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

 

[BigUUUU]

Did trannies think they can keep up their spiel when the UK is becoming a muslim majority?

They were always retards for this. How could anyone with an IQ above the double digits figure they could have limitless Muslim invasion and an LGBTQP society simultaneously? Only the most stupid or arrogant of social enginners could have imagined it’d work.

 

[Thumb Butler]

They're planning a march in central London, topless.

Kevin Gibes better be there

 

[Fapcop]

It is rather serendipitous that this shit aligned with the fact Idubbz and Anus just declared war on H3H3 as a lot of these "enjoy the fireworks but prepare for her to turn on you" advisories can pretty much be copypasted from one thread to the next due to the wide speculation that Ethan is gonna go scorched earth on his former friend and benefactee.

Wrong thread friend

 

[Made In Wales]

Update: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84054nqnyo

The ECHR is on to the NHS about this ruling.

 

[anionfarflung]

Unironically, why does any of this matter? Who is going to get hurt if trans women (especially HSTS ones) are legally considered female?

Fuck outta here.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Update: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84054nqnyo

The ECHR is on to the NHS about this ruling.

No that’s the EHRC, not the ECHR. I know I made the same mistake.

 

[Made In Wales]

No that’s the EHRC, not the ECHR. I know I made the same mistake.

Shit, my bad - what Blewberry said folks.

 

[WhiteBoySummer]

Trannies when victorious: "we're real women, just one of the gals, programmer socks, living my truth!"
Trannies when defeated: "kill all women who disagree with us, she should be strangled/ beaten to death/ choke on my fat dick."

Every single time. How girly!

 

[BigUUUU]

>So intersex people don't exist?
What is it with trannies and pointing at intersex people as some sort of "gotcha"/counterexample? Intersex people are incredibly rare and are dealt with on a case-to-case basis. You are not intersex, you are just a mentally ill man, and they don't have to cater to you.

Seriously. The intersex mutation is so rare is more like a hypothetical than anything.

 

[MavisBeaconTeachesSnipin]

"The terms women and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex, but we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph for one or more groups in our society at the expense of another - it is not," Patrick Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court.

I dont know what this means. this ended up in court because 'live and let live' stopped being possible years ago. it is a zero sum game for both sides. so it either is a victory or it isn't.

 

[elastic eye]

Rowling in the OP reminds me of how the actor who played Beth Dutton in Yellowstone looks:


Yes she is an alcoholic and complete cunt too. Perfect wife material, love her.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

He's getting negrates because it's an objectively retarded post.

Which part? The part that this will change nothing, because it won't, I know a woman is a woman and I don't need a law or some fags on the internet to tell me otherwise.
Or the bit where JK is a liberal nutcase with money and wants infinitiniggers flooding our shores?

I don’t know her personally, but I do know people who have had dealings with her and they don’t have a bad word to say. This is in a town where inappropriate manifestation of wealth is le big nono - the millionaire wears knackered out cords and drives an ancient Volvo and to show off money is very distasteful (one’s massive pile in the Grange must be discreetly tatty.)

This isn't to do with money.

I don’t care if she’s rich and disagrees with me in every other subject under the sun. She’s done more for women’s rights n this one issue than most people have and she’s stuck up for the working non -loaded women who could have been ruined for having these opinions.

Maybe. I can't say for sure what she has done, other than making tweets and being too rich/powerful to get cancelled for them.

Those women are the real heroes here, and we owe them one. But today, it’s a W. We need to take the wins we get and build on the them - this long slow march by the troons and their enablers didn’t happen overnight and pushing them back won’t either.

Here's what pisses me off. We shouldn't be praising these women or worshipping what the courts have done. It's as obvious as night and day that men are men and women are women.
What's worse, this isn't over, not by a long shot. The retardation has only just begun and, without sounding like a doomer, people are celebrating something that is fucking obvious.

There should be no clapping like mongs because it shouldn't take the courts to state the obvious, even worse, they specifically say that trans still have protection from discrimination, so trans are still recognised as a protected class, even though this law says trans people don't exist.
Which one is it? Are trans people mental and men are men and women are women, or do they exist, they can pick and choose whether they're men and/or women and have to be protected? Because the recent judgement says the latter.

For the doomer part, Jk Rowling has proven long before this trans shit, that she was pushing to flood the country with immigrants. Back then, she was just a stupid bitch with laughably retarded takes and was largely ignored. Now? She has power, clout, a following and people have given her all of that power by celebrating what she has done. What if she now says we need more immigrants? What do?

Disclaimer: She can be the nicest, kindest, gentlest woman in the world. She can help others, read to the sick and disabled and donate to charity. That's all very good and I hope she is as good as people say. However, that doesn't change the fact that her political views are bad for the country.

 

[libRT]

I wonder how long it will take to convict the judge under hate speech laws

 

[teriyakiburns]

Which part? The part that this will change nothing, because it won't, I know a woman is a woman and I don't need a law or some fags on the internet to tell me otherwise.

It was a question of law, not fact. People were using the equalities act's protections for women and applying them to troons, via improper connection with the gender recognition act, using the political argument that "trans woman = woman", and were claiming protection under that law whenever they were opposed. This was challenged by a group of affected women - who Rowling bankrolled - and was finally slapped down by the supreme court. It is a major political shift. It shuts off every avenue for troons to actually claim protection or identity as women and opens the gates for challenging the entire legal framework guarding them from criticism. It changes a great deal.

Besides, that's not what he said. He was using the tired pro-trans argument that trannies aren't actually hurting people and that they should be allowed to exist and call themselves women because there's no "harm". His entire position seems to be "rowling bad on this one issue therefore I oppose everything she does", which has him unironically siding with troons. This is, as I said, objectively retarded.

 

[frozen_runner]

Does this mean UKoids can "misgender" with impunity?

 

[BigUUUU]

Does this mean UKoids can "misgender" with impunity?

No, because troons are still a protected group and “misgendering” can and will still be interpreted as a form of harassment and hate speech prosecutable under the law. This likely only protects womens spaces and maybe doctors who have to inform patients that they cannot have certain drugs or procedures because they are not women.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It was a question of law, not fact. People were using the equalities act's protections for women and applying them to troons, via improper connection with the gender recognition act, using the political argument that "trans woman = woman", and were claiming protection under that law whenever they were opposed. This was challenged by a group of affected women - who Rowling bankrolled - and was finally slapped down by the supreme court. It is a major political shift. It shuts off every avenue for troons to actually claim protection or identity as women and opens the gates for challenging the entire legal framework guarding them from criticism. It changes a great deal.

Can't they use the same discrimination protection and hate speech laws to still be protected?
You're more optimistic than me. I can't see this changing my life in the slightest. Though it will be good if it stops the perverts in wigs going into girls changing rooms.

Besides, that's not what he said. He was using the tired pro-trans argument that trannies aren't actually hurting people and that they should be allowed to exist and call themselves women because there's no "harm". His entire position seems to be "rowling bad on this one issue therefore I oppose everything she does", which has him unironically siding with troons. This is, as I said, objectively retarded.

I didn't pick up on the tranny part, my reply was in regards to Rowling not being based, in the same way some arseholes think Tate is a hero to young men when he's just retardedly regurgitating ideas from Neil Strauss.

 

[MeltyTW]

They were always retards for this. How could anyone with an IQ above the double digits figure they could have limitless Muslim invasion and an LGBTQP society simultaneously? Only the most stupid or arrogant of social enginners could have imagined it’d work.

Spoiler: migrants

i actually dont know what anyone gets out of importing muslims come to think of it. im usually pretty big on it being the jews but then the jewish migrant boat "charity" founder is complaining that they all shocker like palestine and hate israel and the jews, governments unlike with mexicans dont even get short term patches in the labor force, the citizenry certainly doesnt benefit. surely europe cant be suffering solely because some retard pencil pusher thought "durrr population go down need population durrrr up durrr import sand niggers" and then just ignored all the ways that wasnt working and obviously wont continue the euro nations in any meaningful economic, cultural, or genetic or aesthetic sense.

only protects womens spaces and maybe doctors who have to inform patients that they cannot have certain drugs or procedures because they are not women.

Though it will be good if it stops the perverts in wigs going into girls changing rooms.

i wonder if it will even stop that, i forgot the whole "sex and gender are different" thing that the uk will most likely fallback on to preserve all the troon privileges that they find politically convenient i wonder what they consider convenient though

 

[whitesavior]

I still for the life of me dosent understand the twitter troons getting upset, you’re terminally online this is about sports, something you probably dont do.

They venture outside when it's to perv on actual women in female toilets and changing rooms. This judgement affects their access to those.

 

[potatoman]

Took long enough