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UK Supreme Court Rules Legal Definition of 'Woman' Is Based on Biological Sex Under the Equality Act

  • The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of 'woman' excludes trans women, determining it refers to 'a biological woman and biological sex.'
  • Five judges unanimously decided that transgender women with a Gender Recognition Certificate are not treated as women under the 2010 Equality Act.
  • Justice Patrick Hodge stated that the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman.
  • Hodge also mentioned that this interpretation 'does not cause disadvantage to trans people, whether or not they possess a gender recognition certificate.
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The Supreme Court in Great Britain has ruled that a woman is a person who was biologically born as a girl. Human rights organizations fear that the ruling will restrict the rights of transgender people. – It is very worrying, says RFSL's union chairman Peter Sidlund Ponkala to DN.

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