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Trans women are not legally women, [UK] Supreme Court rules
The Telegraph ^ | 16 April 2025 | Jack Maidment

Posted on 04/16/2025 3:50:21 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy

Transgender women are not legally women, the Supreme Court has declared in a landmark ruling.

Handing down judgment, Lord Hodge said it was the court’s unanimous view that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, not acquired gender.

Gender-critical campaigners hailed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for common sense, claiming gender “self-ID is dead”.

It follows a years-long legal battle between campaign group For Women Scotland and the Scottish Government over the definition of a woman.

Lord Hodge told the court: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

“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.”

In its 88-page ruling, the court added that the “concept of sex is binary” under the Equality Act 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: equalityact; gender; trans; unitedkingdom; women
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Not April first!

Who would have thought the Supreme Court of Good Ol'Britain coming up with a sensible ruling? Well done!

1 posted on 04/16/2025 3:50:21 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
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To: ScaniaBoy

And this can’t legally be considered a conservative man:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14616779/Elon-Musk-Ashley-St-Clair-baby-name.html


2 posted on 04/16/2025 3:51:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker (\)
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Trans women not really women?

I knew that.


3 posted on 04/16/2025 3:54:33 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: Liz

They’re not biologists.


4 posted on 04/16/2025 3:55:31 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: ScaniaBoy

There’s something fundamentally wrong with a society that will not recognize an obvious truth unless it is announced by one of their appointed officials.


5 posted on 04/16/2025 3:58:12 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: ScaniaBoy

this took an 88 PAGE report!!! Could have been done in one SENTENCE!


6 posted on 04/16/2025 3:58:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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To: Liz
I think all of us (except the loonies) knew that! :-)

From one of the reader of The Telegraph:

“Not even Monty Python would have had a sketch where the highest court in the land had to define a woman. It would’ve been dismissed as too outlandish.”

7 posted on 04/16/2025 3:58:36 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Ann Archy

Must have been a biological treatise! :-)


8 posted on 04/16/2025 4:00:04 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Ann Archy

Using XX and XY.

Note that the UK’s Deep State refused to do that.

The UK’s Deep State is retrenching while handily distracting from denying Tommy Robinson’s appeal today.


9 posted on 04/16/2025 4:01:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: ScaniaBoy
--- "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.”

It is amusing that this entered the messaging. The "self-ID" movement and resultant social rupture was all about seeking " a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another."

Once equality for all was stated so long ago, various groups -- mostly on the political Left -- have attempted to carve out something at the "expense of another." With a follow-on attempt to tell others what to say or do, and of course always to pry monetary judgments from "another."

A bakery refusing to bake a damn cake and being attacked for that was a poster child for this here in the US. Hopefully the now-legal clarity will begin to unravel the idiocy.

10 posted on 04/16/2025 4:07:54 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ScaniaBoy

BTTT


11 posted on 04/16/2025 4:15:30 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: ScaniaBoy

Oh, BOY!!!!!


12 posted on 04/16/2025 4:21:49 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: ScaniaBoy

Considering how crazy liberal UK Power Mongers have been lately, this is surprising!


13 posted on 04/16/2025 4:22:39 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: ScaniaBoy

Not me. Never thought I’d read a headline like that and certainly NOT from the UK.


14 posted on 04/16/2025 4:40:09 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: ScaniaBoy

I wonder how long he’s going to remain in office. Or alive.


15 posted on 04/16/2025 4:40:41 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Well, good. Now maybe “The Ladies” of our very own Supreme Court’s View will vote likewise when they have the opportunity, given that another country’s court has ruled on the subject.

Yeah, I know, that was Ruth Buzzie Ginsburg who took marching orders from globalists, but so few of them seem to follow the letter of “The Law” (tip o’ the hat to Frédéric Bastiat) so clearly laid out in our very own Constitution.

Curiously, as with the so-called “right to privacy” which issued from “emanations and penumbrae” from the same document, it is silent on the subject of “what is a man/woman” - some things, some definitions, like “day” or “night”, while clearly demarcated by a gray zone called “twilight” are patently obvious to everyone, every culture, everywhere on the planet from time immemorial.

“Gender Critical” is like calling someone who knows the BS coming out of the globalist church of anthropogenic global warmingism is a scam a “science denier” but here it is.

From UK supreme court, men are men, women are women.

I guess anyone else is a cross-dresser then.


16 posted on 04/16/2025 4:42:41 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: ScaniaBoy

From a Telegraph reader: “Not even Monty Python would have had a sketch where the highest
court in the land had to define a woman. It would’ve been dismissed as too outlandish.”


That about sums it up.


17 posted on 04/16/2025 4:52:55 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: ScaniaBoy

I hope people here understand just how FAR LEFT that the US Democrats are - when the UK, of all countries, has to give a LESSON to us, the United States, on Social Policy.

Likewise I hope (probably in vain) that people here realize just how DANGEROUS it is for us to ENABLE our Democrats by sitting out November elections because so-and-so is a bit too much of a RINO for our tastes.


18 posted on 04/16/2025 5:00:05 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BBQToadRibs2

The court decision is a realignment to conform with the upcoming Sharia laws in the UK caliphate.


19 posted on 04/16/2025 5:04:54 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Good on the UK supreme court for having a Captain Obvious moment....


20 posted on 04/16/2025 5:17:02 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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