GB News senior political commentator Nigel Nelson sparked a fiery trans row with Dr Renee Hoenderkamp after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer broke his silence on the Supreme Court's ruling on women.
Following protests from the transgender community and its supporters over the weekend, the Labour leader welcomed the Supreme Court's ruling that defines a woman as "an adult female", marking a shift from his previous stance on transgender issues.
In his first public comments since the April 16 decision, the Prime Minister said he is "really pleased" with the clarity that the court's ruling offers.
The Prime Minister added: "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."
Nigel Nelson and Dr Renee Hoenderkamp clashed over gender recognition following the Supreme Court's ruling
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Discussing the impact of the ruling on gender recognition and single-sex spaces, Nelson explained that the Supreme Court acted on the "ridiculous situation" happening in Scotland.
Nelson told GB News: "The whole point was the court saw this was a ridiculous situation, and what they've actually said is that a biological sex can't be changed - that's the most important thing. What effect that will have on behaviour we will have to see.
"But they didn't set an obligation on organisations to change their practices, but what it meant was that organisations can change their practices if they wished. In women's sport, it would be particularly important because it means you could ban trans women from female events without any fear of any court action."
As host Miriam Cates weighed in on the impact of the ruling and claimed that "if you provide a single sex service, it has to now be single sex", Dr Renee Hoenderkamp claimed it now makes gender recognition certificates "void".
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Trans rights protesters gathered at Parliament Square on Saturday to demonstrate against the court's rulingGB NewsDr Hoenderkamp stated: "If you decide that it's not going to be single sex and a woman complains, then you have to bend to her, that's what it means. But the point that you made Nigel that they don't have the right to change your biological sex renders gender recognition certificates null and void. And gender isn't sex.
"It's a social construct. But it also means that all data from police records to medical records should go back to reflect biological sex."
Discussing the next steps for gender recognition following the ruling, Nelson claimed that the Gender Recognition Act should be addressed, to which Hoenderkamp argued that it "should be scrapped".
Nelson said: "There's still the situation where a man can be a woman officially, on the basis they can change their birth certificate and their passport."
The GB News panel debated the impact of the Supreme Court's ruling on single-sex spaces
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Hoenderkamp hit back: "Say you come in to me as a doctor and you're a man, but you were a woman, and you've got tummy ache - I do all of the investigations that I need to do, but the one thing I don't investigate is ovarian cancer - because you're a man, you don't have ovaries.
"I miss your cancer early and you then represent later with terminal ovarian cancer, whose fault is it? Is it mine? Is it yours? This is a nonsense. We need to scrap the Gender Recognition Act and rescind all of the certificates."
Hoenderkamp concluded: "I don't mind how anybody wants to live. If they want to live looking like a woman with a dress on and high heels and whatever it is they feel makes a woman, that's fine.
"But what they can't do or shouldn't be able to do is change data. Because data is how we plan societies, we won't be able to plan for our prisons, for our health services, or for our schools."
