A former Labour MP who resigned from the Party over her gender-critical views has told ITV News there's no way back with Sir Keir Starmer in charge. Rosie Duffield has faced accusations of transphobia over her views on gender. Following the Supreme Court's ruling last week that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex, there are calls for her to be allowed back. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I certainly felt hounded while I was in the Labour Party.
00:03Lots of kind of organising of statements and letters against me
00:06and a sort of whispering campaign, and that happened a lot.
00:10And why do you think they did that?
00:12Because they vehemently disagreed with my stance on women's rights.
00:16I think I feel that women like me have indicated,
00:19because we've always said that that is the law,
00:22but, you know, you don't...
00:24I don't necessarily feel excited or jubilant about it.
00:28And do you see a way back into the Labour Party?
00:31Not under Keir Starmer's leadership.
00:33I can't imagine being able to do that.
00:35Why not?
00:35There are hundreds of people who've been banned, barred,
00:38blocked, expelled from the party
00:40for saying exactly the same thing that the party are now saying.
00:43If I met Emily, I would address her as a woman,
00:46I'd talk to her as a woman, I'd use her preferred pronouns
00:48just out of good manners,
00:50but I don't think that women should have to compete
00:54with people that were born men.
00:56Basically, you don't think she's a woman?
00:59She wasn't born a woman, and she has a huge advantage.
01:02And do you understand why some people see a view like that to be transphobic?
01:08If that's the way they see it, I can't stop them seeing that,
01:11but my whole fight in this, and all the feminists I know,
01:15has been for women to have our own sports categories,
01:18our own spaces.