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

 

[lamppost]

Certain left wing states try to, usually ones with the same viewpoints and ideals as the UK Government does on most things.

"Try"

 

[Eekum Bokum]

You mean the telegram the UK intercepted and doctored to make look worse than it actually was?

You are our ancient and eternal enemy. I will see the day your dogshit “nation” the size of Oregon crumbles and burns to the ground.
One small victory doesn’t absolve you of anything. Your dystopian hellscape of a homeland still jails people for wrongthink.

Why the fuck would we doctor a telegram when we were winning the war. Germany was on the brink of surrender when that Telegram went out. Don't you know anything about WWI?

 

[CyrusHowler]

Why the fuck would we doctor a telegram when we were winning the war. Germany was on the brink of surrender when that Telegram went out. Don't you know anything about WWI?

Holy shit you are DELUSIONAL you retarded Britbong.
Germany was absolutely dominating your shit and was about to smash through the French line and march on Paris.
Russia was knocked out of the war and all those German troops were headed back to fight on the Western Front.

To say you were winning the war is to deny the truth that Fresh US Doughboys and Marines prevented Germany’s breakthrough and thus won the war for the Entente. Unkindly shut the fuck up you Limey subhuman.

 

[StacticShock]

Rare bong W.
this W is supposed to help with what optics though? because declaring that trannies will never be women won't stop the brown wave in UK and i remember the many shitposts about the quran saying that it's preferable to have a tranny with a axewound than a faggot.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Holy shit you are DELUSIONAL you retarded Britbong.
Germany was absolutely dominating your shit and was about to smash through the French line and march on Paris.
Russia was knocked out of the war and all those German troops were headed back to fight on the Western Front.

To say you were winning the war is to deny the truth that Fresh US Doughboys and Marines prevented Germany’s breakthrough and thus won the war for the Entente. Unkindly shut the fuck up you Limey subhuman.

Withdrawing to the Hindenburg line is a strange way of dominating us, "oh shit guys we are winning so much that we have to fall back." Get over yourself yank, focus on your own shithole nation and let us focus on ours.

 

[Law]

Arguing about WW2? Like this is some kind of HOI4 Discord? You sure you fellas aren't trans?

Who is going to get hurt if trans women (especially HSTS ones) are legally considered female?

Gay men are men.

She's just like Andrew Tate!

She has hair.
Absolute bars from Brendan O'Neill.

https://archive.ph/yjPPb

It’s been a 24-hour temper tantrum, the hissy fit heard round the world. And I’m loving it. For while this noisy orgy of self-pity might doll itself up as a cry for civil rights, in truth it’s the death rattle of trans activism’s neo-misogyny. They know the jig is up, or very nearly up.

 

[Érvénytelen]

Finally some good news from the Island of Faggotry. YWNBAW.

 

[Marvin]

Arguing about WW2? Like this is some kind of HOI4 Discord? You sure you fellas aren't trans?

It's even gayer: they're arguing about WWI.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Arguing about WW2? Like this is some kind of HOI4 Discord? You sure you fellas aren't trans?

Sometimes I wonder myself.

 

[parody]

I'm sure Wikipedia will adjust their standards accordingly now that it's been officially ruled, right?

 

[JuanLee]

Yeah. If there’s a uniform and they want to wear the women’s one that’s one thing, I guess that falls under sex discrimination, so wear the polyester pencil skirt, I don’t care. . But there’s too many of them turning up dressed like hookers. That Philip Bunce dude who works at credit suisse who does half the week as ‘Phillipa ‘ and wears fishnets to the office. That kind of thing.
The behaviour it enabled was to compel people to participate in the man’s sexual fetish under threat of punishment, and to engage in compelled speech.

That Philip Bunce dude got laid off at Credit Suisse, presumably in the fallout from when they collapsed and UBS bought them out. He's now doing some executive coaching DEI shit

https://humilityhub.com/

Weirdly almost all of the picture of him on the website are him dressed as a woman, it's almost as if he's finally gone full mask off.

 

[Chappell's Lost Earring]

I know people in real life who say trans women are women. The mental disconnect there still amazes me. Even if you are more troon tolerant, how can you deny basic biology? I'm gonna start saying I'm Lady Gaga. If you tell me otherwise, you're a bigot. You must refer to me as Lady Gaga. Yeah, that's totally not a mental illness. Not to mention the social aspect of troons being raised as men their entire lives, just to suddenly say "oop, I'm a woman now teehee. Let me into your bathrooms, changing rooms, women's shelters, and athletic sports".

This is a huge win, and I hope other countries follow in their footsteps. I still have a fear I'm going to walk into a hulking hon in the locker room at my new gym every time I go. It happened once, and that fear has stayed with me since then.

Trannies will still exist, but at least women can begin to have their own spaces again without troons barging in to play pretend and peep on real women, stealing their athletic medals, and using up the resources in their shelters and organizations.

Would've been better if it was some icy juice and weed instead of alkie and tobaccie.
Just because you "made it" doesn't mean it's a good idea to twist yourself on the inside, especially if it's just to own some brainfucked eunuchs.
Yes, it bothers me that some random woman is poisoning herself. I don't know why I give a fuck, I'd rather not.

Weed isn't legal there is it? The way she celebrated gives me pick me vibes. Such manly things to do. Smoke a cigar and sip liquor. It's an amusing statement to make, but to me it looks like she is only appealing to the men with this. A glass of wine and a cigarette would have been just as nice in my opinion, but I don't know the lady. Maybe she does genuinely enjoy cigars and liquor. Expensive scotch is actually really good, so I guess I won't critique her too much. She probably buys the most expensive shit out there. I bet it is tasty.

 

[Fruttasecca]

This actually sucks because it changes nothing and closes a loophole for insane DEI policies.
The ability to change your sex on the fly for administrative purposes is the best piece of legislation that has been pushed over the last few years.

 

[Otterly]

Weed isn't legal there is it?

It’s not no. It’s a Cuban cigar.
She’s an adopted Scot, so whiskey is appropriate.

 

[Chappell's Lost Earring]

It’s not no. It’s a Cuban cigar.
She’s an adopted Scot, so whiskey is appropriate.

I knew it wasn't weed in the picture, but I was asking because the person I quoted suggested she should have been smoking weed instead of a cigar. It doesn't make sense for her to be lighting up some weed if it isn't legal in her country. I guess she can do whatever the fuck she wants, but it doesn't make the same statement as a cigar, which is legal and usually smoked in celebration of a big event.

 

[King Kiwi]

So uhhh... Was she lying when she said Hermione was based off of herself?

Because that character was certainly some kind of activist or something for magical creatures and non-magic blood people like herself.

Now Just Kidding Rowling is sucking on some of her million dollar grinded up cigars like the hypocrite she is?

I guess I respect that she's not backtracking on her comments like a lot of celebrities do but damn, for writing a book series where minorities and people should have more equal lights or whatever the hell Hermione's subplot was, she sure aligns herself with the Slytherins these days.

Or she was young and idealistic... And broke.

Makes rereading Harry Potter a different experience.

 

[Berrakh]

jkr coming across as super based in that photo

JK doing a Tate-style cringe alpha flex and still being clearly a woman must really offend them.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

. Smoke a cigar and sip liquor. It's an amusing statement to make, but to me it looks like she is only appealing to the men with this.

She wasn't trying to appeal to men, she was telling a group of men that they can go fuck themselves.

 

[Sithis]

JK doing a Tate-style cringe alpha flex and still being clearly a woman must really offend them.

She still has a lot of retarded opinions but I think she's earned the right to be a bit cringe by doing more to singlehandedly help TTD in the UK than anyone else. If trannies had any understanding of the creatures they so poorly imitate they would understand that "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" quote is based in truth, no human is more vindictive and stubbornly petty than a pissed off woman with money and resources.

 

[Law]

Himdia Willyby is a man and will always remain so. He will never be a woman.

I hope India's balls get caught in his zipper.

Smoke a cigar and sip liquor. It's an amusing statement to make, but to me it looks like she is only appealing to the men with this. A glass of wine and a cigarette would have been just as nice in my opinion

Whiskey and cigars are for men, cigarettes and wine are for women is, ironically, troon logic.