Hurrah! The day has finally come: Prime Minister Keir Starmer has, after almost a week of deafening silence, eventually got round to welcoming the Supreme Court’s unanimous judgment that backed the biological definition of a woman. In a rather revealing clip on ITV News today, the PM insisted to interviewers that he is ‘pleased’ about the ruling because it backs up his firm belief that a woman is an ‘adult human female’. But the question of how long Sir Keir has held this view is quite another matter…
When quizzed by reporters today about whether he believed ‘a trans woman is a woman’, the Labour leader asserted: ‘A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.’
He went on, declaring strenuously:
I actually welcome the judgment because I think it gives real clarity. It allows those that have got to draw up guidance to be really clear about what that guidance should say. So I think it’s important that we see the judgment for what it is. It’s a welcome step forward. It’s real clarity in an area where we did need clarity. I’m pleased it’s come about.
If you insist, Keir. Mr S would remind readers that the Prime Minister has enjoyed quite the journey discovering what a woman is. In November 2020, five months after winning the Labour leadership, Starmer posted on Facebook that: ‘The Labour party stands proudly with the trans community.’ A year later, in 2021, Sir Keir proclaimed: ‘We’re committed to updating the GRA to introduce self-declaration for trans people.’ Some months after that, Starmer slapped down his colleague Rosie Duffield for saying only women have cervixes. ‘It’s not right,’ he informed the Beeb’s Andrew Marr Show solemnly. He then proclaimed that it is ‘actually the law’ that ‘trans women are women’ in 2022 before telling the Sunday Times a year later that 99.9 per cent of women ‘of course haven’t got a penis’. Clearly science isn’t his strong suit…
Yet in 2024 the Labour man admitted that ‘biologically’, Duffield was correct for her conclusion about cervixes – although he wouldn’t go so far as to apologise to his then-colleague over his previous remarks. In fact, it was Tony Blair who managed to convince the former Doughty Street lawyer of the facts of human biology – with the now-PM telling a pre-election programme: ‘On the biology, I agree with what Tony Blair said the other day, that a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina.’ We got there in the end, eh?
Starmer’s silence on last week’s Supreme Court ruling has been firmly noted by women’s rights campaigners – including renowned author and former Labour donor JK Rowling. While Sir Keir has now, at long last, waded in, for many it’s too little, too late…
Watch the clip here:
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