Sir Keir Starmer has been lambasted for failing to condemn the trans rights demonstrations in light of the Supreme Court ruling, as the Director of Transgender Trend Stephanie Davies-Arai criticised the Labour leader's silence.
On Saturday, trans rights supporters took to the streets of London to protest against the Supreme Court's verdict on "biological women" - defacing seven statues in the process.
In a fiery exchange during Prime Minister's Questions today on the ruling, Starmer declared that it is time to "lower the temperature" on the debate and "move forward".
Welcoming the court's verdict, he told the House: "We will also ensure that trans people are treated with respect and we will ensure that everybody is given dignity in their everyday lives."
Stephanie Davies-Arai has hit out at Keir Starmer's silence in condemning the trans rights protests in light of the Supreme Court's ruling
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Discussing the PM's remarks on GB News, Davies-Arai hit out at his failure to condemn the protests, which she claimed was a demonstration of "real incitement to violence against women by trans supporters".
Davies-Arai fumed: "I wish he'd made some comments about the really disgraceful misogyny that was expressed on Saturday in Parliament Square. It's real incitement to violence against women by trans supporters.
"It would be nice if he wants to dial down the temperature to make some comment on that, to say that he condemns that expression of violence and hatred towards women - that was why it was so appalling."
Recalling the controversial banners held by protesters and the damage to the statues, Davies-Arai claimed that it would have been a "perfect opportunity" for Starmer to speak out on the matter.
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PADavies-Arai stated: "All of the banners, the damaging of statues, that protest on Saturday was a great occasion for Keir Starmer to walk the talk and say I condemn this, and he hasn't said anything about it.
"Bridget Phillipson referenced it, so I was glad to hear that, but normally he's very quick to speak up - if it was a far-right protest, for example, he'd be on it immediately."
Noting the Supreme Court's ruling on biological women, Davies-Arai explained that Starmer is in a position to "make the ruling clear", after "years of confusion" influenced by the transgender community.
Davies-Arai said: "He should be making it really clear, because there still seems to be a lot of confusion about what this judgment means.
Davies-Arai told GB News that the protests were a demonstration of 'disgraceful misogyny' against women
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"Although it simply clarifies a law that has that existed and has been misrepresented by trans activist groups for so long that it ended up with women having lost their rights over the past 12 years, and now we have them back."
She concluded: "It was always obvious that the Equality Act meaning of the word woman must be biological female, otherwise you cannot operate in laws or anti-discrimination laws on the basis that woman is not a discrete defined group, that it's a group that includes men.
"And that's all the judgment said, so it simply means that biological females are women only spaces, which are for biological females only. And that has to be the case for the protection of women."
