The directors of For Women Scotland make a statement outside the Supreme Court of Great Britain in London on Wednesday, after the Court’s decision on how to define a “woman.” | Photo credit: AFP
On April 16, the United Kingdom Supreme Court unanimously ruled that only biological women and not trans women comply with the definition of a woman under the laws of equality. The central question in For Women Scotland Ltd. (appellant) vs the Scottish Ministers (defendants) “If the 2010 Equality Law deals with a transmission with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) as a woman for all purposes within the scope of its provisions, or when that law speaks of a” woman “and biological sex.”
The failure
In an 88-page trial, the five judges, three men (Lord Reed, President Lord Hodge, vice president of President Lord Lloyd-Jones) and two women (Lady Rose, Lady Simler), helped they wanted to add the “meaning of the words” to what words are applied to what words “to what words” what are you what you are. What “to what” is what “is in 2010. members of the trans community against discrimination.” He said that among the people to whom the EA 2010 recognizes that it has protected characteristics are women, whose characteristic “protected” is sex, and the “transsexual” people, whose “protected” characteristic is the gender reallocation. After listening to both the appellant and the survey, and the experts and activists of the biological woman of Great Britain and her “statute of statute” of the biological woman of biology.
Trans rights
Trans and activists care that the ruling is a setback for trans inclusion. Jane Fae, director of the Transactual Campaign Group, said The guardianThat the ruling had eliminated protections for trans people to the “minimum, reducing legal protections only to cases that involve harassment, discrimination or equal wages.” Kishwer Falkner, president of the Commission on Equality and Human Rights (EHRC), joined the fear of the Trans community, saying that the trial of the Court only meant “biological women could wear single -sex locker rooms and women’s bathrooms, or participate in sporting events and solo teams alone of women, or women’s teams in hospitals.” In spaces only for women? – You need to be resolved. The judges advised not to read the sentence as a triumph for one or more groups in society at the expense of another: “It is not,” Judge Hodge said to the media. The judges consider that the 2004 gender recognition law continues to provide the legal recognition of the rights of transgender persons, which has practical effects for individual rights and freedoms “(including, for example, in the context of the brand, pensions, pensions, pensions, pensions,” “” “” “” “” “”, however, the needs of the needs of the needs of the needs of the needs of the needs of the needs of the needs of the needs of the 2010 EA “.
Gender laws
The movement to change the transgender laws has decreased in Scotland after the departure of the leader of the National Party of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. Suddenly he resigned in 2023, but not before receiving many criticisms for his plans to change gender laws so that with gender recognition certificates he could go to the same protections as biological women. The Scottish government said that he accepted the trial and protection of the rights of all groups would underpin future movements. For Scotland women, who appealed against the placés’ plans, he said he was claimed because he had argued that only biological women should be entitled to rights for women.
The UN Human Rights Commission uses the term ‘transgender’ as a general term to describe people whose sense of their own gender is different from their sex at birth. Human rights abuses against transgender people include violence, discrimination (the hijra community in India is ghetta and struggle to obtain medical attention, education or housing), lack of legal recognition of their identity and harassment. Trans people are often qualified as sick, “pathologized”, but being different, says that the UN is not treated as a disorder. The UN stressed that pathologization is one of the main causes of human rights violations faced by trans people.
In countries around the world, there has been a growing decimation of rights for people who do not fit in the barrosa of men and women. In Hungary, for example, a broader offensive in the LGBTQIA+ community impacted transgender people with the government declaring that they are two sexes, men and women, and that legal norms are in the “biological reality.” President Donald Trump of the United States signed an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes from participating in sports of girls and women, a very discussed and divisive theme.
The ruling will have an impact on sport where athletics, cycling and aquatic have already banned transgender women to participate in female events. Reuters reported that the English Soccer Association has introduced stricter rules, but still allows transgender women in the female game as long as their testosterone was maintained below a certain level. These rules are likely to change after the decision.
In the United States, Trump has also signed orders saying that the government recognizes only two sexes: men and women. Experts say that “gender is a spectrum, not a binary structure.” India approved the Transgender Persons Law (protection of rights) in 2019, which defines a traffic as some whose gender does not coincide with that assigned to birth. Prohibit discrimination against them in employment, education, housing, medical care and other services. But the community was horrified in some of the clauses, including a mandate that each one would have to be recognized as “transgender” at the base of an identity certificate issued by a district magistrate. This ignored a recommendation from the 2016 Permanent Committee to have a detection committee. If the district magistrate refused to deliver said certificate, there was no room for an appeal or repair. The demand for trans people has always been that any legal framework must take into account community suggestions.
Published – April 19, 2025 05:00 am ist
