All the Times Starmer Couldn’t Say What a Woman Is – Guido Fawkes

FLASHBACK: All the Times Starmer Couldn’t Say What a Woman Is

Today’s Supreme Court ruling that defines a woman as “biologically female” has been hailed as a major victory for women’s rights campaigners across the UK. Labour is now framing the decision as a validation of Starmer’s efforts to steer the party towards a more ‘commonsense’ approach, while shifting blame for past confusion over sex and gender onto Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. A Labour source says:

“This just shows why it was so important that Keir hauled the Labour Party back to the commonsense position the public take on these sorts of issues. He gradually moved the party to one that took the activist position to a serious sensible one that protected women’s spaces while allowing for respectful debate. It’s one of the reasons the country felt Labour was safe to elect just a few years after the disaster of 2019.”

Guido isn’t buying the spin on this one. Since becoming Labour leader in 2020, Starmer has repeatedly tied himself in knots over the issue, ducking and dodging the simple question of what defines a woman:

• June 2021: Starmer doubles down on vow to reform Gender Recognition Act and introduce self-ID for trans people.
• March 2022: Starmer flounders on LBC for a whole three minutes without being able to say whether a woman can have a penis or not”.
• June 2022: Starmer says: For the vast majority of women, biology is what matters and it’s very clear that they don’t have a penis…99.9% of women, it’s all biology”. At that time then-shadow equalities secretary Anneliese Dodds says women can’t have penises, then-party chair Stella Creasy says they can…
• December 2022: Starmer vows again to support transgender self-identification.
• April 2023: Starmer tells The Times women can have penises, saying: “For 99.9% of women, it is completely biological… and of course they haven’t got a penis. Some people identify as a different gender to the one they are born with.”
• July 2023: Starmer finally says a woman is “an adult female“.
• March 2024: Starmer tells The Sun: “we’ve been very clear… for the overwhelming majority of women, it’s a biological issue”. 

Luckily the human rights lawyer can now point to the law to define what a woman is…