Will the Supreme Court protect Women's Rights?

silverlining48

I didn’t know about this so read the link and hope the Scottish Supreme Court will do the right thing and protect women’s rights.

They have!

Sex is binary. Years long battle in Scotland. Good.
Mind you they’ll probably pursue in the English Courts now!

This is wonderful news for all women, especially those referred to as extremists by a previous poster! 😂 I'm hoping that nurses Sandie Peggie and Jennifer Melle are feeling buoyant and optimistic about their forthcoming tribunal hearings and that NHS Fife and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals are running around like a headless chicken wondering how to extricate themselves from the mire it dug themselves into on behalf of men.

karmalady

and for all women in the uk. We have to thank the women and men who worked so hard to get in law that woman can only be biological woman. It is a huge step forward and now written in law

It was always written in law karmalady the Supreme Court has just clarified that it always meant biological sex. Going forward a lot of cowardly businesses are going to have to be braver about enforcing their so-called single sex spaces, or admit they only operate mixed sex spaces.

My adult daughters will be ecstatic, both athletes and sometimes having to compete with stronger males who self identify as women. They will now be safer in safe changing rooms too as will our schoolgirls

PoliticsNerd

OldFrill

This link explains why the case has reached the UK Supreme court and the implications of any judgement

It's far more than safe spaces for women
sexmatters.org/posts/updates/will-the-supreme-court-protect-womens-rights/

My tablet is denying access to that site. I think that may well tell me all I want to know about the article.

The Supreme Court judge who read out the judgement mentioned the sex matters organisation, so I'm afraid your tablet may be being a tyrannical bigot.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/its-a-win/

and for all women in the uk. We have to thank the women and men who worked so hard to get in law that woman can only be biological woman. It is a huge step forward and now written in law

What a relief especially for all women in Scotland .

Common sense has not deserted us! 👏👏👏

How far would this have contined to go without this judgement?

Thanks Goodness! A win for common sense, but above all for women and specifically Scottish women who have had to put up with all of this nonsense for too long. Who'd have thought, not going back that far, such a ruling would be necessary.

I absolutely do care. But I don't read every single thread every single day.
Well done, Scottish women.

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My predictions are always wrong thank goodness

Well done Women for Scotland

Women for Scotland won against the Scottish Government.

Well done Supreme Court!

"Supreme Court rules the term sex refers to 'biological women'
The definition of a woman and sex in the Equality Act relates to “a biological woman and biological sex”, the supreme court has ruled as it unanimofusly allowed an appeal from gender critical campaign group For Women Scotland.

Yes found it on Sky news.

BBC report the term ‘sex’ refers to biological women

And welcome to Gransnet

OK Maya Forstater is saying biology wins, I trust her information but can't see the result anywhere yet. Anyone?

Or, as I did, sought out those in charge only to be told they knew a man was masturbating habitually in a cubicle in the women’s toilets but they could do nothing about it because she identified as a woman and was doing it in private, in her own cubicle.

Or when I said I didn’t want to try on a dress in front of two teenage lads, in the women’s changing room for the morning it seemed, was told I not to use the changing room and to take the dress home to try on instead.

Of course, these instances aren’t “proven” because they weren’t accepted as worthy of attention or action.

And it's not just single sex spaces that have been discussed here on GN for sometime OldFrill. My point was that the poster who suggested that there were only two people concerned about this issue, had not taken part in the current discussion about single sex spaces which of course is about women's rights.

PoliticsNerd

There is an obsession with toilets on GN. Is it because we sre all getting to a "difficult" stage of life?

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You obviously have never been faced with a jock in a frock, demonstrating quite clearly that he is male and claiming loudly that he has a right to be in the female toilets at a motorway services.

Or you think it’s OK for men like Eddie Izzard to dress up in a skirt and put on make up and get himself filmed going into female toilets because he’s having a girly day.

Or have found yourself in a toilet with some jerk with a phone camera in the next door cubicle.

You are evidently old and certainly you might be at a difficult stage of life, but safe spaces for females is not an obsession with toilets, except maybe for the TIM and their supporters who object to females having safe spaces.

Stepgranonabroomstick, every woman I know of all ages have closely followed this subject for years. I can assure you we are not only interested but have contributed to the cause.

Old frill is right, it is very important. As I have said elsewhere I am worried about this ruling, but we will see.