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Eleanor Busby

‘Knee-jerk’ school policy changes after gender ruling should be opposed – union

Campaigners take part in a rally organised by trans rights groups (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Wire)

Any introduction of “knee-jerk policy changes” in schools in response to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman should be opposed, a teaching union has said.

In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, the UK’s highest court ruled the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.

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