#britsh

The UK supreme court has ruled that the term "woman" and "sex" refer to biology, not "a person's acquired gender, regardless of whether they held a gender recognition certificate"

This is "a victory for gender critical campaigners", such as "For Women Scotland" who celebrated the ruling outside the Supreme Court in London, and are financially backed by JK Rowling

This ruling is focused on Equality Act 2010, an act that protects a heck of a lot of people, and it rules that trans folk do not qualify as women under this act so aren't protected by it. It allows trans people to be barred from "women only spaces and serves", such as charities, and it is a slide backwards

Apparently trans folk are still protected under the 2010 act against discrimination and harassment, which just appears to be a different section of the Equality Act, section 7, which protects trans folks from discrimination, but it defines trans person as:

"A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex."