UK The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that A Woman He is born biologically.
The result is not excluded Transgender Come after a long legal quarrel between people with legal definition, and between Scotland for women (FWS) and the Scottish government.
The decision was based on the legal challenge of 2022 brought by the FWS against the 2018 Scottish Act of the “Woman” term, in which people who have safe features of the gender assignment, people living as a woman, and those who are proposed to pass through, are proposed. Saying UK's Supreme Court website says.
The Scottish civil courts termed this definition illegal because it dealt with cases that come out of the Scottish Parliament's legislative jurisdiction. It was updated in 2023.
However, the FWS went to eliminate the new definition because it states that a person with a gender identification certificate (GRC), acknowledging that his gender is a woman, is considered a woman.
The FWS appealed to the British Supreme Court after being controversial in the Scottish courts.
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On Wednesday, five judges decided that the UK's equation act means that trans can be excluded from some groups and single sex locations, including rooms, homeless shelters, swimming areas, and medical or consulting services, which means only for women.
However, the court reiterated that the decision did not remove the people from their rights, and that they were still legally protected from discrimination in the UK, yet the ruler states that some reservations are specific to biological women but not transgender women.
The court said the unanimous decision should not be viewed as a one -sided victory, but according to the Associate Press, several groups of women who supported a major success in their efforts to protect the vacancies designated for women were called a major victory.
“Everyone knows what sex is and you can't change it,” said Susan Smith, co -director of Women Scotland.
He added, “This intellect, the basic intellect, and the fact that we are below the hole of a rabbit, where people have tried to deny science and deny the truth, and hope that it will now look at us.”
The decision has brought some explanation in the UK's global debate.
In the United States, in the past four years, Republican states have been banning gender verification for minors, preventing transgender women and girls from sports competitions that are in line with their gender, and bans which public bathroom transgender people can use.
Women Scotland (FWS) campaigns outside the Supreme Court in London, where they are challenging the Scottish government to see if Trans women can be considered as women under the 2010 Equality Act.
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In Canada, under, under Canada's Human Rights ActTransgender people are legally protected from gender identification and expression -based discrimination.
Bill C 16 was approved in 2017 and in Canada, gender identity and expression were added to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination.
– with the files of the Associated Press
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