For Women Scotland group mulls more legal action after UK supreme court gender ruling

For Women Scotland co-director Susan Smith urged people to ‘keep pressure on MSPs and MPs’, and to make use of the fighting fund to launch their own actions. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

For Women Scotland, the group responsible for April’s landmark supreme court ruling on biological sex, is considering further legal action against the Scottish government as they warned the key motivation for bringing the case was being lost amid debates about policy on toilets.

At a fringe event at the Scottish Conservative conference in Edinburgh, the gender critical campaign group’s co-director Susan Smith said there had been “extraordinary pushback” since five judges ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates.