Members of the gender-critical campaign group For Women Scotland, which is financially backed by JK Rowling, celebrated as the UK supreme court ruled that 'woman' and '*' in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological *.
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Trans rights groups have expressed concerns about the repercussions of the ruling, which they say echoes Donald Trump's anti-trans stance in the US
Legal definition of woman is based on biological *, UK supreme court rules ► https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/critics-of-trans-rights-win-uk-supreme-court-case-over-definition-of-woman
‘A huge reset’: trans rights campaigners and gender critical activists react to supreme court ruling ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/a-huge-reset-trans-rights-campaigners-and-gender-critical-activists-react-to-supreme-court-ruling
What does the UK supreme court’s ruling on definition of ‘women’ mean? ► https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/uk-supreme-court-legal-definition-woman
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