LIVE: Supreme Court announces major ruling on definition of a ‘woman’

The Supreme Court is to deliver its landmark judgment on exactly what a woman is defined as. READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic... The case centres on a relatively obscure piece of legislation passed by the Scottish government in 2018 to establish gender quotas for public boards, aimed at increasing the number of women sitting on them. Five justices, led by Lord Reed of Allermuir, are now tasked with making a crucial decision on whether a “woman” is defined in law as a biological woman or whether the definition of sex may be broadened to encompass trans people who possess a gender recognition certificate (GRC) that changes their legal sex. n broad terms if the court accepts the definition of a woman can be broadened to include transgender women — born biologically male — who have a full GRC that changes their legal sex to female, the implication is that society’s fundamental understanding of sex will also be changed. Another campaign group involved in the case, Sex Matters, said that this outcome would not mean that trans women with GRCs would be able demand access to women’s single-sex services as there was still other legislation protecting these areas pertaining to the Equality Act, safeguarding, duty of care and the protection of human rights. But it predicted that it would make it legally complicated to operate “truly single-sex facilities”. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on Twitter:   / thetimes   Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes   #supremecourt #woman #socialaffairs #politics