00:00It's really important that biological sex is what is recognised, is what is meant by sex in the Equality Act.
00:06The implications for that are really important and they will protect single-sex women's spaces up and down the country
00:12for some of the most vulnerable women as well, particularly in things like women's refuges and maternity units and women's prisons.
00:20And I hope we can now see the guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission coming forwards really quickly
00:25to ensure that those spaces for women are protected.
00:28Well, I don't want anybody to feel discriminated against. I've had some difficult constituency cases myself.
00:34I think it's important, though, that the Equality and Human Rights Commission really reflect the fact that women have been worried
00:40by people self-identifying over the last few years and that those safe spaces for women are protected.
00:48I think there's always things which can be found and we'll see what the ECHR rules are.
00:55I think that's going to be important, but I don't think there's any need for this to be seen as an attack on trans people.
01:02Actually, this is about protecting women and protecting women's safe spaces.
01:06What I really have been concerned by over the last few years is where we've seen spaces which are for women, particularly vulnerable women,
01:15where there's been abuses taking place, whether that's in women's prisons, whether that's in women's refuges,
01:21whether that's sometimes in women's wards in hospitals.
01:24I think this provides a clear direction for both the public sector and the private sector,
01:29and I hope that that guidance can ensure that everybody gets the protection that they deserve.
01:34I think this provides a clear direction for both the public sector and the public sector and the public sector and the public sector and the public sector.
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