we could.
Historian David Starkey has also railed against the pushers of this and other changes for holding a “deep distrust of direct democracy.”
Following an initial silence on the ruling, Starmer finally said on Monday that “I actually welcome the judgement because I think it gives real clarity” in an area “where we did need clarity.” He has previously said that 99.9% of women “haven’t got a penis,” which would mean that almost 350,000 British women do, while members of his government—including the minister for women, no less—have also struggled to define what a woman is.
Protests against the Supreme Court ruling took place in London and elsewhere over the Easter weekend, with more planned in the coming weeks.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
