Supreme Court says 'woman' refers to biological sex under equality laws

Lord Hodge said it was the unanimous decision of the court that “the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.

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He added: “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.

“As I will explain later in this handout speech, the Equality Act 2010 gives transgender people protection not only against discrimination through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, but also against direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment in their acquired gender.”

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