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.
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