22/10/2025
Top British news wire Pink News reports that confusion still reigns in the Labour government after years of flip flopping on trans rights. A transgender woman and journalist, Izzy Dine, asked Equalities Secretary Bridgette Phillipson where she should go to the toilet - gents or ladies? The equalities secretary responded with a fudge, saying "“As Minister for Women and Equalities, I set out the policies responding to the Supreme Court judgement. The Supreme Court were clear that, uh, for the purposes of the Equality Act, sex is biological sex. What’s now happening is the Equality and Human Rights Commission have, uh, have consulted on a code of practice to me as the minister. I’ll then be going through that line by line to make sure we get that right. It’s a 300-page document so it will take some time.” With no clear position arising, Mss Dine spoke to PinkNews, and said she knew “how rare of an opportunity” the interview was for a trans person. “I’m not sure the government has ever actually been faced with a trans journalist asking questions about trans rights”, she said. “So I wanted the Equalities Minister to tell me to my face that I shouldn’t be able to use the women’s bathroom”. Commentators at Pink News noted that Phillipson seemed annoyed to have been asked the probing question and that Labour had lost a key opportunity to show leadership in the field of equalities.
