POLL OF THE DAY: Should trans women be included in International Women’s Day? YOUR VERDICT

When asked whether trans women should be included in the celebrations, one woman in Deal said: “I don't agree with that. As a scientist, you are what you are biologically born, I'm afraid, and I don't believe in operations changing things.”

A man from Waterlooville said: “Depends if they want to be women or not on that particular day, I suppose.

“You know I'm easy either way. I've got no great views. I'm not all for these ‘Everyone needs a day’, you know.

“Let's just get on with things and let's get away from all that rubbish.”

In an exclusive poll for GB News membership readers, an overwhelming majority (95 per cent) of the 1,115 voters thought trans women should not be included in International Women's Day, while just four per cent thought they should. One per cent said they did not know.

However, other locals thought trans women should be included.

One woman in Deal said: “We're all the same, aren't we? What your gender is doesn't really apply. It's just just the person. You know, you can have someone that's really nice as transgender and you get someone that's normal, that's really nasty. So you know, it's the person ourselves.”

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Another Kent woman said: “Yes, I do. I just think everybody's entitled to live their own life and if they're trans and they're happy being that, then they should be celebrated.”

A third woman from Waterlooville said: “I think it should be like both trans and biological, definitely because they are females, yet they might not be able to give birth, but they are still recognized as females.

“And I think it's really important that we embrace everyone's genders, what the sex they're born at and the sex that they would like to be known as going forward.

“And they have so much prejudice in their life. I think that it's nice to recognize for mental health.”

A woman in Waterlooville said: “Well, to me, they're all equal. So people can be what they wanna be.

“So yes, if they're included, they're included. But if they're not included, then I don't see any problem with it.”