UK Supreme Court Rules Transgenders Are NOT Women

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that males claiming to be transgender are not considered to be women under the nation’s laws.

In a unanimous landmark ruling, all five justices ruled that “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act refer to biological sex, not “gender identity.”

Following the decision, men who claim to be “transgender women” can no longer demand to be treated as female.

The judgment was handed down by Lord Patrick Hodge, the deputy president of the UK Supreme Court.

Hodge said it was the court’s unanimous view that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act refer to biological sex and nothing more.

He noted that men have no legal right to claim they are “women” or that they changed their sex, which is scientifically impossible.

Women’s rights campaigners hailed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for common sense, claiming gender “self-ID is dead”.

It follows a years-long legal battle over the definition of a woman.

The ruling brings an end to the dispute between campaign group For Women Scotland and the Scottish Government.

Lord Hodge told the court:

“The unanimous decision of this court is that the definitions of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

“But we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.”

In its 88-page ruling, the court added that the “concept of sex is binary” under the Equality Act 2010.

For Women Scotland cracked open a bottle of champagne outside the Supreme Court.

Supporters broke into song to celebrate the historic ruling.

Susan Smith, For Women Scotland’s co-director, said the group couldn’t predict which way the decision would go.

Smith noted the campaigners were “really worried” it might go the other way.

In a statement outside court, she said:

“Today, the judges have said what we always believed to be the case: women are protected by their biological sex – that sex is real.

“We are enormously grateful to the Supreme Court for this ruling.”

Speaking afterwards, she said:

“Dogs and toddlers know what sex is.

“It’s one of the most concrete things in nature.

“Sex can’t be changed, but the law had the capacity to make a mess of anything.

“We’re just really glad common sense prevailed.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling was also welcomed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

Baroness Kishwer Falkner, the EHRC’s chairman, said:

“Today, the Supreme Court ruled that a gender recognition certificate does not change a person’s legal sex for the purposes of the Equality Act.

“We are pleased that this judgment addresses several of the difficulties we highlighted in our submission to the court, including the challenges faced by those seeking to maintain single-sex spaces, and the rights of same-sex attracted persons to form associations.

“As we did not receive the judgment in advance, we will make a more detailed statement once we have had time to consider its implications in full.”

Reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling, the UK’s Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said, “You cannot change your biological sex.”

“Saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact, and now isn’t true in law either,” she added.

“This is a victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious.

“Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.

“The era of Keir Starmer telling us women can have penises has come to an end.

“Well done to For Women Scotland!”

“Harry Potter” author JK Rowling, a women’s rights advocate who lives in Scotland, was among those celebrating the ruling on Wednesday.

Rowling said the ruling would protect “the rights of women and girls across the UK.”

It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court and, in winning, they’ve protected the rights of women and girls across the UK. @ForWomenScot, I’m so proud to know you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://t.co/JEvcScVVGS

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 16, 2025

Rowling later added:

“Trans people have lost zero rights today, although I don’t doubt some (not all) will be furious that the Supreme Court upheld women’s sex-based rights.”

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