Director of For Women Scotland Susan Smith has declared that women are “not human shields” for “vulnerable men” following demonstrations across the capital in protest of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Following a challenge by the For Women group, the Supreme Court ruled that women are determined by “biological sex”, not those who are transgender and simply identify as women.
Storming the capital on Saturday, transgender protesters demonstrated against the decision, choosing to graffiti on key women’s rights figures – including suffragette Millicent Fawcett.
Discussing the ruling on GB News, Smith told host Camilla Tominey that the ruling was to simply “clarify” the legislation against those who have tried to “trespass across women’s boundaries”.
Susan Smith has declared that women should not be ‘human shields’ to protect ‘vulnerable men’
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Smith explained: “We’ve got the clarity, that is what the Supreme Court ruling was, giving us that clarity. And people have really pushed and pushed and pushed and they have tried to trespass across women’s boundaries.
“For a long time, women had been accommodating, they hadn’t raised too many objections. And it was only when people really started to make our lives intolerable that we started to have to fight back.”
Highlighting the women’s argument further, Smith declared that women are “not human shields” for vulnerable men, and those who have been critical of women’s only spaces have “no sympathy” for the women “unable to live their lives”.
Smith told GB News: “I don’t understand why a woman would be at risk in a men’s space. And if they are at risk in a men’s space, that’s something that men have to start to deal with, because it shouldn’t be up to women to protect men who might be vulnerable.
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Trans rights protesters gathered at Parliament Square on Saturday to demonstrate against the court’s rulingGB News“There are plenty of men who are vulnerable for all sorts of reasons, not all of them people identify as being trans, and we’re not human shields for them. And when they talk about not being able to live their lives, they have had no sympathy for the very many women who have not been able to live their lives.”
Smith added: “They have not been able to go shopping because they can’t use a mixed sex changing room, and that’s especially the case, perhaps for ethnic and minority religious women. They’ve not had any sympathy for women who’ve been frightened to use a rape crisis shelter because it was headed up by a biological man.
“They’ve had no sympathy for these women who’ve been pushed right to the fringes because of their activism. And now they’re trying to pull sob stories and try to make play on women’s kindness. Well, we were kind for a very long time, and it got us into this mess.”
When asked by Camilla Tominey if she is surprised by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s silence on the verdict, Smith claimed that many politicians “owe an apology” to women.
Smith told GB News that the backlash to the ruling has been ‘insane’
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Smith explained: “I think a lot of politicians owe women an apology, and I think Keir Starmer is one of them. He did make some ridiculous comments about something like 1 per cent of women have penises.
“And I know that the Labour Party have stepped back a bit in recent times, and Keir Starmer has been conspicuously silent on it – I think a lot of politicians are afraid of some of the sorts of men that we saw out demonstrating yesterday. I think they’re frightened of them, and they should be frightened of them, because a lot of them are dangerous people.”
She concluded: “I am frightened, I’m terrified of them. But as mothers and grandmothers and young women, we’ve got an enormous amount of young women starting now to speak up at universities, and these are people who are actually at risk.
“He’s the most powerful person in the country. He needs to stop being afraid of them and start to stand up for the people who need protection.”
