When Britain’s Supreme Court made its landmark ruling last month that only biological women are women, some people said it helped settle the long, contentious debate over the rights of transgender people and their access to single-sex spaces.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” as they appear in Britain’s Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex — the sex one was assigned at birth. “To reach any other conclusion,” the court wrote in an 88-page judgment, “would turn the foundational definition of sex on its head.”
After a period of public comment — expected to be full-throated — the commission is set to issue final guidance in June.
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[Susan Smith, co-director of For Women Scotland] said her group sued to protect women in “our most vulnerable spaces,” such as hospital wards, changing rooms and shelters for women who have suffered domestic violence.
