Supreme Court in the UK: The Law on Equality defines a woman as someone born biological females

London – The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Law on Equalization in Great Britain defines a woman as someone was born biological females.

Justice Patrick Hodge said that five judges in court unanimously, “the” conditions “of the woman” and “sex” in the Law on Equality refer to the biological woman. “

The decision means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as a female should not be considered a woman in equality.

The case arises from the law for 2018. year that passed the Scottish Parliament that indicates that there should be 50% of women’s representation on the Board of the Scottish Public Body. This law included transgender women in their definition of women.

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London (AP) –

The Supreme Court in the UK is ready to rule on Wednesday in the legal challenge that focuses on the definition of a woman in a long-lasting dispute between the group of women and the Scottish government.

Five judges in the Britain’s highest court plan to rule whether a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes as a woman, can be considered women under the laws of equality.

While the centers of the case in the Scottish Law, a group that brings the challenge, for women Scotland (FWS), that its outcomes could have consequences in the UK for sexual rights as well as everyday one-free services such as toilets and hospital departments.

The case arises from the law for 2018. year that passed the Scottish Parliament that indicates that there should be 50% of women’s representation on the Board of the Scottish Public Body. This law included transgender women in their definition of women.

The female rights group successfully challenged that law, claiming that his redefinition of “Women” crossed the parliament.

Scottish officials then issued guidelines by stating that the definition of “Women” included a transgender woman with a gender recognition certificate.

FWS tried to overturn it.

“Neining definition of sex in its ordinary meaning means that public committees could imagine 50% of men, and 50% of men with certificates, but still legally meet the representative office,” said the director of the Trina Budge group.

The challenge was rejected by the Court 2022. years, but the group received permission last year to take its case to the Supreme Court.

Aidan O’Neill, lawyer for FWS, told the judges of the Supreme Court – three men and two women – in order to relate to biological sex within the Law on Equality and as they understand in ordinary, daily languages. “

“Our position is your sex, whether you are a man or a woman or a girl or a boy from the conceptions, even in front of something,” he said on Tuesday. “It’s an expression of one’s physical reality. It is an immutable biological state. “

A group for women’s rights is counted among its supporters by Author JK Rowling, which allegedly donated tens of thousands of pounds. The “Harry Potter” writer was Vocals in quarrels That the rights for trans women should not come to the harm to those who were born biologically female.

Opponents, including Amnesty International, said that excluding transgender people from sexual discriminatory protection of human rights conflicts.

Amnesty submitted a submission in court, saying that he was worried about the deterioration of the right to the Trans People in Great Britain and abroad.

“The policy of a blanket for the ban on women from single-pole services is not proportional to the funds to achieve a legitimate goal,” a group of human rights.