It Should Never Have Come to This

It Should Never Have Come to This

On 16 April 2025, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the words “woman” and “sex,” as contained within the Equality Act 2010, should be interpreted as referring strictly to a person’s biological sex, not her or his self-described gender identity. It was a major victory for women who’d been raising concerns about the sanctity of protected female spaces since 2018. That was when Theresa May’s UK government opened a public con…