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UK Supreme Court makes unanimous decision on definition of a woman
Sky News UK ^ | April 16 | Sky News

Posted on 04/16/2025 1:53:35 PM PDT by RandFan

The UK Supreme Court has issued a landmark judgment on how a woman should be defined in law.

The long-running legal challenge centres around how sex-based rights are applied through the UK-wide Equality Act 2010.

The judges were asked to rule on what that legislation means by "sex" - whether biological sex or "certificated" sex as legally defined by the 2004 Gender Recognition Act.

They unanimously decided the definition of a "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refers to "a biological woman and biological sex".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


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Yes I know been posted a few times but check out the celebration pictures and videos. Quite a day. I'm delighted for the women and girls groups who fought this long running and costly battle with no certainty of success.

We're so used to these "wins" going the other way...

1 posted on 04/16/2025 1:53:35 PM PDT by RandFan
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I’m not sure if I should be stuned or not stuned.


2 posted on 04/16/2025 1:56:21 PM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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Does Ketanji know about this?


3 posted on 04/16/2025 1:56:38 PM PDT by rdl6989
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So when are they going to be arrested for offending the trannies? This is UK remember.


4 posted on 04/16/2025 1:57:38 PM PDT by fruser1
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It’s a win, but it’s kind of like having the Court confirm that 2+2=4..


5 posted on 04/16/2025 2:00:54 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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Next up is a ruling that bears don’t use toilet paper and the Pope is not Catholic.


6 posted on 04/16/2025 2:03:37 PM PDT by Raycpa
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Will the US Supreme Court do it’s duty? Or condone the democrat madness.


7 posted on 04/16/2025 2:07:07 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Kentagi is the beauty queen of the soopremes.


8 posted on 04/16/2025 2:07:26 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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Hope they didn’t post their decision online ... the UK Gestapo will be kicking down their doors and arresting them for hate speech.


9 posted on 04/16/2025 2:40:00 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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Color me surprised. Ketanji Brown Jackson actually does know that a woman is.


10 posted on 04/16/2025 2:58:58 PM PDT by BJ1
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lmao on myself. ooops UK court.


11 posted on 04/16/2025 2:59:59 PM PDT by BJ1
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They’ll say “but ‘sex’ isn’t ‘gender’”.


12 posted on 04/16/2025 3:35:41 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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Absolutely shocked. The UK is usually at the leading edge of the destruction of the western world. Hard to believe they got this one right.


13 posted on 04/16/2025 3:52:32 PM PDT by power2 (JMJ)
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No, that is the UK Supreme Court not the Scotus. She still doesn’t know what a woman is because she is not yet a biologist. lol


14 posted on 04/16/2025 3:52:44 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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Who knew that the UK supreme court had so many biologists on it?


15 posted on 04/16/2025 4:26:06 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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That something so obvious needs the ruling of a Supreme Court, shows the level of insanity we’re living in.


16 posted on 04/16/2025 5:35:47 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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the UK Gestapo will be kicking down their doors and arresting them for hate speech.

No: what the excerpt does not include is:

Delivering the ruling at the London court on Wednesday, Lord Hodge said: "But we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not. "The Equality Act 2010 gives transgender people protection, not only against discrimination through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, but also against direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment in substance in their acquired gender..."statutory protections are available to transgender people, whether or not they possess a gender recognition certificate."

17 posted on 04/16/2025 5:52:53 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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Duh,


18 posted on 04/16/2025 5:57:15 PM PDT by Recompennation
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It’s better than a loss even if it is obvious


19 posted on 04/16/2025 8:31:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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Here's some British background music for this thread.

     She's A Woman - The Beatles

     Girl - The Beatles

20 posted on 04/16/2025 8:58:37 PM PDT by Songcraft
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