Responding to the Supreme Court ruling that The Equality Act refers to biological, not ‘legal’ sex, Lara Brown – Policy Exchange Senior Research Fellow, Culture and Identity – comments:
“By confirming that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means “biological sex”, the Supreme Court has secured women’s sex-based rights – rights to which they have always been entitled as a matter of law. While this is a welcome victory, it should never have been left to the courts to answer the question of “what is a woman?. Had the Government used their statutory powers to clarify that sex in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex, when Policy Exchange called for them to do in 2023, the Scottish Ministers would never have been able to issue unlawful advice on the subject.”
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The Supreme Court have confirmed that sex in the Equality Act is biological. It cannot be altered by a Gender Recognition Certificate.
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Read Lara’s piece for The Spectator here.