Former Loose Women panellist India Willoughby has defended herself after her appearance on the programme. The 57-year-old was watching Fiona Bruce alongside Jenny Gilruth, John Lamont, Ian Murray and journalist Ella Whelan. During the Question Time debate surrounding trans women prisoners, one audience member received a huge round of applause when she insisted “you can’t change sex”.
The audience member suggested those who have lived as women and undergone gender reassignment surgery should not be allowed in female single-sex spaces.
She was heard saying: “We don’t allow men into female spaces for good reason.
“There are good men and there are predatory men, we should not allow trans into female spaces.
“There are good trans and there are predatory trans and that’s a fact. Women and children have to be safe.”
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In another video, she thanked fans for their support saying that after Question Time she felt like “absolute s***”.
She added: “I actually switched my phone off because I thought, Twitter is going to be horrific, a nightmare.
“Then I went on Twitter and fearing the worst and you wonderful people have shown me so much love and it’s not what I was expecting.
“I just want to say thank you.”
The newsreader and presenter is Britain’s first transgender national television newsreader and the first transgender co-host of Loose Women.
Willoughby left GB News in June 2021 after accusing the broadcaster of “demonising transgender people”.
Question Time airs Thursdays from 8pm on BBC iPlayer and 10.35pm on BBC One.