The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has today ruled that individuals who identify as transgender women should not be legally defined as women.
Handing down the court’s judgement addressing whether sex-based protections should only apply to people who were born female, Lord Hodge said that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex and not to acquired gender, reports the Daily Telegraph.
“The unanimous decision of this court is that the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex,” the judge told the court.
“But we counsel against reading this judgement as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.
“The Equality Act 2010 gives transgender people protection not only against discrimination through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, but also against direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment in their acquired gender..”
More: https://thecatholicherald.com/uk-supreme-court-rules-trans-women-arent-legally-women/
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