Back to Binary Basics: The UK Supreme Court Cuts Across Both Parliamentary Intent and Human Rights in For Woman Scotland

For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers: Supreme Court Rules on Definition of “Woman”

Facts For Women Scotland challenged the Scotland government’s statutory guidance which stated that the definition of a woman included those with a gender recognition certificate. Finding The unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court was that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex. The Court held that the language of the Equality Act 2010 (EA) intended for the words “sex”, “woman” and “man” to respectively refer to biologic…

Back to Binary Basics: The UK Supreme Court Cuts Across Both Parliamentary Intent and Human Rights in For Woman Scotland