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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Amelia Gentleman

How will UK judgment on legal definition of womanhood affect policy?

Women hold signs that say 'Fact is not Hate' and 'I will not call the man who raped me 'she' your honour' outside the supreme court
Demonstrators wait outside the UK supreme court before its ruling on the 2010 Equality Act was given on Wednesday. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

This week’s supreme court judgment will have significant implications across policy areas from sport, to prisons and the NHS. It will also impact how smaller organisations manage single-sex spaces and services.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has said it will publish a new statutory code of practice by the summer, so that it can offer advice to public bodies and organisations about how they may need to revise their policies.

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