Broadcasters must air view that trans women are women, says Ofcom

Broadcasters must give airtime to claims that biological men are women when covering trans issues, Ofcom has said.

The media regulator warned GB News in a letter seen by The Telegraph that it could not treat the controversy as settled, despite the Supreme Court victory for women’s rights campaigners in April 2025.

But it’s not a controversy.

Granted, there are people who try to make it one. There are people who claim that biological men are women. But they’re wrong; wrong in a very crude obvious unmistakable sense. It’s not a genuine controversy, it’s a performance of controversy based on an absurd blatant falsehood.

The media regulator warned GB News in a letter seen by The Telegraph that it could not treat the controversy as settled, despite the Supreme Court victory for women’s rights campaigners in April 2025. The court decided that under the Equality Act, the word “woman” means a biological woman rather than a person’s self-identified gender.

As a result, women-only spaces have a legal right to be protected. Sir Keir Starmer has told hospitals and universities to obey the law and ban trans women from female lavatories “as soon as possible”. However, Ofcom has said that the judges’ ruling does not mean the matter is “settled”.

So it’s not “settled” that men are not women? I say it is settled (and has been all along). It’s farcial to pretend that’s a real controversy and really up in the air.

GB News wrote to Ofcom asking it to confirm that the ruling had settled the matter of the definition of a woman by saying it was defined by biological sex and not gender identity. The station also asked the regulator to confirm that television companies would be able to refer to people such as sports stars solely by their biological pronoun.

But Ofcom said the Supreme Court only ruled on the definition of a woman in terms of the Equality Act and not on its meaning in other contexts.

Oh ffs. Will everyone please just grow up? There is no non-fake controversy over which people are women. Everybody knows that it’s women who are women, and not men in lipstick or high heels or suspendies and a bra.