Keir Starmer’s top team are trying to convince us they are pleased with the Supreme Court’s trans ruling—that “woman” means woman—just months after they went all-in on distinct, false definitions.
Officials also seem keen to suggest that they have also worked to defend women’s rights. Women and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson said on Tuesday there was “no [policy] change to announce” and that
This Government will continue, as before, working to protect single-sex spaces based on biological sex, now with the added clarity of this ruling. [Emphasis added]
That’s nice, except the government has previously accepted that some organisations are allowing men to enter single-sex spaces, enabling self-ID by the back door.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch was right, therefore, to respond to Phillipson’s “shameless work of fiction” by stressing that “this is a U-turn,” adding:
The people of this country know what a woman is. We did not need the Supreme Court to tell us that, but this government did.
Although her party’s record on this matter—like on most others—is hardly squeaky clean, either.
Responding to his apparent U-turn, journalist Tom Slater said Starmer still cannot be trusted because he has proved himself to be “the anti-conviction politician.”
An empty, slabheaded receptacle into which any mad idea can be poured, only to be jettisoned when it is politically expedient to do so.
Women’s campaigner and Harry Potter author JK Rowling added that Starmer, along with other senior figures in his government, now need to apologise, or at least “admit that they made a serious error in siding with well-funded activist groups lying about what the law actually said, and which had measurable, severe impact on some of society’s most vulnerable women.”
Women have fought (and are still fighting) the single biggest land grab on their rights in my lifetime. Some have sacrificed their livelihoods and safety to combat a pernicious ideology that has infiltrated elite institutions, including government.
But for some, this still would not be enough. The Daily Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson stressed in a hard-hitting column on Wednesday that if the PM had any shame, he would have resigned after the Supreme Court’s ruling.
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_.
