“You’ve said in the past ‘trans women are women’. Have you changed your mind?”@JustinOnWeb asks new Health Secretary James Murray if he’s shifted his position like predecessor Wes Streeting. pic.twitter.com/vRD5Mg4duN

— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) June 1, 2026

Well, well, well. After years of kowtowing to the trans lobby, it appears Labour ministers are finally catching up with the basics of biology. Today, newbie Health Secretary James Murray acknowledged that a woman cannot, in fact, possess male genitalia.

Previously, the Starmer loyalist had remarked: ‘I believe trans women are women.’ The phrase is famously seized on by trans extremists to demand access to women’s spaces, including toilets, sports and prisons.

Pushed on that position by the Today programme, Murray recanted. He declared: ‘I have changed what I would say. I wouldn’t say that phrase anymore.’

The Health Secretary attributed his change of heart to the Supreme Court ruling. He said that, following the landmark judgment, he agreed ‘single sex spaces should be protected on the basis of biological sex’. Murray singled out the NHS as a public service provider that must adhere to the ruling, ‘whilst at the same time believing in dignity for trans people’.

Mr S is unsure why anyone – let alone a cabinet minister – needs the Supreme Court to understand that men and women are defined by their biology. Still, he got there in the end, so… better late than never?