Green Party calls for ‘rushed’ single-sex guidance to be withdrawn after Supreme Court ruling

Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer (Image: Wikimedia Commons/Bristol Green Party/http://www.joncraig.co.uk)

The Green Party of England and Wales has called for “rushed” single-sex guidance to be withdrawn after the Supreme Court’s ruling that the term ‘woman’ in UK law refers only to ‘biological women’.

Greens co-leader Carla Denyer made the call on BBC One politics show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday (Sunday 27 April 2025).

The ruling, announced by Lord Patrick Hodge earlier this month, states that “the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”

“Ill-considered and impractical” – Carla Denyer

Denyer called the resulting interim guidance affecting women’s and LGBTQ spaces from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) “ill-considered and impractical”.

Trans people are now prevented by law from

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