WATCH: Alex Armstrong blasts Labour LGBT group for nominating transgender woman for female role

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Labour's LGBT+ group has sparked outrage after nominating a transgender woman to become their next Women's Officer.Delivering his verdict on GB News, commentator Alex Armstrong declared that a "man cannot understand women's issues".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00So, yet another row over Labour's stance on gender.

00:04Trans activists have put forward a biological man

00:08to be the woman's officer for the Labour Party's LGBTQ plus group.

00:14The controversial move, backed by the new Trans Rights Alliance,

00:17has drawn criticism from gender-critical Labour members.

00:20You say it breaches party rules and defies a Supreme Court ruling

00:23defining woman as biological sex.

00:27OK, so, I mean, it does seem like maybe that's a slightly backwards step,

00:33given that we'd had some rulings that this stuff

00:36shouldn't really be happening anymore.

00:37Do you know, when we first saw the headline,

00:38I thought they'd actually just picture you

00:40straight down the middle bloke for it.

00:41Right.

00:41Just like, you want a job done.

00:43Get someone in a suit.

00:45Someone who needs a job at the moment, I don't know.

00:48Do you think he was exactly the person for it, Greg?

00:51Could be.

00:51Yeah, what could go wrong?

00:52What could go wrong?

00:53As the women's officer.

00:55Middle-aged women of a certain age.

00:56Middle-aged women of a certain age.

00:59Actually, have we got that Greg Wallace clip?

01:02Can you get it out for me?

01:03On the back of this story.

01:04The one we nearly had before, that.

01:05Greg Wallace about middle-aged women.

01:06Because this is apparently that Labour Party looking for,

01:10what, is it for a women's officer?

01:11Is that right?

01:12For LGBT...

01:13LGBT Labour, I imagine, are looking for a women's officer.

01:16That sounds like.

01:17Right, so LGBT Labour are looking for a new women's officer.

01:22So this is Greg Wallace's pitch for that role.

01:25Handful of middle-class women of a certain age.

01:34That's who he's going to represent.

01:35That's who he's there for, fighting the good fight.

01:37I don't know.

01:38I mean, they don't help themselves, do they,

01:39when they do this kind of stuff?

01:41Do you think, like, you should probably just pick up

01:42an actual biological woman for a women's role, do you think?

01:45Hmm.

01:45It's the first I've heard of it.

01:47And I would say it's probably inappropriate,

01:50because if you are trans,

01:51you can probably talk about the issues trans women may face.

01:55I think if you're going for a women's officer role,

01:58you've got to be a woman from birth.

02:00And I think, therefore, you can talk more broadly

02:02about the issues women face.

02:04That's what I...

02:05Isn't it just mad that we're having this conversation?

02:06Yeah, but I don't think...

02:08I mean, you're being very pliable,

02:09because you say, I think you're...

02:11It is the case.

02:12It's 100% the case.

02:13A man can't ever understand women's issues.

02:16It's just a matter of fact.

02:17We just can't.

02:18That's how it is.

02:19If I was to magically become a woman tomorrow,

02:20I don't think I'd know what it means to be a woman.

02:23And if they're a trans officer

02:24and they put someone in who wasn't trans,

02:26I'm sure they'd complain.

02:27So the logic stands,

02:28and they'd agree with the logic half the time.

02:30Yeah.

02:30And I think with things...

02:31There are facts, right?

02:33So gender is a social construct,

02:36sex isn't, it's biological.

02:37I think the same could be said of race and ethnicity.

02:40And I can only imagine the backlash

02:41if a white person was elected as LGBT Labour

02:45or any other group's race officer, for instance,

02:48and it was a white person,

02:49not somebody that wasn't white.

02:50Exactly.

02:51And I think that's where we have to maybe look

02:53at the facts on this sort of stuff,

02:54at the risk of upsetting

02:57and actually just not representing people.

02:58But it goes across the reality

03:00that the whole alphabet spaghetti

03:02of LGBTQIA plus is too broad.

03:04OK.

03:05OK.

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