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The ruling put an end to a years-long legal dispute surrounding the legal definition of “women” and “women-only” spaces
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The United Kingdom’s highest Court’s ruling put an end to a long discussion that began in 2018 when the Scottish Parliament introduced the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act.
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The legislation was intended to improve gender balance by requiring that half of non-executive board members on public bodies be women.
Controversially, the act defined “woman” to include transgender women who possess a Gender Recognition Certificate.
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Feminist advocacy group For Women Scotland (FWS) challenged the law, arguing that the definition conflicted with the UK’s Equality Act 2010, which protects against discrimination on the basis of characteristics like s*x, reassignment, and orientation.
FWS contended that the Scottish government had exceeded its authority by expanding the legal definition of “woman.”
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After years of litigation, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer specifically to biological women and biological s*x.
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