Female Labour Ministers have "remained silent" over today's Supreme Court ruling relating to the definition of biological sex.
The Supreme Court officially ruled that the terms "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
GB News approached the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and the Office for Equality and Opportunity asking if the Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Minister Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls Jess Phillips for a comment.
A spokesman from the Cabinet Office and the Office for Equality and Opportunity said there was no one available to comment.
Labour Women's Minister SILENT following Supreme Court ruling over biological sex definition
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Reacting to the Supreme Court ruling, a Government spokesman said: "We have always supported the protection of single-sex spaces based on biological sex.
"This ruling brings clarity and confidence, for women and service providers such as hospitals, refuges, and sports clubs.
"Single-sex spaces are protected in law and will always be protected by this Government."
This comes as feminists are celebrating a major victory for "common sense" today after the UK's Supreme Court declared in a landmark ruling: Trans women are not women.
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After years of concerns that women's rights are being watered down in a bid to appease trans activists, Britain's top judges this morning unanimously agreed the terms "woman" and "sex" in gender legislation will only refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
Speaking in the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge declared that it was not the court’s responsibility to create policy on the way in which transgender people should be protected by the law.
"Our role is to ascertain the meaning of the legislation which parliament has enacted to that end," he said.
He continued: "The central question on this appeal is the meaning of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010.
Speaking in the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge declared that it was not the court’s responsibility to create policy on the way in which transgender people should be protected by the law
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"Do those terms refer to biological women or biological sex? Or is a woman to be interpreted as extending to a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate?"
He declared: "The terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex."
In an 88-page-long judgment, Lord Hodge, Lady Rose and Lady Simler explained that while the word “biological” does not appear in the definition of man or woman in equality legislation, "the ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or a woman".
The judges added that interpreting biological sex with GRCs would "cut across the definition of the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way".
They said: “We can identify no good reason why the legislature should have intended that sex-based rights and protections under the EA 2010 should apply to these complex, heterogenous groupings, rather than to the distinct group of, biological, women and girls, or men and boys, with their shared biology leading to shared disadvantage and discrimination faced by them as a distinct group.”
