UK Transgender Activists Protest Supreme Court’s Ruling on Woman Definition (PHOTOS)

Transgender activists and their supporters protested the recent Supreme Court ruling that excludes transgender individuals from the Equality Act 2010.

Following the UK Supreme Court’s decision that biological sex defines “woman” under the Equality Act, thousands of transgender individuals and activists demonstrated in London.

The ruling effectively excludes transgender people, even those with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), from the protections of the 2010 anti-discrimination law.

On Saturday, protesters congregated in Parliament Square, holding signs with slogans like “Trans women are women” and denouncing the court’s decision as “transphobic.”

Police reported that seven statues were vandalized, including the monument to Millicent Fawcett, a feminist writer and advocate for women’s suffrage.

HAPPENING NOW: A HUGE crowd of protesters chant “Trans Rights Now!” in Parliament Square in London in the wake of the recent UK Supreme Court ruling against trans people 👇🏻

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stated, “Criminal damage like this, including to statues of men and women who fought for freedom and justice like Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Millicent Fawcett, is disgraceful — it is right [that] the police are investigating.”

A representative for Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson said she “utterly condemns the appalling defacement” of the Fawcett statue.

London trans rights protest no arrests

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The UK Supreme Court determined on Wednesday that “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to “a biological woman and biological sex” rather than “certificated sex.” The BBC reported that the judges reasoned that defining sex as “certificated” instead of “biological” would “cut across the definitions of man and woman and thus the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way.”

For Women Scotland, the conservative group that brought the case to court, welcomed the ruling. Co-founder Susan Smith said, “Sex is real and women can now feel safe that services and spaces designated for women are for women.”

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