- A bishop said the church was had no ‘official definition’ of what a woman is
- Rt Rev Robert Innes added the definition of a woman used to be ‘self-evident’
- The stance comes despite Anglicanism still opposing same-sex weddings
- One campaigner said it was ‘shocking’ the church had given up the definition
Campaigner Maya Forstater said: ‘When the Government redefined women through the Gender Recognition Act, the Church of England could have stuck with its long-established understanding, which makes sense whether your starting point is biology or the Bible.
‘It is shocking that they so readily gave up the definition of man or woman for the state to amend, as if this fundamental truth did not matter.’
And Rev Angela Berners-Wilson, who in 1994 became the first woman ordained as an Anglican priest, told The Telegraph: ‘I’m not totally happy with it. I mean, I do think certain things like “men can’t have babies”, just to say the complete obvious thing.’
Source: Church of England: What is a woman? We can’t decide | Daily Mail Online