Supreme court ruling

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/uk-supreme-court-rule-legal-definition-woman

How do we think this is going to pan out? My feeling reading the piece is that the court is going to side with GC women.....hope so but we will see.

Over reach is the word that comes to mind. They should be kicking themselves for driving us here.

Who wants to bet that the Darlington Nurses case will not reach court....?

Just found out and came running here to celebrate. I'm so relieved. Sex matters. Reality matters.

😍 This.

Here is the video of the Judgement

Ahhh... I see. Thank you. Yes, that makes sense now, same as if someone was incorrectly perceived to be gay, or of a certain ethnicity or religion, etc, and mistreated for that reason.

It's astonishing how the SNP have effectively killed off the Scottish independence movement by going all in on batshit fringe issues like this.

What are they actually for?

So bloody happy about this! Came out of a looonng meeting, expecting the worst, and am grinning like an idiot at my desk! 😀

Thank you a million times to all the brave women who got us here.

Here we go, woman’s hour!

It's going to take them a while.............🙄

Woman's Hour covering it now, Catriona Renton called straight over from BBC TV.

Long judgment, will take a while to fully work through the implications

Same. Am over the fucking moon with this ruling.

Now they just need to repeal the GRA as this ruling effectively states that the legal fiction it creates (that a man with a piece of paper is a woman) has little to no legal standing…

Clarifies what the word woman means in the Equality Act.

This will cause fallout for some situations

Isla Bryson in women’s prison despite crime commited a man.

Sandie Peggie

Help people to understand the law …

I'm so delighted but I've seen someone suggest that the Scottish Government might now take this to the ECHR. Please tell me this isn't possible....

It will certainly out the brakes on Labour's reforms to it

Background of FWS, who they are, what they have done.

Ooops, woman’s hour just called the isla ‘he’.

Does the ruling mean that if he a man says he is a woman we can say ‘no you aren’t’?

Well one is that Stonewall and Co who have been flogging advice which is bullshit have just been put firmly out of business. And anyone who continues to push their pseudo legal nonsense could well find themselves in court.

Lots of schools are going to have issues if they've been insisting on breaking single sex exemptions.

Slightly OT but Glinner is bloody huge!

Do we need to update the Equality Act?…

They’re for men, particulalry ones who claim to be women.

Happy place mark

I've been waiting to see how the Irish Times - very TWAW in the past, reversing a bit recently - covered this.

Firstly, it too them ages to cover it at all; secondly, it somehow found a bucket of cold water in the judgement to pour over us celebrating vipers:
“The terms women and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex, but we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph for one or more groups in our society at the expense of another – it is not,” said Patrick Hodge, deputy president of the supreme court. - Reuters

We're only celebrating fairness and common sense, and nobody wants anybody to lose the rights they are entitled to:

To women - our rights and no less. To trans people - their rights and no more.

(that's paraphrasing a Canadian men's group's slogan from the 1980s - the past, and Canada were different countries back then)

They could, but they'd be even fucking madder than they appear to have been so far to do so. They've already shelved their GRR Bill.