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The co-founder of For Women Scotland has hit out at Labour’s delay in issuing formal trans guidance in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
Speaking with GB News’ Martin Daubney, Susan Smith warned that the lack of action from the Government could lead to dire consequences for women and girls.
Ms Smith cited the “outrageous” example of Girlguiding, which recently made the “difficult decision” to announce that transgender girls will no longer be permitted to join as new members.
“The fact is that these organisations should never have been allowing boys or men in in the first place, especially the Girl Guides, because they don’t even have the excuse of saying there might be people with a gender recognition certificate because these children were all under 18,” she told Martin.
“Is it interesting how it took an outraged mother, to go to the girl guides and basically ask along that line of ‘why should my daughter share a tent, share a shower, share an intimate space with a biological male?'” Martin pressed.
In agreement, Ms Smith added: “That’s what we’re seeing, unfortunately, that it is taking people applying the law and threatening organisations with the law to produce a movement.
“And that shouldn’t be happening. They should be put and be active and preempting these things.”
The girlguiding announcement has been followed by a similar announcement by the Women’s Institute, which said that it will no longer accept transgender women becoming or remaining members.
The move is a marked development for the 110-year-old institution, which has welcomed trans women into its ranks for more than four decades.
Maya Forstater told GB News: “Straight after the ruling, Keir Starmer said the Government supports it. Everyone needs to get on with it.
“And now we’ve been waiting seven months for guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. It’s been completed,” she said, adding that they did not know why the process has been delayed.
“Everyone needs to understand the law. And at the moment they’re saying there is no guidance.”
Source: Gender critical activist warns girls ‘being hurt’ over delay to enact Supreme Court trans guidance