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The definition of a woman in the UK is now based on biological sex, after the Supreme Court made the decision earlier this week - but what does this mean for trans women? On Wednesday (16 April), Lord ...
But what does this look like in practice? The ruling is likely to mean that trans women are no longer able to access women’s bathrooms or changing rooms, and trans men are no longer able to ...
The case had its genesis in Scotland in 2022, where a group called 'For Women Scotland' challenged the definition of woman that the Scottish government was using in a 2018 law which was intended ...
The judges said while the word “biological” does not appear in the definition of man or woman ... that if the word “sex” did not only mean biological sex in the 2010 legislation ...
The UK's highest court has unanimously ruled that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act "refer to a biological woman and biological sex". Here, the PA news agency takes a look at what the ...
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously and unambiguously backed the argument that the definition of a woman in the Equality Act should be based on biological sex. Reading out the ruling, Lord Hodge ...
The judges said while the word “biological” does not appear in the definition of man or woman in the Equality ... The 88-page ruling stated that if the word “sex” did not only mean biological sex in ...