Supreme Court rules that the word ‘woman’ in UK law refers to ‘biological women’

UK Supreme Court (Image: Wikipedia Commons)

This morning the UK Supreme Court has ruled that the term ‘woman’ in UK law refers only to ‘biological women’.

“The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex,” announced Lord Hodge.

“But we counsel against reading this judgement as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not,” he continued.

The ruling comes at the end of a long legal battle that began in 2018 when the women’s group For Women Scotland brought a case against the Scottish government for including trans women in its gender quotas for public sector boards.

The Scottish government argued that anyone

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