SleepyCattenApr 17, 2025

Yesterday, after years of a sustained onslaught by heavily-funded anti-trans and anti-rights lobbying groups, the UK Supreme Court caved to their disformation and hate through an unust ruling that will negative impact many living within the UK 😞

If you are unaware of what happened, are unclear on the details, or perhaps have yet to read anything from a non-anti-trans source, the below explainers may help:

Although the ruling was specifically against trans+ women, it will have far-reaching implications not just for all trans+ and non-binary folks, but for all intersex individuals and gender-non-conforming cis people, such as masculine-presenting or -sounding cis women.

The floodgates are now wide open to further discrimination against anyone who isn't a cishet person who conforms to arbitrary gendered expectations, as well as the further erosion of human rights within the UK  

If you are a trans+ person living in the UK, please, please be kind to yourself. Step away from doomscrolling and prioritise self-care if you can, please 🥺

If you are in contact with anyone in the UK who will be impacted in any way (directly or indirectly) by yesterday's ruling, please, please reach out to them to offer genuine support, kindness, and love  

If you wish to use YouTube, please use an extension like YTBlock to block any anti-trans channels or content. There's a similar extension called uBlacklist, which allows you to block websites in search engine results. Both extensions are compatible with multiple major browsers.

And for anyone who needs someone to tell them what to do right now, your current mission is to survive, even if it's solely out of spite and defiance against tyranny.

Your continued existence is resistance ✊         

Boosts always welcome  

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UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010

The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

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Didn‘t the Supreme not also rule that the law also applies to trans-persons despite not being defined as women?
Apr 17, 2025 at 3:45pmWeb
Show threadSleepyCattenApr 18, 2025

@vampirdaddy For our own wellbeing, we limited our reading of the initial ruling and left it to the legal experts, so we honestly can't answer that.

What we can say is that even those who have an expertise in UK law are still unpacking the ruling and the implications.

Example:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lui-asquith-b31650169_fws-v-the-scottish-ministers-i-have-now-activity-7318652836974583809-Fhga

Edit: On a further reading of your post, we're not actually quite sure what you mean anyway, but we hope that you find the answer by reading the above and other analyses like:

FWS v The Scottish Ministers I have now read the judgment and in the… | Lui Asquith | 10 comments

FWS v The Scottish Ministers I have now read the judgment and in the process of drafting a full article on it. The judgment has undoubtedly induced a new confidence to discriminate against transgender people (specifically, trans women) by say, excluding them from single sex spaces. However, that confidence must stop short of the assumption that automatic, blanket exclusion is now - by default - lawful. I don’t think that is the effect of the judgment, though there clearly will be an effect – we need to ensure that is legally sound, and not political. Service providers etc. should seek careful advice as to what the decision means in practice – it is not as clear cut as headlines suggest. In short, the judgment decides there is no relevant distinction, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, between a trans person with a GRC and a trans person without a GRC when considering the meaning of the word “sex”, “woman” and “man” for the purpose of the anti-discrimination provisions of the EA10. In my view, the protections which have always been available to a trans person without a GRC remain and the position has been confirmed to be the same for someone with a GRC. How does this impact the equality rights of trans people in day-to-day life? As a start, I do not agree with the idea that the effect of the judgment is that single sex spaces has been clarified to only for ‘biological women’ and cannot ever be used by trans women – I cannot see how that can be correct given the contents of the judgment and the EA10. What has been clarified is the definition of the protected characteristic of “sex” - what is means in practice will be fact dependent and various rules will still apply depending on the relevant provision. Many decisions to exclude will still need to be justified. The above does not in any way debase the real human impact this case has had – I know first-hand the social anxiety and fear the response to this decision has brought to the community. The judgment does not change who you are. Fuller opinion in due course. | 10 comments on LinkedIn