(Adnkronos) – The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of woman, based on the Equality Act 2010, corresponds to “biological sex”. By a unanimous vote, the highest judges thus upheld the appeal of the Scottish group For Women against the measure adopted by the Scottish government that transgender people with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) should be afforded the same protections guaranteed to biological women.
Judge Lord Hodge said the ruling should not be interpreted as a triumph for one side or the other, and stressed that the law already provides protections against discrimination for transgender people. “The unanimous decision of this Court is that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and sex,” he explained, “but we advise against reading this ruling as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not.”
