{"id":283252,"date":"2025-04-16T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/u-k-top-court-says-trans-women-do-not-meet-legal-definition-of-women-under-equality-act\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:33:23","slug":"u-k-top-court-says-trans-women-do-not-meet-legal-definition-of-women-under-equality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/u-k-top-court-says-trans-women-do-not-meet-legal-definition-of-women-under-equality-act\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Do Not Meet Legal Definition of Women Under Equality Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/16\/multimedia\/16int-uk-gender-mvlg\/16int-uk-gender-mvlg-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Do Not Meet Legal Definition of Women Under Equality Act\" title=\"U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Do Not Meet Legal Definition of Women Under Equality Act\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>fall within the legal definition of women under the country\u2019s equality legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The deputy president of the court, Lord Hodge, said in a summary of the decision: \u201cThe unanimous decision of this court is that the terms \u2018woman\u2019 and \u2018sex\u2019 in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, he added: \u201cWe counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not.\u201d He said the ruling \u201cdoes not cause disadvantage to trans people\u201d because they have protections under anti-discrimination and equality laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The landmark judgment follows a yearslong legal battle over whether trans women can be regarded as female under the 2010 law, which aims to prevent discrimination on the basis of gender, sexuality, race and other protected characteristics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The decision was highly anticipated because it could have potentially far-reaching consequences for how the law is applied to single sex spaces, equal pay claims and maternity policies as well as to some of the rights available to transgender people in Britain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/16\/world\/europe\/uk-supreme-court-woman-definition-trans.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of women under the country\u2019s equality legislation. The deputy president of the court, Lord Hodge, said in a summary of the decision: \u201cThe unanimous decision of this court is that the terms \u2018woman\u2019 and \u2018sex\u2019 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/16\/multimedia\/16int-uk-gender-mvlg\/16int-uk-gender-mvlg-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3010,1625,155970,729,40821,26870,84420,137130,2846,2485,2378,63681,1846,32618,503,3653,163419],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283254,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283252\/revisions\/283254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}