Another "progressive" lie is dead. Just as we social conservatives always said: you cannot change your sex

No MP who went along with the trans cult should ever be believed about anything important again. They are either grade A cowards or grade A idiots.

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THE Supreme Court has today asserted science and common sense over gender woo woo in a unanimous judgment.

A biological male who identifies as a woman cannot be deemed a woman, even if that person has been furnished with a gender reassignment certificate.

To adapt the famous words of a triumphant Norwegian football commentator: “Nicola Sturgeon, Angela Rayner, Angela Eagle, Maria Miller, Daisy Cooper, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Nokes, Penny Mordaunt. Can you hear me Penny Mordaunt? Your boys took one hell of a beating.”

To that litany of political mediocrities can be added countless other mid-wit MPs and, frankly, cowardly ones who ducked answering the basic question “what is a woman?” when the militant trans movement had an almost total chokehold over Whitehall and broadcast media – Rishi Sunak, Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer (who declared that “it shouldn’t be said” that only a woman could have a cervix). At one point David Lammy genuinely appeared to believe medics could grow a vagina and other female parts inside a biological male, turning that man fully female. Remember, this was the same David Lammy who accused gender critical campaigners of “hoarding rights”.

Well, the Supreme Court ruling today could not be clearer – or more logical. Its judgment could even have been written by Professor Robert Winston, from his famous Question Time oration of a few years back. And one can hardly praise it more highly than that.

“The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man…Persons who share that protected characteristic for the purposes of the group-based rights and protections are persons of the same sex and provisions that refer to protection for women necessarily exclude men. Although the word ‘biological’ does not appear in this definition, the ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or woman”.

And all hail Kemi Badenoch on this score. Today must have been sweet for her after all the hatred spewed towards her over her refusal to join the trans bandwagon. It brings us a much-needed reminder of her exceptional strength of character.

She said in response to today’s judgment: “You cannot change your biological sex. Saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law either. This is a victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious: Women are women and men are men.”

What joy – we are even getting back the primacy of the ordinary meaning of plain words – a stunning reversal of the Woke inquisition.

Perhaps now the BBC and other media outlets will stop describing biologically male sex attackers – men – by their preferred pronouns – she, her, “a woman”. Such insults to our intelligence have been hard to bear. Perhaps gyms will properly enforce women’s changing rooms and theatres will do the same with ladies’ loos. Perhaps women’s refuges will be able to exclude trans-identifying men with complete legal confidence. Perhaps comedians will go uncancelled for mocking the nonsense religion of trans. Perhaps female sports will be properly protected, at last, from male-bodied athletes with vastly superior pace, power and muscle-mass.

Most old-fashioned guys from my neck of the political woods – Brexiteers, social conservatives – have campaigned against this insidious cult from day one and have been scarcely able to believe what a grip it has taken over the public realm and especially women within the public realm.

But as one such old-fashioned guy who has written countless articles defending women’s rights on this score for a decade or more, I’d like to move the debate on today.

Now that everyone realises females need protections and seclusions because of a general male physical power advantage that some men will abuse, can we stop pretending we should expect equal outcomes between the sexes in physically-demanding paid occupations?