00:00So I'm just off air from what was a very busy show of Britain's Newsroom this morning.
00:05We had this historic ruling from the Supreme Court that a woman is biologically born a woman, female.
00:15Now, it's like the stuff of satire that we should even be having to have that conversation.
00:19But of course, this is in response to the Gender Equality Act from 2010,
00:23which has been used in accordance or alongside with gender recognition certificates in Scotland
00:30so that anybody who defines themselves as a woman could buy for £6 a certificate to say I'm a woman.
00:36Therefore, I can compete in women's sports in some events and therefore I can also use women's spaces under some circumstances.
00:43Well, today, common sense has ruled, has reigned supreme in the Supreme Court.
00:50And I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief because this is about recognising that we are born in a biological sex,
01:00one of two biological sexes, and that needs to be understood in order to protect women, actually.
01:07And what struck me this morning when we were watching this is that this is always about what is a woman.
01:12We very rarely, almost never, hear the debate about what is a man.
01:16It's almost like we all know what a man is, right?
01:19Men are strong. Men are leaders. Women are a little bit more ephemeral.
01:22We can just be defined as something, you know, slightly different.
01:26Women give birth. We do the most important job in the world.
01:30And so I, for one, am celebrating this morning that we recognise what is a woman.
01:35And when I have this conversation with my children, as I often do, because obviously they are teenagers
01:40and therefore there are people at their school who do not see themselves as boys or girls.
01:44I'm not sure what their parents think about that or encourage them to think like that.
01:48But I can now say to my girls, as of today, and my son, as of today,
01:53there are two biological sexes in the eyes of the law.
01:57And that is a wonderful thing.
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