Edinburgh Live’s Whatsapp Community here<\/b><\/a> and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n\u201cYou stupid women should feel deeply ashamed for being so stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former financial adviser and mum-of-three Susan, 53, added: \u201cIt would never occur to us to send messages like this or to call our opponents ugly. But we get this every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marion, Susan and Caithness farmer Trina, 54, met on parenting website Mumsnet in 2018.<\/p>\n
During their campaigning, Marion said trans activists were also continually throwing \u201cinsults\u201d at them. She explained: \u201cFirst they said we\u2019re transphobes, then they called us homophobes, then it was bigots, now they say we\u2019re pro-Trump. It\u2019s all completely ridiculous.”<\/p>\n
By 2020, the Scottish Government and then first minister Nicola Sturgeon were increasingly focused on passing the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which would usher in self-ID, and lower the legal age when young people can transition to 16.<\/p>\n
The bill was passed in 2022, but blocked the following year by then UK prime minister Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n
Susan, who underwent a single mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer, gave a speech in the Scottish Parliament 10 days after her surgery.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cHaving gone through a mastectomy myself, which I needed to save my life, I am disgusted by people who celebrate giving mastectomies to healthy young women as a \u2018gender-confirming\u2019 surgery. I think it is genuinely wicked\u201d.<\/p>\n
FWS\u2019s argument with the Scottish Government boiled down to whether the Equality Act 2010 says that a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate, which can be bought for \u00a36, is the same as a female.<\/p>\n
The Scottish government said it did. FWS disagreed. In February last year, the women were given permission to appeal to the Supreme Court after the Court of Session ruled against them.<\/p>\n
Marion said: \u201cIt was a big gamble but we decided the appeal was worth it, because even if we lost, it would show that the law currently makes no sense\u201d.<\/p>\n
It ruled that, while the Gender Recognition Act 2004 protects trans people from discrimination, the Equality Act 2010 defines a woman as an adult female, not a man who wishes to identify as a woman, as the Scottish Government repeatedly insisted.<\/p>\n
The decision resulted hundreds of people marching on the streets of Edinburgh at the weekend in protest<\/a> of the ruling.<\/p>\nDespite their success, Marion, Susan and Trina say their work is \u201cnowhere near done\u201d, and will continue after they\u2019ve had a \u201cgigantic party\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh woman behind a ‘landmark’ legal challenge on biological sex has been told she “deserves” to die…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[21723,748,1102,4884,21722,712,15985,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-37962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-biological-sex","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-marion-calder","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-supreme-court","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114375257347554484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37962","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=37962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}