What is a woman? The UK Supreme Court ruling
On April 16th, the Supreme Court in London ruled unanimously that “the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.
The ruling came in response to a legal dispute between the activist group For Women Scotland and the Scottish government over whether trans people with gender recognition certificates (GRC) identifying their gender as female were considered as having the sex of a woman.
For Women Scotland had argued that the sex-based protections in the Act should only apply to people born female and that sex is “immutable biological state”…
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