The United Kingdom The Supreme Court decided on Wednesday that A Woman Is someone who is born biologically female.
The result is excluded Transgender People from the legal definition and come in between after a long legal dispute For women Scotland (FWS) and the Scottish government.
The judgment was based on a legal challenge of 2022, the FWS against the Scottish Act of Parliament Definition of the term “woman” from 2018 with protected characteristics of gender conversion, those who lived as a woman On the website of the Supreme Court in Great Britain it says.
The Scottish civil courts were illegal, since it dealt with affairs that fall outside the legislative jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament. It was updated in 2023.
However, FWS moved to overthrow the new definition, since a person with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) who realizes that her gender is female is seen as a woman.
After an outline of controversial back and forth in Scottish dishes, FWS appealed to the Upper Court of Great Britain.
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On Wednesday, five judges decided that the British Equal Opportunities Act meant that trans women can be excluded from some groups and individual family spaces, including changing rooms, homeless accommodation, swimming areas and medical or advisory services only for women.
However, the Court confirmed that the judgment did not touch its rights and that they are still legally protected against discrimination in Great Britain. The reasons for the judgment find out that certain protective measures are reserved for biological women, but not transgender women.
The court said that the unanimous decision should not be seen as a victory by one side, but several groups of women who supported the appointment that celebrated outside the court and described the main victory in their efforts to protect against women.
“Everyone knows what sex is and you can’t change it,” said Susan Smith, co-director of for women Scotland.
“It is common sense, fundamental common sense and the fact that we have been a rabbit hole in which people tried to refuse science and deny reality, and hopefully this will now look back to reality,” she continued.
The verdict brings a certain clarity in Great Britain to a discussion that split worldwide.
In the United States, Republican states have banned the gender-known care of minors in the past four years, referring transgender women and girls from sports competitions that correspond to their gender and restrict the restriction of the public bathroom transverse people.
Activists of For Women Scotland (FWS) outside the Supreme Court in London, where they question the Scottish government as to whether trans women can be regarded as female according to the 2010 Equal Opportunities Act.
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In Canada under the Canadian Human Rights ActTransgender people are legally protected against discrimination based on gender identity and expression.
Bill C-16 was adopted in 2017 and added to the list of forbidden reasons for discrimination in Canada gender identity and expression.
– With files from the Associated Press
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