https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/16/supreme-court-rule-trans-women/
UK Supreme Court: Trans women not women in definition ruling
16 April 2025
Transgender women are not legally women, the Supreme Court has declared in a landmark ruling.
Handing down the judgment, Lord Hodge said it was the court’s unanimous view that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, not acquired gender.
Gender-critical campaigners hailed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for common sense, claiming gender “self-ID is dead”.
It followed a years-long legal battle between campaign group For Women Scotland and the Scottish Government over the definition of a woman.
Lord Hodge told the court: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
“But we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.”
In its 88-page ruling, the court added that the “concept of sex is binary” under the Equality Act 2010.