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.

Government spokesperson "We have always supported the protection of single-sex spaces based on biological sex.
This ruling brings clarity and confidence, for women and service providers such as hospitals, refuges, and sports clubs.
Single-sex spaces are protected in law and will always be protected by this government".

So, what about Keir "it should not be said that a woman doesn't have a penis, it's not right" Starmer and David "grow your own cervix" Lammy then? Do they now agree that the bepenised "women" of whom they speak should not be in the "single sex spaces" or what? Or that the freshly becervixed ones should or should not?

Also feeling emotional- initially so jubilant but now I feel angry and weirdly tearful that this situation could ever happen. It’s so terrifying, the power of misogyny and patriarchy and often doubled down by women themselves.
I’d live to think the issues of the past decade have finally been resolved but actually I’m wary of the punishment to come.

Or that everybody has the mutual, inalienable right to choose to have, or not to have, a sexual relationship with anybody else, for. whatever. reason. End of story.

Bullshit. The internet is forever so the evidence that this is not a right wing conspiracy to discredit trans people is there if you are even remotely interested. The right wing only seized on this issue in about 2020, until then it was just women being assaulted and taken to court for stating facts about biology.

Your opinions are informed by your need to seem virtuous rather than facts.

Agreeing with many.
Just relief.
Such worrying times.
Still much to be done to undo all the madnesses that have occurred over the years but this is a welcome step in the direction of reality.

What would they call those single gender toilets, now that it's been established that "woman" relates to biological sex? It's not like there is any definition of gender, after all.

Those toilets, if they have gaps around the door and no self-contained hand-washing facilities are now illegal, in that they don't fit the HSE requirements for mixed-sex facilties.

I wonder if organisations can start to sue Stonewall for all the costs of putting this right, given that they have systematically and deliberately misrepresented the law?

This has been the case for years

On MN I mean…

Absolutely relieved and delighted. Will be celebrating this evening after work. For Women Scotland and everyone who kept working for Women’s safety as well as common sense, to untangle the fankle that Nicola Sturgeon’s ridiculous GRA pushed on us. Reality wins, sex matters. Thank heavens.

I believe that the employees are entitled to single sex facilities and are therefore entitled to object to current arrangements and this ruling backs their legal protection to be allowed to object without fear of reprisal. And yes, the employer should be providing single sex toilets or fully gender/sex neutral ie fully enclosed (floor to ceiling) with a basin in the room with the toilet.

Fantastic news! Common sense has triumphed. I am incredibly relieved and thrilled by this ruling. Even shed a tear.

In the gap between great expectations (of government/society) and low delivery, humiliation and resentment grow. History shows us that when political choice is lacking and people see no prospect of relief, they become highly susceptible to the transfer of blame. This transfer—attacking refugees and fomenting culture wars—is already well under way. Techniques of distraction—scapegoating, an intense focus on issues that have little impact on general welfare (woke academics, curatorial decisions in museums and historic houses, unisex bathrooms, young people allegedly identifying as cats) coupled with frustration and the transfer of blame, open the door to authoritarianism.
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson, The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

"And yes, the employer should be providing single sex toilets or fully gender/sex neutral ie fully enclosed (floor to ceiling) with a basin in the room with the toilet."

In many cases, that'll be the accessible toilet then...

+1

I am utterly relieved too. I have an ASD DD who has been swept up in all this nonsense and thinks she’s trans, when she’s actually lesbian. I hope this is the end of it all for our vulnerable young girls.

I hadn’t heard of this case and just had to google to check you aren’t pulling our legs. My god. I’m absolutely flummoxed. This is so wrong - the NHS party line to protect men in dresses is absolutely petrifying

Been in meetings all morning, so only just been able to check the decision. I cried with joy and relief on the streets. Very emotional.

Not so long ago I would have felt confident that truth, reason, intelligence, fairness, justice and sanity would prevail. But having seen so many apparently intelligent people beclown themselves over this issue for so long, being happy to make utter fools of themselves and shit over the rights of women, had led me to a place of fear and uncertainty. Thank fuck reason prevailed.

So much gratitude for For Women Scotland and everyone else who have stuck their necks out for us all.

Yes - this! Who'd have thought, for the last few millenia, that the Supreme Court should have to rule on a simple, self-evident, commonsense fact like this one. Thank fuck indeed that they did the sensible thing.

Some one on my FB (with a TW son) is saying that she hopes all us anti Trans people will now be happy with all the bearded muscular TM in our toilets instead of TW (who apparently are undetectable)
I said yes, I was , very much so.

It's a shame it took a court case to understand biological reality.

I'm done with this nonsense that men can transition to women and vice versus. Sex is fixed. The poor vulnerable children sold the lie that if they dislike being a particular sex they can change to the other one. Laughable if not incredibly sad.

Now keep biological men OUT OF BIOLOGICAL WOMENS SAFE SPACES.

Great news! Thank you to all the brave women who have fought for this. It can be a lonely position right now.

This is brilliant news.🎉🎉🎉🎆

Thank goodness 🎉

Looks like the Guardian is still workshopping how to position this piece of news?

Quite the headfuck, isn’t it?

And so shocking that so very many people on the other side of the debate don’t seem to understand that this is fundamentally what they’re supporting - not just the rollback of women’s sex-specific rights and protections but the literal erasure of women’s rights as human beings.