The UK’s top court on Wednesday ruled that the legal definition of ‘woman’ excludes transgender, in a landmark judgement which is set to define how equality laws are applied in the country.
The British Supreme Court ruled that the definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 of the UK constitution refers to “a biological woman and biological sex.”
The court made the judgement while deciding on a petition whether the trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) are protected from discrimination as a woman under the nation’s Equality Act 2010. The petitioners in Scotland had argued that the rights protecting trans woman should only safeguard cisgender women.
However, the Scottish government had maintained that trans woman with a GRC, which offers legal recognition of someone’s female sex, is legally a woman and should therefore be afforded the same legal protections.
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