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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's R from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.2 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:12.8 | This happened yesterday. |
0:14.7 | I don't think that biological males should be competing in female sporting events |
0:19.3 | and maybe that's a controversial thing, |
0:20.5 | but it just seems to me to be sensible. |
0:23.3 | And I also happen to think that women should have spaces |
0:29.4 | which are, whether it's in hospital, or prisons, or change rooms, or wherever, |
0:34.2 | which are dedicated to women. |
0:36.5 | That's as far as my thinking has developed on this issue. |
0:39.7 | And if that puts me in conflict with some others, |
0:43.7 | then we've got to work it all out. |
0:46.1 | That doesn't mean that I'm not immensely sympathetic |
0:50.4 | to people who want to change gender, to transition. |
0:55.6 | And it's vital that we give people the maximum possible love and support |
1:01.0 | in making those decisions. |
1:02.2 | But these are complex issues. |
1:04.7 | And I don't think they can be solved with one swift, easy piece of legislation. |
1:12.6 | It takes a lot of thought to get this right. |
1:14.9 | The Prime Minister speaking yesterday afternoon at a hospital to a group of journalists, |
1:19.5 | making his most direct intervention yet into the debate over sport, |
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