The UK Supreme Court has ruled in favor of reality on Wednesday when they announced that trans women are not legally women. This is a huge win for women's rights campaigners in the UK who have been attacked, vilified, canceled, and suffered other harms for their refusal to back down from biological truth. The court ruled that "sex is binary."

Lord Hodge, handing down the ruling, said that the judgement was unanimous that the 2010 Equality Act used the terms "woman" and "sex" to be about biological sex and not gender identity. The fight was between For Women Scotland and the Scottish Government, which has imposed all manner of changes to law to allow for the recognition of men who say they are women as women under the law. The question before the court was "the meaning of the words which Parliament has used in the EA 2010 in legislating to protect women and members of the trans community against discrimination. Our task is to see if those words can bear a coherent and predictable meaning within the EA 2010 consistently with the Gender Recognition Act 2004"

The ruling reads: "The definition of sex in the EA 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man. Persons who share that protected characteristic for the purposes of the group-based rights and protections are persons of the same sex and provisions that refer to protection for women necessarily exclude men. Although the word “biological” does not appear in this definition, the ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or a woman. These are assumed to be self-explanatory and to require no further explanation. Men and women are on the face of the definition only differentiated as a grouping by the biology they share with their group.""
Women's rights campaigners, who have been advocating against the inclusion of men in women's sports, the allowance of men in women's sex-segregated facilities, have opposed gender self-ID having a bearing in law, and have fought to stop the sex changes of minors, celebrated the ruling on Wednesday.

"The unanimous decision of this court is that the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex," Hodge said. However, he went on to caution, saying "But we counsel against reading this judgement as a triumph of one or more gorups in our society at the expense of another. It is not."

That did not stop women from celebrating their win. Author JK Rowling, who has been outspoken in her support for women, said "It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court and, in winning, they've protected the rights of women and girls across the UK. For Women Scotland, I'm so proud to know you."

Kellie-Jay Keen, who has been physically attacked for advocating for the rights of women to claim their own definition as adult, human females, said "Step one: a woman is an adult human female." Keen also said that the ruling may spark a change in gender recognition laws in the UK, which allow a man to say he is a woman and gain the legal status thereof. 

Helen Joyce of Sex Matters spoke outside the court, saying "It really did seem hopeless on occasion. We were right. These women, these ordinary women, saying that sex is material in the Equality Act. They were right and the regulator was wrong, the Government was wrong, Keir Starmer was wrong. Now, when we go to police and say searching shouldn’t be on the basis of what certificates people hold, when we say to companies ‘your gender self ID access to toilets is unlawful,’ they should listen to us. Because we’ve just been agreed with comprehensively by the highest court in the land."

Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch heeded the caution from the court, saying "Women are women. We didn't need a court to tell us that. But here we are. It took a Supreme Court decision to confirm what we all know: that a piece of paper cannot make a man a woman. For too long the price has been paid by individual women taking action to uphold the law, at great personal cost."

The Scottish Government, which has fought against the recognition of women as women, said "The Scottish Government accepts today's Supreme Court judgement. The ruling gives clarity between two relevant pieces of legislation passed at Westminster. We will not engage on the implications of the ruling. Protecting the rights of all will underpin our actions." 
 

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