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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6104885" data-attributes="member: 48469">It&#039;s good to see such an obvious reality being officially acknowledged.From the WSJ:<h3>U.K. Supreme Court Rules Trans Women Can’t Be Defined as Women</h3><h3>Decision follows a yearslong legal battle over protections for women and female-only spaces</h3>4/16/25&quot;Britain’s top court ruled only those born female can be considered women, a landmark judgment that excludes transgender women from the legal definition and paves the way for tighter limits on female-only spaces and services.<a href="https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2024-0042" target="_blank">The decision</a> Wednesday by the U.K.’s Supreme Court came after a yearslong legal fight over the definition of a woman in a 2010 equality law, and could have far-reaching implications for the protections and freedoms given to transgender women in the U.K.“The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex,” said the court’s deputy president, Lord Hodge.The move marks a defeat for the Scottish government in its <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/scottish-leader-nicola-sturgeon-resigns-9a5425b9?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">long-running battle</a> with a women’s campaign group over the definition and legal protections for women as well as access rights to women-only spaces. The campaign group that brought the case, For Women Scotland, argued that such access should only apply to people who are born female.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6104885, member: 48469"] It's good to see such an obvious reality being officially acknowledged. From the WSJ: [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]U.K. Supreme Court Rules Trans Women Can’t Be Defined as Women[/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][SIZE=4][B]Decision follows a yearslong legal battle over protections for women and female-only spaces[/B][/SIZE][/HEADING] 4/16/25 "Britain’s top court ruled only those born female can be considered women, a landmark judgment that excludes transgender women from the legal definition and paves the way for tighter limits on female-only spaces and services. [URL='https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2024-0042']The decision[/URL] Wednesday by the U.K.’s Supreme Court came after a yearslong legal fight over the definition of a woman in a 2010 equality law, and could have far-reaching implications for the protections and freedoms given to transgender women in the U.K. “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex,” said the court’s deputy president, Lord Hodge. The move marks a defeat for the Scottish government in its [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/scottish-leader-nicola-sturgeon-resigns-9a5425b9?mod=article_inline']long-running battle[/URL] with a women’s campaign group over the definition and legal protections for women as well as access rights to women-only spaces. The campaign group that brought the case, For Women Scotland, argued that such access should only apply to people who are born female." [/QUOTE]

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