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Evening Standard
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Anahita Hossein-Pour

Questions over validity of Supreme Court gender ruling ‘unacceptable’ – Mahmood

Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Justice Secretary has said it is “absolutely unacceptable” to question the validity of the Supreme Court ruling that the term “woman” is defined by biological sex.

Giving evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Shabana Mahmood said that justices at the UK’s highest court had “done their job”.

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