Watch: Trans activist claims ‘I'm under attack' in BBC interview
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A transgender campaigner and former Labour MSP candidate has clashed with a BBC presenter over the legal definition of a woman.
Heather Herbert appeared on BBC News claiming that the UK risked sliding into 'Trump's America' after the Supreme Court ruled that women are defined by biological sex.
Martine Croxall challenged the characterisation of the legal ruling, asking: 'How is this an attack on anyone?'
Ms Herbert responded by saying: 'I am a woman, so where do I fit in?'
Ms Herbert went on to claim that the ruling will not affect the daily life of trans people with regard to single-sex toilets and changing rooms.
Croxall noted that some gender-critical groups have said that as 'woman' now legally refers to biological sex, those who are not biologically female will be excluded from women-only spaces.
Ms Herbert then took issue with the BBC presenter, asking: 'Are you saying that I can't participate in public life?'
Later in the exchange, Ms Herbert again directly asked Croxall: 'Do you think I should be allowed in the women's toilets?
'If I'm not, if you're implying that I shouldn't, that would mean that I don't have any ability to be in public life at all. I can't go to work because you're saying that I can't use the loo at work.'
Croxall repeatedly made the point that it is not for her, as a neutral presenter, to decide on these issues.
In 2023, Ms Herbert publicly defended using an airport's disabled toilet to carry out dilation exercises following gender reassignment surgery. Dilation exercises are recommended by doctors following vaginoplasty.
Ms Herbert was previously a Labour MSP candidate, but switched to the Scottish Greens and became a co-convenor of the LGBTQ group Rainbow Greens.
This set out to create a 'progressive and inclusive Scotland where the LGBT+ community and intersex people can live and thrive freely'.
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