The co-founder of For Women Scotland has hit out at Labour’s delay in issuing formal trans guidance in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
Speaking with GB News’ Martin Daubney, Susan Smith warned that the lack of action from the Government could lead to dire consequences for women and girls.
In April, the Supreme Court ruled that the term “women” refers to biological sex, rather than gender identity, leading to mass disgruntlement across Britain within the pro-trans community.
However, the Government has not yet published official guidance on the landmark decision, leaving women’s rights campaigners up in arms over what this means for the safety of Britain’s women and girls.
Ms Smith cited the “outrageous” example of Girlguiding, which recently made the “difficult decision” to announce that transgender girls will no longer be permitted to join as new members.
“The fact is that these organisations should never have been allowing boys or men in in the first place, especially the Girl Guides, because they don’t even have the excuse of saying there might be people with a gender recognition certificate because these children were all under 18,” she told Martin.
“There was absolutely no question that they could have had any sort of legal recognition of a change of gender.
“So it’s actually in light of the Supreme Court ruling. Obviously, they should have moved immediately, but there was never any legal basis for allowing men and boys into these organisations in the first place.
The Supreme Court made the landmark decision in April – but Labour still is yet to publish official guidance for its implementation
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“Is it interesting how it took an outraged mother, to go to the girl guides and basically ask along that line of ‘why should my daughter share a tent, share a shower, share an intimate space with a biological male?'” Martin pressed.
“The girl guides basically wobbled and pulled the plug.”
In agreement, Ms Smith added: “That’s what we’re seeing, unfortunately, that it is taking people applying the law and threatening organisations with the law to produce a movement.
“And that shouldn’t be happening. They should be put and be active and preempting these things.”
Campaigners Maya Forstater and Fiona McAnena spoke to GB News reporter Sam Francis at the march along Whitehall
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GB NEWSThe girlguiding announcement has been followed by a similar announcement by the Women’s Institute, which said that it will no longer accept transgender women becoming or remaining members.
The move is a marked development for the 110-year-old institution, which has welcomed trans women into its ranks for more than four decades.
Last month, a slew of gender critical activists flocked to Whitehall to march 199 days after the ruling, calling on the Government to publish guidance as a matter of urgency.
“The Government seems to be dragging its heels on this,” Martin commented.
“We have the same problem in Scotland, that we’re having to threaten again to go back to court over the prison policy in Scotland,” Ms Smith added.
“I was at a meeting just today organised by the Women’s Rights Network here in Scotland about sexual assaults in hospitals and it spaces like those where people are uniquely vulnerable, where we are not seeing the movement on putting this into action.
“And in the interim, women and girls are being hurt.”
Previously, gender critical activist Maya Forstater told GB News: “Straight after the ruling, Keir Starmer said the Government supports it. Everyone needs to get on with it.
“And now we’ve been waiting seven months for guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. It’s been completed,” she said, adding that they did not know why the process has been delayed.
“Everyone needs to understand the law. And at the moment they’re saying there is no guidance.”