Transgender activist Steph Richards has expressed feeling "sexless" following yesterday's UK Supreme Court ruling on the definition of "woman" in the Equality Act.The Supreme Court ruling found that the terms "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act refer to biological women and biological sex.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00Thanks. Thanks for joining us. What does the ruling yesterday mean to you?
00:05To me personally, it's a disaster. I've got a gender recognition certificate, has indeed one in every 12,000 people in the country today.
00:19And it's effectively meant that my gender recognition certificate is pretty much worthless in some respects.
00:27It still gives me the ability, if I wanted to remarry, I lost my partner last year, to remarry in my correct gender.
00:36It certainly gives me the ability to die as a woman.
00:42But I'm kind of sexless because the fact is I've got a gender recognition certificate.
00:51I've also got a female birth certificate. I am legally female.
00:55Now, I've had surgery, I've had lower surgery. But in regards to the Equality Act, I am considered a man.
01:03Steph, do you accept that some women felt as though their identity was being erased?
01:10That the balance wasn't being struck between transgender rights and women's rights?
01:15We spoke there in the introduction about the NHS. I mean, how many how many times things like cervix haver, chest feeder, these sorts of words,
01:24the worry about transgender people, even rapists being in female prisons and the like, the concern over changing rooms and sports and so on.
01:35Can you see that for a lot of women, they were deeply concerned about those issues?
01:41Can you name me a trans woman sports person?
01:45Well, we actually covered the two transgender women who won a pool tournament very recently.
01:52I can't remember their exact names.
01:55Pardon?
01:55In America?
01:55So, what is your point here, Steph?
01:58So, you don't think that it's an issue that transgender people might enter female sports and dominate?
02:06Well, we're already banned from all the sports in the UK, pretty much.
02:11You know, if there's a sports issue, it's not in the UK.
02:14And you mentioned about hospitals.
02:17Well, Translucent has done three different investigations with requesting NHS foundation trusts if they've had any complaints about trans women in female wards.
02:32We have made 282 freedom of information requests covering a period of three years and three months.
02:40And we found just one complaint.
02:45Now, bearing in mind that 6 million women go into hospital every year, that perhaps shows you that in actual fact there's not an issue in hospitals.