The United Kingdom Supreme Court Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday that transgender women do not conform to the legal definition of a “woman”, which is reserved for biological women born.
The five court judges agreed in the historical bankruptcy that “the terms” woman “and” sex “under the law of equality of 2010 of the country” refer to a biological woman and biological sex, “said Judge Patrick Hodge.
The ruling “does not eliminate the protection of trans people”, which are “protected from gender reassignment discrimination,” the court confirmed, however, a transgender person with documentation that recognizes them as females.
The definition was challenged in 2018 after the Scottish Parliament approved a law that indicates that women should increase 50% of the representatives in Scottish public boards, which according to Scottish officials included trans women with gender recognition or some of the legalized legalized ones, which sacrifices legal legalized legal, legal sacrificers, sacrificed, sacrificed.
Women Scotland (FWS), the women’s rights group that brought the legal challenge, argued that the redefinition of women of Scottish officials went beyond the powers of Parliament.
“Not linking the definition of sex to its ordinary meaning, meaning means that public boards could conceive that they comprise 50% of men, and 50% of men with certificates, but still legal meet the objectives for female representation,” the group’s director, Trina Budge Saint.
The result of the case could affect the sexual rights and facilities of a single sex throughout the United Kingdom, the group said.
With publication cables