PM reverses stance on trans women after court ruling

Sir Keir Starmer no longer believes trans women are women in the wake of last week’s landmark Supreme Court ruling.

- KATE DEVLIN

The prime minister has previously said that “trans women are women”, but asked to repeat that statement yesterday he pointed to the judgment, which ruled the term woman referred to biological sex, saying it had “answered that question”.

Downing Street later confirmed the U-turn. Asked if the PM still believed that a transgender woman was a woman, his official spokesperson said: “No, the Supreme Court judgment has made clear that when looking at the Equality Act, a woman is a biological woman. That is set out clearly by the court judgment.”