Is the Supreme Court gender ruling a 'win for women'? | LBC

The Supreme Court has ruled that 'woman' refers to biological sex under equality laws.

"Woman" and "sex" refer to a biological woman and biological sex in the Equality Act 2010, Lord Hodge has said.

The Supreme Court ruling follows a series of challenges brought by For Women Scotland (FWS), a women's rights campaign group, over the definition of "woman" in Scottish legislation mandating 50% female representation on public boards.

The dispute centres on whether or not somebody with a gender recognition certificate recognising their gender as female should be treated as a woman under the 2010 Equality Act.

The day of the ruling, MP Rosie Duffield joins Tom Swarbrick to discuss the news.

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[stephfoxwell]

Huge sigh of relief by the 98% of us who are still sane.

[marcellocautait]

It’s a miracle, common sense in modern Britain has prevailed 🫢No one has hamstringed trans rights, the court has simply stood up to bullying tactics and laid down the law on what is frankly, science and safety for women combined.

[HedwigHenselHöss]

I'm glad the courts did the right thing for woman.

[mandyharewood]

This young lady explained it perfectly. They were misinterpreting the law!

[nicolalloyd]

This was about eroding women’s boundaries, it was man’s right movement for men to do whatever they liked.

[lalaboards]

I was so confused for years , but now I finally know what a woman is .Thanks supreme court .

[ZoeHills-ehpq]

Oh, it’s making a mockery of their certificate!
How about mentioning how this has made a mockery of women and their rights for years!

[AnthonyTaylor-gflq]

Love Rosie ! Has fought like a lion to get this through, thank you Rosie for protecting my mother's my wife and my daughters ❤

[frankez]

Transwomen are men, always were and always will be.

[marcturner]

It’s a victory for all woman and common sense.

[B-TownGolf]

It’s so bizarre that it’s been a conversation.

A woman is a woman and a trans woman is a trans woman.

I’m not sure why it’s a problem to have this separation…

[keyboarddancers]

How bizarre that there was a necessity to 'win' something for which there was no fundamental requirement to 'compete'.

[cugcqzp]

Tom, can you please go explain this to James, he still doesn't get it and its doing my head in listening to him fumble round cluelessly every time this comes up.

[peterhawker]

Rosie speaks more sense in a couple of minutes than the labour party ever had regarding this issue, they really did their proverbial in a twist. Well said Rosie. Katie Lam for the tories ran rings around Jess Phillips in the commons last week. Eloquent and precise she made Phillips look and sound idiotic.

[karlharrison]

Starmer and Labour owe Rosie an appology.

[davidwell]

It's a ruling for mankind and common sense.

[basilherbert]

It’s completely ludicrous a court has to define the blindingly obvious?

[stuc]

The question is what do you do when 0.2% of the populations rights clash with the other 99.8% right?

[samisakin]

Common sense is coming back to Europe.🎉🎉🎉🎉

[anniebananie]

Yes a win for women!!!! Don’t be ridiculous men and trans men are definitely NOT women. What is wrong with people today