Peter Walker
speaker
987 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Peter Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Pleasure.
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We got here because when asked to look into it, the Supreme Court concluded that there was a contradiction between the Equalities Act 2010 and the Gender Recognition Act 2004, which sounds very, very naughty.
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But basically, for quite a long time,
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There was a thing that if you had a gender recognition certificate under law, if you were a trans man who'd transitioned from being a woman, you were treated under law as being a man and vice versa.
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But there was a small number of cases in which predatory men would game the system by self-identifying as a trans woman and trying to get themselves into women's spaces, which in a couple of high-profile cases did actually take place.
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was remanded to a female jail.
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While she was in Newhall, she sexually assaulted two inmates who she befriended.
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The whole crux of this issue is how do you balance the right of spaces which are necessarily single sex, particularly spaces where women are particularly vulnerable,
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like domestic refuges and also prisons, against the right of transgender people to be treated as the gender into which they are living.
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And then there was this Scottish group called Four Winners Scotland who challenged it.
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The Supreme Court basically said, we actually agree with you that under the Equalities Act 2010, the definition of a man or a woman is not their gender, but the biological sex into which they were born.
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And that basically threw everything up in the air.
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I mean, they've given it a good go, but it's impossible really to provide clarity on something where there will always be this rubbing up of two different sets of rights.
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Some organisations have said that they're worried that if they
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do an interpretation that unfairly discriminates against trans people, they'll get a lawsuit from that side.
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they over-interpret it the other way, then gender critical women's groups will, you know, sue them the other way.
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In terms of how you enforce it, there is a deliberate bit of a fudge.
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It's a little reminiscent of the way the US military in the past used to have an approach towards gay people, which is don't ask, don't tell.
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The idea is that it's not up to people to become the toilet police and say,
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