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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

No obligation to exclude trans women under ‘misunderstood’ Supreme Court ruling, former top judge says

Former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption has warned that organisations are potentially misinterpreting the landmark ruling that defined women by biology earlier this week.

Lord Sumption told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme that, contrary to much of the commentary on the Supreme Court ruling, judges did not take a side and did not provide an obligation to create single sex spaces.

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