UK's top court says legal definition of woman refers to biological sex

Terf island strikes again. What a despicable shower of bottom-feeders.

"The correct interpretation of the EA (Equality Act) as referring to biological sex does not cause disadvantage to trans people, whether or not they possess a gender recognition certificate," Hodge said. "Trans people have the rights which attach to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment."

Apart from the fact that the premise of this ruling is bogus and apart from the fact that it's needlessly othering it also leaves them the option of stripping trans women of their rights at any point without meddling with cis women's rights. At least I don't see another reason for keeping things separate.

I better get my travel documents in order :(

Sad to see the UK heading backwards like this.

Time to boycott the UK. Make it unacceptable to buy UK goods or services and still claim to be a trans ally.

Sure, very likely the people writing a legal text were not referring to legal definitions of a term or the legal status of things. They must have meant biology instead. /s

Can I now claim what I did was morally not that bad, and the law is likely not bothered with the legal definition of crime? I mean they could have meant ethics and maybe it's morally justified to role play as Robin Hood, or insult someone who had that coming? Or maybe it wasn't me, biology made me do it and that's now the deciding factor in court?

How is "no, no, they didn't mean the legal definition" something a judge would say?