Members of the gender-critical campaign group For Women Scotland, which is financially backed by JK Rowling, celebrated as the UK supreme court ruled that ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex.
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Trans rights groups have expressed concerns about the repercussions of the ruling, which they say echoes Donald Trump’s anti-trans stance in the US
Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules ► https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/critics-of-trans-rights-win-uk-supreme-court-case-over-definition-of-woman
‘A huge reset’: trans rights campaigners and gender critical activists react to supreme court ruling ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/a-huge-reset-trans-rights-campaigners-and-gender-critical-activists-react-to-supreme-court-ruling
What does the UK supreme court’s ruling on definition of ‘women’ mean? ► https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/uk-supreme-court-legal-definition-woman
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