It UK The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a woman He is someone who is born biologically female.
The result excludes transgender people of the legal definition and occurs after a long legal course between For women Scotland (FWS) and the Scottish government.
The ruling was based on a legal challenge of 2022 presented by the FWS against the definition of the Parliament of the Scottish Parliament 2018 of the term « woman », which included people with protected characteristics of gender reassignment, those who live as a woman and the people who proposed to submit The UK Supreme Court website says.
The Scottish civil court found that the definition was illegal, as it was issues that are outside the legislative jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament. Was updated by 2023.
However, FWS moved to annul the new definition, as he stated that a person with a gender recognition certificate (GRC), recognizing that his gender is feminine, is considered a woman.
After a outfit of contentious and forward in the Scottish court, FWS appealed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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On Wednesday, five judges ruled that the United Kingdom Equality Act meant that trans women can be excluded from some single -sex groups and spaces, including changing rooms, homeless shelters, swimming areas and medical services or advice only for women.
The court, however, reiterated that the ruling did not eliminate trans people from their rights and are still legally protected from discrimination in the United Kingdom, however, the ruling states that certain protections are reserved for biological women, but not transgender women.
The court said that the unanimous decision should not be seen as a victory on the one hand, but several groups of women who supported the call outside the court and achieved it as a major victory in their efforts to protect the spaces designated for women, according to Associated Press.
« Everyone knows what sex is and cannot be changed, » said Susan Smith, co -director of For Women Scotland.
« It is common sense, basic common sense and the fact that we have been a rabbit hole where people have tried to deny science and deny reality, and we hope that this will see us again in reality, » he continued.
The ruling provides some clarity to the United Kingdom to a world divisive discussion.
In the United States, Republican states over the last four years have been banning the attention of gender to minors, except for women and girls transgender of sports competitions that fit their gender and restricting which public baths can use transgender people.
For Women Scotland (FWS) campaigns outside the London Supreme Court, where Scottish government challenges whether trans women can be considered feminine under the 2010 Equality Act.
Pictures of Lucy North / Getty
To Canada, under the Canadian Law of Human RightsTransgender people are legally protected from identity -based discrimination and gender expression.
The C-16 bill was approved in 2017 and added gender identity and expression to the list of prohibited reasons for discrimination in Canada.
– With files from the associated press
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