Member of the Women's Rights Network Cathy Larkman has hailed the "bravery" of those who fought to get the ruling from the Supreme Court in favour of "biological women", despite the swathes of "death threats" they faced.Following a challenge by the For Women Scotland group, the court ruled that women are determined by "biological sex", not those who are transgender and identify as women.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00And Cathy, it's incredible that it takes a Supreme Court to make a prime minister,
00:06make his mind up about something which a toddler can tell is true.
00:09Nevertheless, there we are.
00:11Do you, however, have any faith?
00:14OK, the holly route today, the SNP have said they will also accept this.
00:18But we're learning as well that 28 NHS trusts across London are simply ignoring the rules.
00:24There's even a rebellion, it appears, from within the Labour Party on this.
00:27Do you have faith that despite the fact this is legally now precedented and set in cement,
00:31that people are just going to try and ignore it, that trans extremists will carry on regardless?
00:36Well, women who have been, you know, involved in this for at least the last decade
00:42will know how awful, how nasty, how toxic this has been.
00:46And it's come from one direction only.
00:49It's come towards the women who have dared assert their rights and stand up for their sex-based rights in law.
00:55It's been horrific.
00:56You know, J.K. Rowling said she could have papered her house with the rape and death threats she's received.
01:03You know, many women, and you're not just myself, but many women have attended sort of meetings
01:07and various different events where we've had to sort of run the gauntlet of, you know,
01:14horrendous banners outside sort of calling for our death and destruction, to be quite frank,
01:19chanting, you know, saying some extraordinarily offensive things about us, wishing violence upon us.
01:25You know, we've seen this in the rallies at the weekend as well, haven't we, really,
01:29with those awful threats being issued.
01:32And we've, you know, we've sat in meetings where there have been baying mobs outside,
01:36banging on the windows and trying to get in.
01:39You know, I've been in many of those meetings myself.
01:41So the bravery of the women who brought this action before the Supreme Court for Women's Scotland can't be, you know, overstated, really,
01:52as is the case for all the women's groups involved in this, including the Women's Rights Network that I represent.
01:58And to go back to sort of one of your questions there, Martin, you know, when you touched upon the NHS trusts,
02:04you know, women have been put, vulnerable women have been put in hospital wards
02:08that have purportedly been single-sex hospital wards, and there have been men in them.
02:13You know, I'm a retired police officer.
02:15I've been fighting a long fight with the police service nationally, who've been determined to bring in opposite-sex,
02:23strip and intimate searching, and have sort of signed off on policies to do that.
02:28It's quite extraordinary, given, you know, all that they say about being dedicated to dealing with violence against women and girls.
02:35So we shouldn't underestimate how much huge organisations have been prepared to sell off women's rights and go along with this.
02:44It's going to take a long time to pull all those policies out.