in World News UK Supreme Court Rules Trans-Identifying Men Are Not Women
By Mairead Elordi
The ruling is a watershed moment in Britain’s shift on gender ideology
The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled Wednesday that the legal definition of “woman” is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women.
In the landmark judgment, the British Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of “woman” in equality legislation is a “biological woman and biological sex,” and the “concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.”
The ruling is a watershed moment in Britain’s shift on gender ideology, which has faced a referendum in Europe in recent years, especially as the harms of transgender drugs and procedures on children have come to light and sparked legal challenges.
The court case was about whether trans-identifying men with a “gender recognition certificate” that legally recognizes them as female are protected from discrimination as a woman under the 2010 Equality Act.
The court ultimately ruled that interpreting sex as simply as what someone’s gender certificate says would be “incoherent,” according to a summary of the ruling.