Supreme Court's ruling on women will 'take a while to be dismantled' despite 'common sense victory': 'It's biological reality!'

Delivering their verdict on the decision, a UK Government spokesman said it gave "clarity and confidence", both for women and for those who run single-sex spaces.

Discussing the ruling on GB News, Chief Executive of Christian Concern Andrea Williams said the move is a victory for "biological reality", but argued that it may not be so easily resolved due to the "culture" of many organisations.

Williams explained: "I think it's going to take a while to be resolved. And the truth is, the culture of many organisations, many public institutions, but also private institutions is really deeply infused with this idea that to say a man is a man and a woman is a woman is discriminatory, when in fact, so very clearly, it's reality.

"It's not just biological reality - it's just reality. But policies across the country are wrong, and wrongly say that the law says that you discriminate if you don't accept that someone says that they're in the opposite sex, and that's something that will take a while to be dismantled."

Throwing her support behind the campaign groups that challenged previous legislation on the issue, Williams offered her "absolute congratulations" to For Women Scotland and Sex Matters for their accomplishment.

Williams told GB News: "Absolute congratulations to For Women Scotland and to Sex Matters, those groups that have really, over many years now, fought that campaign through the courts and indeed against the might, in a sense, of the Scottish Government of Amnesty International intervened against them.

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"But I think it's really important to say at this point that we must have compassion. We must be kind to people that are confused about their biology. But we cannot affirm them in a sex that is not a reality. And we are really not, within law, affirming what is patently something that's not true."

Highlighting various ongoing cases in Britain - mainly within the NHS - Williams expressed hope that the landmark ruling will help "change the policy" instilled in public institutions, such as the country's own health service.

Williams recalled: "We've seen doctors unable to continue with certain positions with in the National Health Service simply because they would refuse to put on a medical certification that a man was a woman or a woman was a man.

"We've got this very recent case of Jennifer Melle, where a convicted paedophile prisoner requested to be called a man and a nurse said that she would call him by the name that he was requesting, but in fact he overheard her referring to him as a male to the consultant doctor, and issued a complaint about her - and it's her that has been suspended."

She added: "And of course, the ongoing case of the Darlington nurses, these amazing nurses up in the north of England who for two years have been told by the trust there they have to essentially do kindness training, they have to reframe their thinking in order to accept that a biological man entering their changing room should be accepted in their changing room, because he says that he is a woman.

"So there are ongoing cases on the ground, and I hope that as a result of this judgement, what we're going to see is a change, a clear change in policy."

Labour Health Minister Karin Smith said of the verdict: "It is a complicated issue, but the ruling gives real clarity now to this issue from the Supreme Court. That's a good thing.

"And I understand from the Equality of Human Rights Commission that they will be following up with guidance to all public bodies."