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Big Brother winner Nadia Almada has insisted that she'd 'rather refuse treatment than wake up on a male ward' as she slammed what she deemed a 'terrifying' Supreme Court transgender ruling on Friday's episode of Good Morning Britain.
The 48-year-old, who is a transgender woman, shot to fame after winning the fifth series of Big Brother UK in 2004.
On Thursday she appeared on the ITV show to discuss how The Supreme Court recently announced that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex in a landmark judgement.
Nadia said to presenters Adil Ray, 50, and Charlotte Hawkins, 49: 'It's a terrifying times for me.
'It does, the whole idea that we are not a woman for that matter, based on our sex.
'It's terrifying. For me, for us, people from our generation who have lived with those kind of experiences of being discriminated and now, having those protected rights taken away from us, it's very very dehumanising.
Big Brother winner Nadia Almada insists she'd 'rather refuse treatment than wake up on a male ward' as she slams 'terrifying' Supreme Court transgender ruling on Good Morning Britain
The 48-year-old, who is a transgender woman, shot to fame after winning the fifth series of Big Brother UK in 2004
'It's terrifying. I don't even know what else to say.'
Adil asked her what really pains her at the moment, to which she replied: 'It pains me that my identity is being questioned and also where the sex and gender comes first.
'With The Supreme Court ruling, it's making such a binary terms, it doesn't really include non binary or recognise non binary or intersex people.
'Is really sex binary? I don't think it is.
'For me, it's about my identity, the most of the time, people identify me as transgender, but I believe in my way, of how I carry my life, I'm a woman first and a second of trans identity.
'This is how I live my live and how I navigate through society.
'This is quite important to me, if I'm going to be classified anything other than female because of certified sex versus birth sex, it's troubling times.
'Generally speaking with the community, we all express the same sentiment.
Nadia said on the show: 'For me, it's about my identity, the most of the time, people identify me as transgender, but I believe in my way, of how I carry my life, I'm a woman first and a second of trans identity'
'The idea of waking up in a male ward - I would rather refuse treatment then have to be subjected to that…'
She continued: 'Once this happened [the Supreme Court ruling], it triggered the whole idea of how feminine I am, how are people going to see me, do I have the right westernised views of what a woman should look like or present as.
'And then I went insane about my identity.'
Adil read out the court ruling, which states that trans rights will not be protected in the Equality Act.
Nadia said: 'It also means that I could be questioned by vigilantes under the pretext that they can call us trans women or not.
'Where is my safety on that regard?'
Nadia is best know for her stint on Big Brother.
During her stint on the Channel 4 show, viewers were aware that she was transgender, but she did not tell her housemates.
In a chat on Loose Women last year, Nadia was asked if she would do the same now.
She said: 'Yes, I would do the same and it's nobody's business really.
'I think it was very much a secret because that's how it was, we were unrepresented everywhere as a woman with a trans identity.
'It wasn't something that we would come out publicly and be visible in any aspect of our society.
'My narrative was that it is only a facet of me. In the house I took control and I created my own narrative. Before going in the house I'd been pigeon-holed, labelled with all the derogatory terms so I just wanted to be that young lady.'
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