Supreme Court rules the term sex refers to 'biological women'

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Finally.

There is no “triumph” for me.

i am delighted though.
I feel relief that this reasonable request for clarity has been heard.

The judge also said “the law still gives trans people protection against discrimination.”

As it should do. No one ever argued otherwise.

Excellent decision.

I wonder if the dictionary will update it's definition for 'woman', which currently includes "an adult who lives and identified as a woman"? dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woman

I am feeling celebratory. It should never been an us or them issue.

Think it was two women and three men and unanimous. But the wording of what was read out was by two women and a man. (Hope I got that right).

So basically back to where we started and no different to existing provisions, ie biological women and transgender people being equally protected, but by definition separately, under the Equality Act.

That it’s taken this much of a fight to simply acknowledge that the existing provisions were fit for purpose, and that ‘Science’ and ‘Facts’ are a thing, is a fucking outrage.

I’m relieved but still so very angry at what we’ve put through in the name of ‘be kind’ and ‘progress’.

This is a fantastic decision and I hope that it will lead to a complete collapse of all this gender identity nonsense. I have had enough of it to last me a lifetime. Congratulations to all women everywhere who have resisted, objected, acted and defied, our effort and persistence is paying off - we will never wheesht!

I’ve also been called a bigot by people close to me. Its horrible. I’m very thankful for this ruling and the work of FWS and all involved.

I couldn’t agree more that this is wrong. The majority of people supporting trans rights that I know would also agree. The pushing of sex over gender has always been a fringe section of the trans community but for some reason is pedalled as if it’s the majority. It’s typically poorly informed “do-gooders” that push the opposite, ultimately doing more harm than good for trans people.

At last, but it's crazy that the definition was even up for debate! Common sense, and again relieved but not jubilant.

I am utterly relieved. I'm the parent of a female young person who has been told she 'must be Trans' if she had feelings for other female young people (she does, we chatted about it & she said she was gay). But the school 'Trans support' person (who is also the ASD support worker) phoned me with the 'changed name & pronouns she & yp had decided on today' & when I was initially confused (she called up talking about 'your son, X') I was accused of 'trans hate speech'. My yp is Autistic & semi verbal. We are in Scotland. Sorry to give anecdata, but this ruling protects all women, including my YP.

I doubt the judgment mentioned you at all.

Despite the insanity of the last few years, we all know you don't have to be a woman to know what a woman is and you don't have to be a man to know what a man is.

Thankfully, the three men and two women judges are sane.

Unfortunately, those were the voices heard though.

The fact it was needed is FUCKED UP but happy to see this none the less !!! 🙋‍♀️🧬

Thank you everyone for spelling out clearly what this all means.

What a fabulous fabulous day!! Couldn’t allow myself to believe it would happen 💪

Hopefully the term’ cis woman’ can be obsolete now.

Was it @Gettingmadderallthetime ? Fair enough. I only read the BBC comments.

Excellent decision, relieved that common sense has won out today.

So pleased to hear this. Feeling quite emotional.

I would literally never use this term, and I would firmly correct somebody if they ever referred to me as one…nope, I am a woman 😊

I agree with all on this thread. Thank goodness that common sense has finally prevailed. I'm appalled though that it took so long or was even needed at all?

Strange days.

Sensational. The change in direction away from the weaponised empathy crowd’s point of view will now increase in speed. Phew.

You avoid the discussions so have limited understanding of what is and was happening.

Sports bodies allow males into women only sport if they say they are women and female.

The UK are placing males into female prisons if the male says the magic words "I am a woman" if they did not say the magic words they were sent to a male prison, the police were recording male sex crimes as being carried out by women with a penis.

Fife NHS is spending tax money on an employee, a male doctor who stated in an ET that he expected that he would be brought by other staff to women who asked for a woman doctor. The medical hospital which provides sexed health care have by law to provide changing spaces based on the sex of the employee not on how the male doctor feels, yet they are defending allowing the male use the womens changing room.

Scotish women had to fight to remove wording from legislation which would have allowed a State appointed medical examiner in a rape/sexual assault case to carry out a medical exam for the State's court case on a witness who was raped/sexually assaulted when the witness had asked for a specific sex when the medical examiner was not of that sex. The argument for the State appointed medical examiner carrying out a second sexual assault was that the employee had "rights".

Great news.

I feel the same! It felt insulting, now there’s no reason to use it as woman quite rightly refers to biology.

I want to say a heartfelt thank you to all the women who have stuck their necks on the line to make this happen.

I’m sure you’ve been afraid how this would impact your jobs and your relationships but you’ve bravely forged ahead despite this.

Those of us trying to quietly hold to our principles but too scared to make lots of noise are in your debt.