UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex

HURRAH!

Supreme Court's ruling on the legal definition of a woman - at a glance

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In short, the 88-page ruling, which you can read in full here, external, says:

• A person with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) in the female gender “does not come within the definition of a ‘woman’ under the Equality Act 2010 and the statutory guidance issued by the Scottish ministers is incorrect”

• Gender reassignment and sex "are separate bases for discrimination and inequality"
• The definition of sex under the Equality Act “makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man”
• Interpreting ‘sex’ as certificated sex “would cut across the definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ and thus the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way”

• The biological interpretation of terms in the Equality Act, “which we conclude is the only correct one, does not cause disadvantage to trans people, with or without a GRC (gender recognition certificate)”
• Nothing in the ruling "is intended to discourage the appointment of trans people to public boards or to minimise the importance of addressing their under-representation on such boards"