UK U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Do Not Meet Legal Definition of Women Under Equality Act - The UK Supreme Court says YWNBAW! (although the trans identity is still a protected characteristic)

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The New York Times. Published: 16 April 2025

U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Do Not Meet Legal Definition of Women Under Equality Act​

Britain’s Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether trans women can be defined as female under a British law that aims to protect against discrimination.

The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of women under the country’s equality legislation.

The deputy president of the court, Lord Hodge, said in a summary of the decision: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex.”

However, he added: “We counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not.” He said the ruling “does not cause disadvantage to trans people” because they have protections under anti-discrimination and equality laws.

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.

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.

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BBC live reporting; https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t



Also, sex is binary:

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Related:
JK Rowling, the Queen of TERF Island who helped fund this lawsuit, is celebrating.

And the troons are melting down even more than usual over her. See:
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/u-k-to...women-under-equality-act.217313/post-21120381
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/u-k-to...women-under-equality-act.217313/post-21129887
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/u-k-to...women-under-equality-act.217313/post-21135630

 

[Slur Generator]

Unironically, why does any of this matter? Who is going to get hurt if trans women (especially HSTS ones) are legally considered female? This doesn't harm anybody. You are retarded for cheering J. K. Rowling on, she is literally your average ultra-leftist if you don't consider her views on trans people. She would push for this forum getting banned if trannies didn't exist.

Yeah, why does it matter that you have hulking perverts in women's bathrooms, women's shelters, female sports, female prisons?

I dont like JKR or feminists but you're a tranny fellating faggot.

 

[Big Tiddy Goth GF]

W for British Women
L for still being British

In all seriousness though, this makes my cold dead heart have an inkling of hope. Just need to drop the Muslims now.

 

[goat sneed]

There are tweets shown earlier in this thread calling for JKRs home to be torched and fantasising about throttling her to death (so very feminine, threatening to kill women who say no to you!)
If any one of us posted on Xitter the same thing but for kier starmer, or any UK protected figure, there’d be six bobbbies at the door before the tea was done brewing . There is a disgusting double standard here where troons have Teflon protection over actual real threats and speech that anyone else would be prosecuted for. Everyone’s sick to the back teeth of the lot of them

I remember death and rape threats being brought up a lot by the Anti-GG crowd. 10 years later and a lot of the same wokies are condoning death and rape threats because the target is politically unfavorable.

Funny how that works.

 

[Lope de Aguirre]

Relieved that logic won out at some point about this farce, and I really hope this is the end of this shit for a good while at such a major level.

I saw this snippet and had to post it as I found it hilarious. Truly we are one step away from the tranny holocaust!

 

[LOLurtranz]

Trannies on suicide watch. Jk, they already were on it.

 

[SuStallone]

Unironically, why does any of this matter? Who is going to get hurt if trans women (especially HSTS ones) are legally considered female? This doesn't harm anybody. You are retarded for cheering J. K. Rowling on, she is literally your average ultra-leftist if you don't consider her views on trans people. She would push for this forum getting banned if trannies didn't exist.

Just say you enjoy shemale porn bro.

Also:

https://transcrimeuk.com/

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Even those clowns the British are disgusted with it.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

I recent lost a deeply personal, long-lasting, and important relationship in my life because of trannies, and if course the start of her final social justice battle where she valiantly slayed the TERF (me) was stated because she brought up Rowling. This news and that tweet probably sent her into a conniption fit.

 

[krautkid]

Beautiful day for TERF Island.

Today I woke up feeling amazing and enshrined in law. Now get these fucks out of our sports and out of women's only leagues.

 

[Otterly]

Unironically, why does any of this matter? Who is going to get hurt if trans women (especially HSTS ones) are legally considered female? This doesn't harm anybody. You are retarded for cheering J. K. Rowling on, she is literally your average ultra-leftist if you don't consider her views on trans people. She would push for this forum getting banned if trannies didn't exist.

It matters a lot. It harms a lot of people.
-it creates compelled speech. You can be prosecuted for speaking the truth. Humans cannot change sex.
-it creates a legally protected sexual fetish that you must participate in. I do not want to participate in a man’s sexual fetish and to make me do so used to be called sexual abuse
- women and girls do not want men in our toilets or changing rooms. Trannies are predominantly sex pests and violent and this puts women and girls at risk
-trannies prey on children and groom them.
Enough. I don’t care if you’re a camp gay male who wants to get railed by chasers. Dress how you like, screw any consenting adult who will have you, I do not care. But as soon as you create a situation where my daughters can’t be sure of having safe toilets or changing rooms, you’re a threat to them. If you create a legal environment where I can be prosecuted and ruined for speaking the truth, you’re a threat to me.
Society in the UK is done with the lot of you. You pushed it too far and now comes the pushback. Zero sympathy, and nobody is falling for the ‘but how does it affect you personally’ manipulation. Back in the closet with the lot of them. All the way back until you’re stood in the snow

 

[CharlesBarkley]

I want the world to make a ruling stating no trannies are allowed on Reddit.

I know that’s impossible, but it would be the funniest thing ever:

 

[Pepito The Cat]

So... what will happen to all those people fined and incarcerated for hate speech against the trans community? Is the UK high court also facing hate speech charges?

 

[Ugandan discussions]

Am I reading it wrong or it only excludes pooners from female spaces (if they are too butch) but not from male spaces?

There are three sets of protections in the Equality Act 2010 which apply to Pooners specifically on account of their being female:
Sex
Gender reassignment
Pregnancy

So they cannot be excluded from facilities for female people, because they share that protected characteristic.

Because of how the EA2010 works, MTF troons can still be protected under the sex provisions, because it applies to how they are perceived. As others have highlighted I think, a camp but hetero man is still protected under the provisions related to sexual orientation if he is discriminated against because he is perceived to pack fudge.

 

[Overdrive MASK_de_SMITH]

Breaking: Random Internet dweller Pretendasaur is fuming at this news
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"Trans Women are women!" - Fat faggot named "Pretendasaur"

On topic, though, I'm glad the UK is finally taking steps to end this gender lunacy. They can seethe all they want, but it doesn't change that the UK is enforcing what is obviously a biological reality. It's not about the identity of stupid trannies. It's about protecting women's rights. Real women shouldn't have to take the fall just so fake women can benefit. The online rage is nothing short of amazing, guys.

 

[GlupShitto]

Relieved that logic won out at some point about this farce, and I really hope this is the end of this shit for a good while at such a major level.

I saw this snippet and had to post it as I found it hilarious. Truly we are one step away from the tranny holocaust!

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God I wish. I would give up my first born child if it meant I could kill every last tranny with my bare hands.

 

[Muad'Dick]

trans women

Not anymore they're not.

 

[Seethan Ralph]

I misread that as U.S. Supreme Court. Anyway, good news, and an extremely rare Anglo W

 

[gamerweeb1]

As much as this is a W, let's not forget that JK didn't this because she's a Based Trad™ but because she really, really hates men

Yeah… I find it hilarious when Trump supporters in the US act like Rowling is on their side.

Rowling has basically admitted that she hates trannies because she got raped by a man decades ago, and now she sees ALL men (including trannies) as potential rapists.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Leftist brit women are more likely to be anti-tranny, but they're generally still pro-immigrant, which is a bit of a problem when you consider there's a lot more illegals than trannies and they're just as rapey, if not more so.

I suspect I'm wildly optimistic, but there's always the chance that, having allowed themselves one moment of wrongthink, they may be more open to experimenting with more. As you say, immigrants are far more rapey, and the current wave of anger over immigrant gangs raping young girls seems as if it hasn't yet peaked. It's fertile ground for radfems to adopt an anti-migrant stance in a way that doesn't conflict with their core beliefs.

 

[whitesavior]

Beautiful day for TERF Island.

Today I woke up feeling amazing and enshrined in law. Now get these fucks out of our sports and out of women's only leagues.

I'm eagerly awaiting the FA's reaction (or inaction). Some of the public bodies for sports will keep trying to force males in female sport, so I hope they're ready to settle before court proceedings given no competent legal advisors should tell them to fight it now. The judgement was so thorough it's closed many (all?) previous avenues for legal discrimination claims by men in lippy.