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Labour's WhatsApp plot to defy trans ruling: Ministers' leaked messages reveal their fury at calls to ban transgender women from female-only changing rooms

By GLEN OWEN

Published: 00:12, 20 April 2025 | Updated: 01:58, 20 April 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14628401/Labour-Whatsapp-leaked-messages-transgender-court-ruling.html

Labour ministers are secretly plotting to defy the landmark court ruling that men who change gender are not legally women, leaked WhatsApp messages obtained by The Mail on Sunday have revealed.

The Government claimed to welcome the Supreme Court judgment – but the exchanges reveal the private fury on Sir Keir Starmer’s frontbench, with ministers planning to hold a meeting this week to ‘decide a way forwards’ and ‘organise’.

In the messages, sent on Thursday evening, Culture Minister Sir Chris Bryant joined an attack on Baroness Falkner, chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), who earlier that day had said that the ruling – that a woman is defined by biological sex – clearly meant trans women could not use single-sex female facilities or compete in women’s sports.

When an MP said that Lady Falkner’s words were ‘pretty appalling’, Mr Bryant wrote: ‘Agreeed [sic].’

Last night, with the Government in turmoil, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Cabinet Secretary calling for an investigation into a statement by Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson, who reacted to the judgment by saying: ‘We have always supported the protection of single sex spaces based on biological sex.’

In her letter to Sir Chris Wormald, who is also the Head of the Civil Service, Ms Badenoch argued that it could constitute a ‘false public statement’ – because last June Ms Phillipson declared that trans women with penises should be able to use single-sex spaces.

In the messages, sent on Thursday evening, Culture Minister Sir Chris Bryant (pictured) joined an attack on Baroness Falkner, chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC

Writing on the WhatsApp group of LGBT+ Labour MPs, Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle said: ‘The ruling is not as catastrophic as it seems but the EHRC guidance might be and there are already signs that some public bodies are overreacting’ – a possible reference to the British Transport Police’s interim announcement that strip searches of trans women would now be done by male officers, not female.

Dame Angela added that ‘we have to get on with doing the stuff we said we’d do in the manifesto’, which included a pledge to protect ‘the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity’.

Another MP on the WhatsApp group wrote that it was ‘sad to see some institutions choose to ignore the Supreme Court’s very strong line that trans people are protected by the Equality Act too’. Dame Angela replied: ‘They won’t be feeling that way now and we need to remember that and organise.’

MPs agreed with her suggestion that they should seek a meeting ‘ASAP with [the] relevant Equality Minister’ after the Commons returns from Easter recess this week.

News of the WhatsApp messages came as thousands of trans rights campaigners descended on central London yesterday to rally against the landmark ruling.

The ‘emergency demonstration’ ended with at least two statues in Parliament Square daubed with graffiti, with ‘fag rights’ and a heart painted on the banner held by suffragist Millicent Fawcett. ‘Trans rights are human rights’ was also sprayed on the pedestal bearing a memorial to South African military leader Jan Christian Smuts.

Yesterday, other bodies vowed to challenge the ruling, with teachers voting at a conference in Liverpool to stop schools making ‘knee-jerk’ changes to their trans policies until the government issues further guidance.

The NASUWT union claimed the judgment could lead schools to make rules which put transgender teachers ‘at risk of harm’.

Labour has come under fire over its response to last Wednesday’s unanimous verdict. Health Minister Karin Smyth failed four times to clarify which changing room trans women should now use.

In contrast, Lady Falkner – who hailed the ruling for bringing ‘clarity’ – told the BBC: ‘Single-sex services like changing rooms must be based on biological sex.

‘If a male person is allowed to use a women-only service or facility, it isn’t any longer single-sex.’

She also agreed that the ‘enormously consequential’ court decision also meant trans women could not take part in female sports.

Lady Falkner, whose watchdog is working on an updated code of conduct for public services, said the NHS would now be pursued if it did not follow new guidelines on single-sex spaces.

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Current guidance says trans people should be ‘accommodated’ according to how they ‘identify’.

In 2023, Lady Falkner survived attempts to oust her from her job because of her staunch defence of women’s rights after the Mail exposed claims of an ‘ideologically motivated witch-hunt’ against her.

Interviewing her on the BBC’s Today programme last week, Nick Robinson said her position ‘has brought you extraordinary levels of personal grief’ – including once being described as a ‘Nazi who wants to dehumanise trans people’.

Last night, with the Government in turmoil, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Cabinet Secretary calling for an investigation into a statement by Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson

Mims Davies, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, said: ‘In public Keir Starmer and his Cabinet pretended they supported the Supreme Court judgment. But in private we know Labour are seething, as these texts prove.

‘Like so many brave women, Baroness Faulkner has suffered terrible abuse for standing up for the rights of women and girls. Now we know Labour will do all they can to undermine her work.

‘The Prime Minister needs to come out and say he will support the EHRC guidance when it comes out. Anything less will be Labour betraying the rights of women once again.’

Pressed on the issue last year, Ms Phillipson said: ‘If you were someone that had gone through that formal process of recognition you are, to all intents and purposes, for legal purposes, regarded as being in a different gender regardless of the sex into which you were born… I would think that in those cases people would be using female toilets.’

In her letter to Sir Chris about Ms Phillipson’s apparent new stance, Ms Badenoch said: ‘If ministers or advisers are found to have instructed civil servants to issue misleading material, then there is a clear route to resolve through resignation.’

Sir Chris and Dame Angela declined to comment.

'IT'S PATHETIC' UK Prison guard union chief claims Islamic terrorists are exempt from sniffer dog searches at Manchester jihadi attack jail

Checks were said to be axed after those held at the unit said coming into contact with the animals was against their religious beliefs

Julia Atherley, Kate Ferguson

Published: 21:10, 19 Apr 2025Updated: 21:10, 19 Apr 2025

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34550189/islamist-terrorists-exempt-sniffer-dog-searches/

PRISON officer union bosses say sniffer dogs have been banned from the unit that held terror plotter Hashem Abedi — after terrorists complained they offended their Muslim faith.

Officers at HMP Frankland used the hounds to search inmates as they returned from the exercise yard.

Robert Jenrick said: 'It is pathetic that HMP Frankland has folded to ­Islamist prisoners and allowed them to circumvent security checks'

But the head of the prison officers’ union says checks were axed after those held at the unit said coming into contact with the animals was against their religious beliefs.

Mark Fairhurst, national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, said: “When it first opened, every prisoner housed on that unit was thoroughly searched on the unit, and when they left the unit and when they returned to the unit. On occasion, dogs were used.

“The prisoners complained that it interfered with their religious beliefs.

“The management committee overruled the staff and removed the dogs from searching those prisoners.

“We appease these prisoners and pander to them. Why? Why are we so obsessed with upsetting prisoners, terrorist prisoners, whose sole purpose is to murder prison officers?”

Hashem Abedi, 28 — brother of Ariana Grande concert bomber Salman — threw hot oil and knifed staff with makeshift weapons at Frankland last weekend.

Three officers, including a woman, were said to be injured but the toll had been updated to four.

Frankland’s Separation Unit was set up in 2017 to keep terrorist prisoners from other inmates — to stop the spread of dangerous ideologies.

Among those held there, in the prison near Durham, was hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

It has since been ­emptied of prisoners, with Abedi moved to a segregation cell in Belmarsh Prison, South East London.

Ex prison governor Ian ­Acheson — who carried out a 2016 review into Islamist extremism — told The Sun on Sunday: “We are putting the security, safety and ­welfare of front-line staff constantly at risk because we’re pandering to people on the basis that staff fear being accused of racism, or bosses of legal challenge.”

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “It’s pathetic if HMP Frankland has folded to ­Islamist prisoners and allowed them to circumvent security checks.

“This would allow Islamist gangs to control prison wings across the country. Officers should not fear being labelled racist if they step in to restore order and control from radical Islamist prisoners.”

Last night Ministry of Justice sources insisted there had been no operational changes to the use of sniffer dogs at high-security prisons including Frankland.

But Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “Wherever I find there is an opportunity to strengthen our defences, and better protect our staff and the public, I will do so.

“The Prison Service will also conduct a snap review into whether protective body armour should be made available to front-line staff."

Some branches of the Muslim faith regard dog saliva to be impure and contact should be avoided with it.

Ex-Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, the first British Muslim Pakistani elected to Parliament, said: “The feeling is that you don’t know where the dog has been, so your clothing would not be appropriately clean for you to pray in after that happens.

“If you need to use dogs, you should be able to use them, with the right facilities available to wash and change afterwards.”