The UK Supreme Court ruled that the definition of a “woman” in a British act of equality belongs to the “biological sex”. It is reported by BBC News. We are talking about a judicial dispute that has lasted since 2018. Then the Scotland parliament adopted a bill designed to ensure the gender balance in the reign of state institutions. The Group for the Protection of Women’s Rights For Women Scotland (for women’s rights, FWS) opposed this decision. The organization noted that the authorities included transgender people in quotas stipulated by this law. Since then, the proceedings have been held at various courts of Scotland, recalls the “Russian BBC service”. The government claimed that transgender people with a certificate of gender recognition have the right to protect on a gender basis, and For Women Scotland stated that these rights are applicable only to people who were determined as female. In the end, the judges of the UK Supreme Court decided that the definition of a “woman” in the act of equality of 2010 does not include transgender women with sex recognition certificates. The court announced that the act of equality “clearly indicates that its provisions concern the biological sex at birth, and not acquired, regardless of whether a person has a certificate of gender recognition.” Judge, the chairperson at the hearing, emphasized that the act of equality provides transgender people with discrimination and persecution. Force Women Scotland is supported by British writer Joan Rowling, who was accused of transfobia. After the court’s decision, she wrote on the social network X that outstanding women from FWS “ensured that this case was considered by the Supreme Court, and, having won, they defend the rights of women and girls throughout the UK.” (Tagstotranslate) News
