GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry has launched a scathing attack on civil servants threatening to strike over a Supreme Court ruling on transgender rights, describing their actions as "appalling".
The People's Channel star condemned union members who are opposing guidance that prohibits transgender women from using female toilets in government buildings following last month's landmark court decision.
Michelle expressed outrage at civil servants who appear to be "disregarding the highest court of the land because it doesn't go along with their make believe".
The dispute stems from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members threatening strikes and legal action against guidance that would enforce the Supreme Court's ruling that transgender women are not legally women. Last month, the court determined that "sex" in equality law refers to biological sex.
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Following this decision, the equalities watchdog advised that trans women should not be allowed to use female lavatories, with employers, shops and hospitals expected to comply with the judgment.
PCS activists plan to challenge this guidance at their upcoming annual conference.
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Another DWP branch in Edinburgh has proposed that "trans and non-binary people should have equal access to all services and facilities according to their gender identity" and that people should be able to "determine their own legal gender" without medical processes or bureaucratic hurdles.
The presenter's response to what should happen to civil servants threatening industrial action was unequivocal. When addressing those who might strike over the Supreme Court's transgender ruling, Michelle simply stated: "Sack them."
Her comments come as tensions escalate within the civil service, with the PCS union previously describing the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance as "damaging" and "impossible to implement".
Helen Joyce from Sex Matters criticised the union's position, saying that "describing single-sex facilities as segregation is grossly offensive" to women's need for safety and privacy.
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PAOn GB News , Michelle specifically challenged claims that biology doesn't define identity. "When I hear things like, 'our bodies do not define who we are', of course we do, to a massive extent," she said.
She added: "You show me a biological man who can get pregnant and I will show you a pig flying overhead. It cannot happen and will not happen. Why? They are biologically male."
Michelle also expressed strong opposition to transgender bathroom access, stating: "This notion that as women, we have to go to the toilet and encounter random men because they think they are female... I think is appalling."
The PCS motion, tabled by the Sheffield branch of the Department of Work and Pensions, explicitly "rejects biological essentialism and reductionism" and states that "LGBT+ and women's liberation are interlinked and that our bodies do not define who we are, who we love or what we are capable of."
