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

Fabulous news! 🎉

My bad, I thought you were using hyperbole to comic effect.

The laughing face is turning out to be a bit problematic all round.

Completely agree!

It has brought me to tears today as I honestly thought this would go the other way!

Thank you to all the brave women who have stood loudly & proudly at the front (for those of us too afraid of losing our jobs to speak out) & especially to FWS. You ladies are amazing!

Have we all seen that the SG has replied? I will just copy and paste part of their statement - you can all draw your own conclusions…

The Scottish government acted in good faith in our interpretation of both the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010; and our approach was guided by the published guidance of the EHRC.

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Just received a text from my Dad asking if I had seen the news and how brilliant it is!

I really wish I could take the afternoon off and go and sit outside a bar in the sunshine with a glass of champagne but I’m off next week so really busy. Bastard work.

Ie we lied, bullied and winged it. And we would'a got away with it, if it weren't for you pesky wims!

And a big boy did it and ran away…

murasaki · Today 12:12

Sky News says that Monroe Bergdorff is speaking to legal experts about how this will affect their community.

I heard him say Ellie Gomersal. Of course, they might have wheeled Mr. B out as well...

Be interesting to see what NHSFife do now. What they SHOULD do, is back the fuck down but if they don't....

”Jane Fae” on the news now saying “yes but they haven’t defined biological women “ 🙄

I think they will try to fall on their sword as round 1 went badly enough for them.

Unsurprisingly disingenuous.

Here's a clue, Jane, not you.

Ah, but they did! They covered all their bases. It can’t be helped if the TRAs and their handmaidens can’t be arsed to read the whole thing…

I think the judgment could be a convenient fig leaf for Fife to push for a settlement.

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Omg I AM BAWLING. Thank you for that link.

They said they were a biological woman because they weren't a robot, but AFAIK they hadn't had their robosomes tested, so how would they know?

Just seen this post from Colin Wynter KC on x reminding people that the decision states what the law has always been and not what it should mean from the date of judgement

Rather we are judged on the outward expression of our sex category, our gender.

So RMW is stating that gender is simply "which sex you look like"?!

Ooh yes, that's important.

My (captured) organisation not yet posted anything on our Women's network... wondering if they actually will

Yeah not sure RMW wants what they say they want tbh. I have always been of the opinion that the law cannot be based on some kind of beauty contest.

I can't watch this too many times.

LOVE how the judge has been at such pains to spell out that trans people still have protection in law from the Equality Act, etc.

Cuts off at the knees the protestations we know are coming.

Shelagh on LBC is being incredibly patient with Phoebe right now

Love the coverage in this. Not important my backside.

So much gratitude to FWS for taking this to the Supreme Court and winning.