by Daniel Martin, Telegraph
Media regulator warns GB News that it cannot treat the controversy as settled despite Supreme Court ruling in April
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.
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”.