Today the UK Supreme court gave a definitive answer: someone born a man cannot in the eyes of the law be a woman.
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When the judgement was read out, there were whoops of joy and hugs among the feminist campaigners, some who spent more than a decade battling to defend what the word woman meant.
The ruling by the Supreme Court over who can access single-sex spaces follows a long legal battle between women’s groups and the Scottish government, which had argued that transgender women with a gender recognition certificate should be treated as women like any other.
But while the women celebrated, trans campaigners expressed concern and shock, saying people were living in fear.
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