Supreme court ruling

[mids2019]

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.

This.

Starmer has always said that the EqA and GRA are good laws, and gender and sex are different.

He could never say what a woman is, or be clear about what spaces and opportunities are sex based or gender based, but he'll ignore this.

Luckily for him the number of male and female labour MPs are balanced, so hes not running any all women shortlists.

The thing is, this has been explained so clearly so many times. For most of the time, sex doesn't matter, but when it does matter, it REALLY matters.

Joshua Rozeberg (used to be the BBC’s legal correspondent) in an interview with Sky News described the ruling as balanced and pragmatic. He suggests that the ruling ensures both women and trans identified people’s rights are protected and that the Scottish government are the losers!

One of those comments:

“It benefits no one. Not one single person will be positively affected by this ruling.”

This one seems to have erased 51% of the population in one fell swoop, with a snap that Thanos would envy.

We really don’t exist as actual human beings to them, do we?

Ah well. Today I am celebrating a rather large nail in the coffin of the toxic misogyny that is genderist ideology.

Maybe one day there’ll even be a Netflix series about it, and Starmer will say all secondary school pupils should watch it!

Now that would be an education.

It's such wonderful news. I'm loving the photo of Helen Joyce pouring glasses of fizz outside the court 😁

So many women have worked so hard, and risked so much, and lost so much, to make today happen

No I didn't say I didn't care. I said it wasn't a big issue in a lot of folks lives. But I think it's the right decision. And it hasn't been on the news much till today.

I can't believe how relieved I am that woman means what it always should have meant. Thank you FWS, Sex Matters and everyone else involved!

It is balanced

Single Sex spaces can be created when needed

It does not compel anyone to create them but it knocks the Stonewall Law TWAW bollocks out of the park.

Has anyone seen Butters lately?

I’m assuming that a legal ruling that scuppers Butters from force-teaming Butterself with women isn’t going to make Butters very happy…

I’m already positively affected.

It’s great.

It is the right decision.

Thank God some women worked so hard, took such an interest and made it happen.

As this case was confirming the legal definition of a woman in the equalities act, I now want to understand the implications of the ruling when it comes to things like:

• crime recording and statistics
• positions reserved for women both in private and public sector
• transwomen performing sensitive and personal roles in healthcare and women’s spaces (e.g. careers of elderly women, rape crisis centres etc.)
• sports (particularly grassroots)
• toilets and other single sex spaces (won’t they just be redefined as single gender spaces by many organisations and businesses?)
• etc.

They're sodding clueless aren't they. I'm positively delighted by this, is that the same thing. 😁

Brilliant news

This is brilliant news.

But do we still need an absolute definition in law, as to what a woman/female actually IS?

Have they come out and said what biological sex actually IS?

Because you just know there are TW who will say there are different ways to define sex - hormonal, phenotype, blah fucking blah.

Have they addressed the definition with no way to argue it? Chromosomal, set up for large gamete producing, etc.

Otherwise we are just in for round two of this shitshow.

I only heard the key points but surely the fact the judgment referred to single sex spaces means that organisations can't just swap out sex with gender.

I'm astounded reading some of the Reddit posts how many are claiming to be "intersex"......and one claims to be "intersex" and pregnant!! 🙄

eye opening to see the proof that trans people just don't get that it's an invasion of private spaces.

Well it's the go to thing now, to try and undermine the idea that sex is binary and to try and make themselves more legitimate.

Unfortunately since the court decided that sex is biological and DSD are sex dependent this isn't going to get them as far as they think.

I know the feeling.Don't you just hate it when a turd refuses to come out?

Bummer.

Still now women is legally defined a biological female, calling an event a 'Women's' and allowing biological males to enter might mean then can be reported to the Advertising Standards Authority. They have the power to levy fines.

Looks like it's not just the patriarchy we've been fighting 🙄

Don't you worry; many women took up the fight ..... so that you and your daughters didn't have to. To all of them, thank you from the bottom of my heart; you're amazing 😘xx

I’m assuming that organisations can decide to develop policies or report data that is based on grouping people by gender identity or by sex, or by combining them.

The ruling doesn’t specify that data or policy must aggregate or disaggregate sex and gender identity, it clarifies that when existing law refers to ‘women’ it refers to natal women, not males with a gender identity.

Not sure about the others but positions reserved for women is what the case was all about.

These are pre existing single sex spaces.

What is needed now is for employers, government etc to create single sex spaces where needed.

They can no longer be deterred by Stonewall TWAW nonsense.

I'm now going to watch with interest as all the house of cards come tumbling down. Ipso, courts, and how far reaching our laws are. Can't they be used as precedent in places like US and Canada.

Haven't had time to catch up so this post may be a load of bollocks

FWS you are brilliant. Sticking it out when all looked lost