FWS v Scottish Ministers will be handed down Weds 16th April at 9.45am

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The Ruling in FWS v Scottish Ministers will be handed down next Weds 16th April at 9.45am It will also be streamed via the UKSC website, so you can watch live.

https://x.com/ForWomenScot/status/1910272949350695371

So what is the point of a GRC?

I did not think we would win. My tummy has been in butterflies all morning

Standing on a beach in the highlands with tears Ian my eyes and a big grin on my face. Thanks you FWS and everyone else brave enough to speak the truth.

Omg!!!!!!!😃😃😃😃😃😃

I'm gonna have to watch again because I now can't take a single thing in. My brain doors have slammed shut. Helpful reaction to immense relief right there.

Wow!!!!!!

Here's the quote

"The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex"

Same. I've been braced. Going to take a while to unwind

Say it again

Thank you FWS and everyone involved. What a very good morning.

Exactly my thinking. If this changes “gender for all purposes” but not sex in the Equality Act, what’s the point of the GRA?

Brilliant news, but its shameful that women have to take cases like this all the way to the supreme court in the first place.

Well done FWS!!

Oh wow.

Thanks, I've just put it on.

And thank you for this thread. I couldn't bring myself to watch live before as I just couldn't bear sitting through another round of awful.

But now...

Thank you thank you thank you FWS - you are absolute heroes

Honestly it’s times like these when I wish we were all in a big room together & could have the biggest fucking party ever!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I am in tears. Did not expect this at all. FWS and all your supporters, you are astonishing, amazing, fucking incredible women. Love you all so much.

I'm going to need Michael Foran here because its about apply and disapplying particular articles. The EA enacts group based protections and requires positive action on employers and others. It should be applied consistently to keep groups coherent. To interpret certificated sex woudl cut across these and create heterogenious groupings

Amazing, as it was intended to be.
I'm very happy 😊

😎💃🍾

I am so relieved. I too was bracing myself. Even though I did have a huge regard for the cogent arguments put by FWS and thought the other side was incoherent at best. Amazing!

So pleased, thank you to all of you for your work, I’ve not been around in a while but a long time ago under a different account I started a thread called “break it down for me” and there began the madness. Lots of love to you all.

Paraphrasing wildly … going down the TWAW route would be “incoherent”. Well yes.

No more pregnant "people"!

That's tremendous news! Well done FWS, you are legends! 💪