In a historic ruling, the Supreme Court declared that biological sex is the basis for defining a woman. The Supreme Court’s five justices unanimously agreed,
According to Lord Hodge, that “the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”
He acknowledged “the strength of feeling on both sides” and emphasized that trans individuals are still protected from discrimination under the law, warning against seeing the ruling as a victory for one side over the other.
“The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man,” the judges said in their 88-page decision.
The ruling may have a significant impact on the application of sex-based rights, particularly the operation of women-only areas. The ‘period of Keir Starmer telling us women can have penises.
