The Supreme Court just passed a historic judgement related to biological gender, referring to transwomen as not legally women.
This could end transgender access, explained lord Hodge, who shared how all five Supreme Court justices had decided together that the words woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
He shared how the strength or feeling on both sides should be in line and warned against seeing the judgment as a triumph for one side over the other, stressing more about how this law still provides trans individuals with protection against issues like discrimination.
In the 88-page ruling, the judges shared how the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes it clear how the concept of gender is a binary one and refers to one as a male or a female.
The decision could go out to far-reaching implications on how gender based rights are applicable, including how female-only spaces were allowed to operate.
Judgment also marks the end of a long-running legal case between the government of Scotland and a women’s group over the actual definition of a female in Scottish legislation mandating 50% of female representation across public boards.