London – The UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a British equal law defines a woman as a biological woman born. Judge Patrick Hodge said that five court judges had unanimously ruled that “the terms ‘women’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Law refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”
The decision on the interpretation of the 2010 law means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as a woman should not be consulted to a woman for equal purposes under the legislation. But the court added that its ruling “does not eliminate the protection of trans people,” who are “protected from gender reallocation discrimination.”
The voice of the case of a 2018 law approved by the Scottish Parliament that indicates that it should be a 50% female representation in the councils of Scottish public bodies. That law included transgender women in their definition of women.
For women, Scotland (FWS), a group of women’s rights, had a challenge of that law, arguing that their redefinition of women went beyond the powers of Parliament. But Scottish officials issued a new orientation indicating that the definition of women included someone with a gender recognition certificate. FWS successful sought to revoke that.
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The ruling of the United Kingdom Superior Court occurs in the midst of the Trump administration efforts to People transgender bar to serve in the US Army. And Participating in women’s sportsand for prohibit The attention affirmed by the genre for minors, of which they face legal challenges in the courts of the United States.
FWS had said that the result of the case could have consequences in Scotland, England and Wales for sexual rights, as well as single -sex facilities, such as bathrooms, hospitals and prisons.
“Not linking the definition of sex to its ordinary meaning, meaning means that public boards could conceive that they comprise or 50% of men, and 50% of men with certificates, but still legal meet the objectives for female representation,” the group’s director, Trina Pedianly.
The challenge was rejected by a court in 2022, but the group received permission last year to take its case before the Supreme Court.
Aidan O’Neill, a FWS lawyer, told the judges of the Supreme Court, three men and two women, who, by virtue of the Equality Law, “sex” should have a biological sex again and how it is understood “in the ordinary and everyday language.”
“Our position is your sex, be it a man, a woman, a girl or a boy is determined from the conception in the uterus, even before his birth, by the body,” he said. “It is an expression of body reality. It is an immutable biological state.”
The correct group of women told among their supporters, JK Rowling, who, according to reports, donated tens of thousands of pounds to support their work. The writer of “Harry Potter” has expressed his voice to argue that the rights for women should not come at the expense of those born biological.
The opponents, including Amnesty International, said excluding transgender people from the protections of sexual discrimination in conflict with human rights laws.
Amnesty presented a letter in court saying that he was worried about the deterioration of rights for trans people in the United Kingdom and abroad.
“A general policy of prohibiting trans women of single -sex services is not a proportional average to achieve a legitimate objective,” said the human rights group.
