Big Brother star 'terrified' as she fights tears over feeling forced to leave the UK

Big Brother winner Nadia Almada has revealed that she's contemplating leaving the UK after the . Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the terms "women" and "sex" in the Equality Act referred to biological women and biological sex.

Speaking on , Nadia opened up about how she no longer felt safe as a transgender woman in the UK. "It's terrifying times for me," she said. "The whole idea that we are not women for that matter based on our sex is terrifying. For me and for us, my generation who have lived with those experiences of being discriminated and now having those protected rights taken away from us. It's very very dehumanising."

Nadia added that if she was taken into the male ward of a hospital as a result of this ruling, she would refuse life-saving treatment. "The idea of waking up in a male ward - I would rather refuse treatment than be subjected to that," she said. After challenged by host Adil Ray, Nadia explained: "The moment that Supreme Court ruling happened, it was super dysphoric for me. You have to understand, I've been trying to work through this and tried to be not super vigilant and hyper sensitive about things.

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"I've embraced all parts of who I am but once this happened, it triggered the whole idea of how feminine am I, how people will see me, do I have the right to Westernized views of what a woman should look like?"

Nadia became upset as she spoke about how she may be challenged by members of the public as a result of the ruling.

"It means that I could be questioned by vigilantes under the pretence that they could call us trans women or not. Where is my safety in that regard. We don't have equal civil rights and freedoms," she said, fighting tears.

"That to me is very frightening because there is going to be a lot of interpretations and how we're going to navigate in society and where is this going?"

Last year, Nadia made the headlines after showing off her six stone weight loss and wowing fans will how she looked 20 years after her win. Speaking to OK!, Nadia revealed that her mum suggested that she have the gastric sleeve procedure. "I spent with my family in Portugal. And when she suggested I should undergo the surgery, it provided the reassurance I needed. I was a size 20 and a mere shadow of my former self," she said.

"I was a size 20 and a mere shadow of my former self."

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