The long-running legal challenge was brought by the For Women Scotland campaign group \u2014 who argue sex is biological, binary and can\u2019t be changed \u2014 against the Scottish government.<\/p>\n
The case dates back to 2018 when the Scottish administration, led by then-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, passed legislation to establish gender quotas to get more women serving on public boards. <\/p>\n
It was eventually amended to count trans women with gender recognition certificates, confirming their female gender, as women for the purposes of the legislation.<\/p>\n
Scottish courts ruled, and then upheld in the Scottish government\u2019s favor, that sex is \u201cnot limited to biological or birth sex,\u201d and must include those in possession of a gender recognition certificate (GRC).<\/p>\n
But that was challenged in London\u2019s Supreme Court by campaigners. And, in its ruling Wednesday, the country\u2019s highest court said the meaning of the terms \u201csex,\u201d \u201cman\u201d and \u201cwoman\u201d in the U.K.\u2019s Equality Act must refer to \u201cbiological sex\u201d \u2014 with any other interpretation deemed \u201cincoherent and impracticable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The summary of the court ruling read: \u201cTherefore, a person with a Gender Recognition Certificate in the female gender does not come within the definition of a \u2018woman\u2019 under the Equality Act 2010 and the statutory guidance issued by the Scottish ministers is incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-running legal challenge was brought by the For Women Scotland campaign group \u2014 who argue sex is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,30,393,7219,4884,7853,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-25386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-equality","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-nicola-sturgeon","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114348966749018928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}