Talk about one of the most desperately needed Supreme Court rulings of a century.
… Just too bad it happened in another country.
That said, a favorable Supreme Court ruling in one country may well result in a favorable ruling in another country … and, with any luck, the ruling that just occurred in the United Kingdom will hopefully occur in the United States.
According to a report from The Guardian, the headline frankly says it all: “Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules.”
Absolutely outstanding, on many, many levels.
“The UK Supreme Court has issued a historic and definitive ruling that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex. In a decision that delighted gender-critical activists, five judges ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs),” The Guardian reported.
A unanimous ruling in favor of a woman being defined as she has been defined for multiple millennia … the sex, or gender, that she was born with. Period.
Fortunately, the remainder of the UK Government also appears in sync with the Supreme Court ruling, which is evidenced by remarks from one of its spokespeople.
“We have always supported the protection of single-sex spaces based on biological sex. Single-sex spaces are protected in law and will always be protected by this government,” a spokesperson proclaimed.
About darn time.
It’s really unfortunate that the case had to go all the way to the Supreme Court in the first place, but at least the Supreme Court – in the UK – has finally made it abundantly clear what a woman “plainly” is.
“The ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or a woman,” The Guardian detailed.
Naturally, the militant transgender campaign group – Scottish Trans – is not happy.
“We are really shocked by today’s supreme court decision, which reverses 20 years of understanding of how the law recognizes trans men and women with gender recognition certificates … We will continue working for a world in which trans people can get on with their lives with privacy, dignity and safety. That is something we all deserve,” the group fumed.
Right. How about women getting on their lives with “privacy, dignity, and safety?”
Including the right to privacy in public toilets.
Sacha Deshmukh, the chief executive of the human rights group Amnesty International UK, adopted a more measured viewpoint than Scottish Trans.
“There are potentially concerning consequences for trans people, but it is important to stress that the court has been clear that trans people are protected under the Equality Act against discrimination and harassment,” Deshmukh noted.
Well, whatever the “potentially concerning” consequences may be, the other consequences are much more “favorable” for women long sick of defending themselves, especially when accounting for longstanding historical injustices committed against women.
Indeed, JK Rowling, the famed author of the Harry Potter series, is delighted by the turn of events.
And despite being criticized by the actors who her work made famous in the first place – that would be the set of Harry Potter actors, apparently fully woke well into their 30s – Rowling had the last, very well-justified, laugh.
“It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the supreme court … I’m so proud to know you,” Rowling proclaimed.
Susan Smith, a co-founder of For Women Scotland, was even more detailed in her commentary.
“Today the judges have said what we always believed to be the case, that women are protected by their biological sex. Sex is real and women can now feel safe that services and spaces designated for women are for women and we are enormously grateful to the supreme court for this ruling,” Smith brayed.
Meanwhile, the latest addition to the Supreme Court in the United States cannot even define what a woman is … despite being a woman herself.
That said, one can only hope that the ruling in the UK serves as an overdue tipping point for the Supreme Court in the United States.
Author: Jane Jones
