A transgender woman has boasted about using the ladies toilets in Parliament just days after the Supreme Court ruling.
The landmark hearing last Wednesday ruled that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex, and that trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) could potentially be excluded from single-sex spaces if ‘proportionate’.
In an 88-page ruling, the justices said: ‘The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.’
Despite this Marty Davies, a writer and campaigner, took to X to detail how she is protesting the change in the law from the heart of government.
She arrived at Parliament for Lesbian Visibility Week to hear the Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson speaking in the chamber.
Which Davies described as her ‘casually rubber stamping the stripping away for Trans+ rights’.
She wrote on X: ‘Following the speech I went to the women’s toilets just outside the Churchill room. I went to the toilet.
‘I washed my hands. And no one was hurt.’
She arrived at Parliament for Lesbian Visibility Week to hear the Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson speaking in the chamber
She joins a multitude of other activists who are defying the new rules, with one photographing themselves in a women-only space.
Joss Prior took a selfie in what looks like a women’s toilets yesterday, posting it on X alongside the caption: ‘Using women’s spaces as you do.’
Meanwhile, Ashley Johnson threatened to ‘p*** on the floor’ if she is stopped from using the ladies toilets.
‘Back to anxiety I had about using public toilets when I first transitioned. Thinking I’ll still use the ladies and if any establishment stops me, I’ll p*** on the floor in their public area,’ she wrote on Facebook.
The ruling has caused much controversy among various groups, with transgender activists left furious.
Thousands of outraged campaigners took to the streets of London to protest – waving flags and chanting throughout the afternoon.
Protestors targeted a number of statues in the capital. Notably, a statue of the suffragette Millicent Fawcett was defaced with a banner reading ‘F** rights’.
The Metropolitan Police said they were investigating the incidents as criminal damage after the statues were daubed with graffiti.
Thousands of people took to the streets of London after the Supreme Court ruled that women are ‘biological women’
A statue of former South African prime minister Jan Smuts was graffitied with the words ‘trans rights are human rights’
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper condemned vandalism around Westminster in the wake of the demonstrations
This weekend, pro-trans groups are organising demonstrations in towns and cities including Coventry; Portsmouth; Liverpool; Leicester; Oxford; Birmingham; Cheltenham; Cambridge; Derby; Bristol; Newcastle and Aberystwyth.
In Coventry, the group ‘Coventry Trans Pride’ has called an ’emergency protest for trans rights’, meeting at the city’s statue of Lady Godiva on Saturday afternoon.
They call on people to ‘come together to show that we won’t take these attacks on our rights sitting down… we will not disappear and we will not be silenced.’
In Darlington, a protest in the town’s market square was called after the Supreme Court’s decision was described as ‘more than a simple clarification on wording, it’s an attempt to push trans people out of public life completely.
In his first comments since the Supreme Court’s judgment, Sir Keir Starmer yesterday said he believed ‘a woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.’
He added: ‘I actually welcome the judgment because I think it gives real clarity. It allows those that have got to draw up guidance to be really clear about what that guidance should say.’
