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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou and Bryony Gooch

UK Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women called ‘worrying’ by Stonewall: Live

LGBT+ rights groups have criticised today’s “incredibly worrying” Supreme Court ruling which states that the Equality Act’s definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

Judges unanimously decided that transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) should not be treated as a woman under the 2010 Equality Act.

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