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 ...
Who would have thought the Supreme Court of Good Ol'Britain coming up with a sensible ruling? Well done!
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
Trans women not really women?
I knew that.
They’re not biologists.
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.
this took an 88 PAGE report!!! Could have been done in one SENTENCE!
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.”
Must have been a biological treatise! :-)
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.
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.
BTTT
Oh, BOY!!!!!
Considering how crazy liberal UK Power Mongers have been lately, this is surprising!
Not me. Never thought I’d read a headline like that and certainly NOT from the UK.
I wonder how long he’s going to remain in office. Or alive.
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.
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.
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.
The court decision is a realignment to conform with the upcoming Sharia laws in the UK caliphate.
Good on the UK supreme court for having a Captain Obvious moment....
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