MAFS trans star Ella Morgan today said she feels ‘scared’ and ‘nervous’ after the Supreme Court’s landmark gender ruling.
The reality star, 31, has vowed to carry on using female toilets after judges declared that the definition of a woman in the Equality Act should be determined by their biological sex.
Ella said the ruling, which has seen the likes of JK Rowling rejoicing by popping champagne bottles and smoking cigars, is a terrifying unknown.
She said she feels the trans community is now bearing the brunt of the damage caused by the likes of rapist Isla Bryson and ‘a few people’ doing a ‘few bad things’ who are not trans.
Outlining the impact the court ruling will have on people who make up less than one percent of the UK’s population, a passionate Ella told Good Morning Britain: ‘We are now the ones suffering and it affects us.’
She added: ‘As a voice for the trans community since I have been in the public eye. I have always seen the good in everything and I have always been very positive.
‘I hate to say this, but for the first time since I have had that title and role I actually do feel nervous and scared not only for myself but for the community because it’s the unknown.
‘It’s been said but there’s not clarity. We are not sure exactly what is going to happen in terms of passports, toilets, gym changing rooms.
‘There are so many things logistically that needs to be discussed and then to have the headline ‘”the definition of a woman is biological sex”, makes me feel and trans people feel that we are defined as a man.
‘I’m essentially a man in a lot of people’s eyes and now legally potentially on paper I could be and that’s scary.’
Ella revealed how during a recent hospital stay she had been left terrified medics would recognise who she was and put her on a male ward.
People have also in the past told her to use the disabled toilets, something she rejected.
‘I go to the gym and I use the female changing rooms – nobody has ever had any issues with me,’ Ella said.
‘Trans people should never have to justify their existence or debate our existence and who we are.’
The reality star defiantly said: ‘I still see myself as a woman and always will. Whether this legislation comes in and people agree with it or not, I still see myself as a woman.’
Ella’s comments come on the back of Harry Pooter author JK Rowling posting a picture of herself puffing on a cigar to gleefully declare: ‘I love it when a plan comes together.’
While trans activists reacted with fury to the decision, branding it ‘evil’ and calling it a set back for transgender rights, Rowling and others took to social media to celebrate it as a victory for women ad common sense.
And after sharing a post on X, formerly Twitter, suggesting she and her husband were clinking glasses of Champagne after the ruling, she has now followed up with a selfie of her smoking.
She accompanied it with the words: ‘I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.’
The 59-year-old has been a vocal supporter of campaign group For Women Scotland, throwing her cultural and financial clout behind its long-running legal battle against the Scottish government over the definition of a ‘woman’ in Scottish law.
That was the catchphrase of the A-Team character and leader George ‘Hannibal’ Smith, played in the 1980s TV series by the late George Peppard.
Rowling also hit back at suggestions she was smoking a ‘blunt’, associated with cannabis use, in the picture she shared.
She posted: ‘To those celebrating the fact that I’m smoking a blunt: it’s a cigar. Even if it decided to identify as a blunt for the purposes of this celebration, it would remain objectively, provably and demonstratively a cigar.’
She also told in replies how the photo was taken by one of her daughters and the drink she was sipping was an ‘Old Fashioned’ cocktail.
Earlier in the evening, Rowling had shared a photo on X of what appeared to be two glasses of prosecco under a sunny canopy, as she toasted the decision with her husband Neil.
The case centred on whether somebody with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) recognising their gender as female should be protected from discrimination as a woman under the Equality Act.
The Scottish government had argued that such people were entitled to sex-based protections, meaning a transgender person with a GRC certificate identifying them as female would count towards women’s quota.
But campaign group For Women Scotland claimed they only applied to people born female.
In an 88-page ruling, the justices said: ‘The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.’
They stated: ‘A person with a Gender Recognition Certificate in the female gender does not come within the definition of a ‘woman’ under the Equality Act 2010 and the statutory guidance issued by the Scottish ministers is incorrect.’