The U.K. just posted an exceedingly rare W today and I am sure J.K. Rowling is going to be taking a much deserved victory lap.
That's right, if you're a man, the Brits won't let you be a lady.
Britain's top court ruled only those born female can be considered women, a landmark judgment that excludes transgender women from the legal definition and paves the way for tighter limits on female-only spaces and services ...
'The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms ‘woman' and ‘sex' in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex,' said the court's deputy president, Lord Hodge.
A total TERF victory!
It took 15 years to decide if a law about women was really about women or if it applied to just anyone who fancied himself a woman at any given moment.
The move marks a defeat for the Scottish government in its long-running battle with a women's campaign group over the definition and legal protections for women and female-only spaces.
The Scottish government had argued that transgender people with a gender recognition certificate are entitled to certain protections and to access women-only areas. Its defeat could lead to greater restrictions on the rights of transgender women to use spaces and services reserved for women.
William Wallace has to be rolling over in his grave to see Scotland waging a yearslong battle to allow dudes into ladies' restrooms.
In the 88-page ruling, the judges said the concept of sex was binary, referring to either a woman or a man, and that they hoped the ruling would give clarity to the law while protecting both women and transgender people.
Here's the TL;DR of the 88-page ruling:
Here are some actual quotes from the ruling as well.
'The ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or a woman,' the ruling read.
'These are assumed to be self-explanatory and to require no further explanation.'
While it's tragic that this even needs to be a rule, it's good to see that even the dystopian tyrants across the pond can still muster up a modicum of common sense.
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