•Activists celebrate after hearing the outcome of the Supreme Court’s ruling on how to define a ‘woman’, in London today
Britain’s Supreme Court said the legal definition of a “woman” is based on a person’s sex at birth, a landmark ruling with far-reaching implications to the bitter debate over trans rights.
In a win for Scottish gender-critical campaigners who brought the case to the UK’s highest court, five London judges unanimously ruled “the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman, and biological sex”.
The court added that the act also protected transgender people against discrimination.
