Legal definition of ‘woman’ refers to biological sex

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The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Delivering the unanimous judgment, Lord Hodge said the key question was whether the term includes trans women with a Gender Recognition Certificate. The court found it does not, affirming “woman” refers to biological woman. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The central question on this appeal is the meaning of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010.

00:10Do those terms refer to biological women or biological sex?

00:16Or is a woman to be interpreted as extending to a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate?

00:23By that I mean a person born male who now possesses a gender recognition certificate amending her gender to female and sex to be interpreted as including what I will refer to as certificated sex.

00:40The 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.

00:53But we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another.

01:03It is not.

01:04What is it?

01:07What is it?

01:08That is.

01:09What is it?

01:12What is it?

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