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Apr 20, 2025

In what is likely the biggest development in the battle for women’s rights against men who say they are women, the Supreme Court has ruled that women are adult human females. Thanks to the remarkable courage and hard work of For Women Scotland, working with Sex Matters and the LGB Alliance among many others, the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) is essentially redundant. It is now confirmed that a person’s sex in law is fixed, cannot be changed, and should not be confused with the legal fiction created by the GRA. The Supreme Court ruling asserted that ‘the meaning of the terms “sex”, “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act (EA) 2010 is biological and not ‘certificated’ sex. Any other interpretation would render the EA 2010 incoherent and impracticable to operate.’

This has dominated the news and led to newspaper headlines that we probably could not have imagined just three years ago.

Any female single-sex space must now exclude men and boys pretending to be the opposite sex, or face legal consequences. This was a momentous day for women and scenes of joy on the day of the ruling were a beautiful sight.
The media’s reaction

This was, predictably, to go into overdrive - both before and after the ruling - to promote the voices of the sorrowful transvestites and their allies on the subject. Sky News, for instance, gave a platform to the American TRA troll, Dylan Mulvaney, who is in the UK promoting his role in a West End musical. Dylan’s immense contribution was to say ‘me’ a lot and to claim that ‘gender is a beautiful thing’. BBC News was quick to ask how the ruling would affect the very vulnerable ‘transgender community’, but an hour later presenter Martine Croxall’s one-to-one encounter with ‘Heather’ Herbert may have peaked her.

In fact, it was the BBC that probably gave the best example of the media’s response. BBC Scotland News spoke to a couple of women who were pleased with the ruling, but their comments were buried in an article that instead was almost entirely about how upset cross-dressing men are about it. The focus of this story was the views of one 77-year-old Pride founder who said he is legally a woman and it would be “utterly ridiculous” for him not to use women’s toilets. Other people in them “don’t know whether I have got a gender recognition certificate or not,” he added. Even though the ruling means he is not legally a woman, and having a gender recognition certificate is irrelevant, the BBC still led with this misinformation. The BBC added into the article a vague disclaimer stating that what he was saying was incorrect. Later, this was amended to make it slightly clearer that he didn’t actually understand the ruling.

Channel 4 News wheeled out various cross-dressing men for their views. Charlie Craggs said he was looking forward to “lesbians getting hurt”. Samantha Kane was brought on to say what a woman is. He is a man who left his wife and children to become a ‘heterosexual woman’, but then decided to ‘detransition’ because ‘shopping was boring and female conversations dull’, so he became a ‘man’ again’. Thenhe went back to being a ‘woman’. He once said that “trans women have more claim to womanhood than biological women”. During the interview, he admitted that he hasn’t been honest with people he’s had sex with, which wasn’t challenged. However, Maya Forstater was interviewed at the same time, and her claim that “men who identify as trans women are a vulnerable group of men” was cut off and met with the response “I know many people would disagree with what you’ve just said,” by Cathy Newman.

The news broke at the start of James O’Brien’s LBC show, and he spent the next two hours angrily implying women celebrating the ruling were all Nazi-adjacent Trump supporters. He even credited Trump directly with For Women Scotland’s success. The majority of callers to his show were teary transvestites to whom O’Brien gave the utmost respect and didn’t silence or cut off as he routinely does with women. He even said that research shows that brain scans confirm that some men have lady brains.

The Guardian picked a trans activist to provide legal analysis of the ruling but as one KC pointed out, his article was riddled with ‘legal inaccuracies’. For instance, in one bizarre paragraph, Sam Fowles wrote that ‘there are now multiple legal classes of ‘woman’: Cis women, trans women with a GRC, trans women without a GRC.’ As Akua Reindorf KC states: ‘This is quite simply the opposite of the true position’.

The more sane media was better, but only relatively. The Daily Mail preempted the BBC and reported on what drag queens felt about the ruling (answer: sad), while GB News interviewed Peter Tatchell twice on judgement day. He claimed women, like Bev Jackson, who he refused to appear alongside, were making ‘a bit of a mountain out of a molehill’.

Probably the funniest tran-trum was on Talk TV, when ‘non-binary’ broadcaster Shivani Dave appeared in the studio. She read out a long and nonsensical word salad of a statement in which she said things like: “Women are beyond description and categorisation. Women are funny, knowledgeable, powerful, strong. Trans women are kind.” Julia Hartley-Brewer responded by asking her to clarify what that meant. Dave replied that the question made her feel unsafe and she might have a panic attack. She then stormed out of the studio.

Few mainstream media outlets thought to ask about women or how the ruling might affect the outcome of the Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife case and Dr Upton tribunal, in which a male doctor claimed to be a biological female with an automatic right to use women’s single-sex facilities. It’s thought NHS Fife may now have to concede the tribunal in light of the ruling, the implications of which simply cannot be overstated.

Aside from the media, several Labour, Green Party and Lib Dem MPs responded to the ruling by publicly expressing their support for transvestite men on social media, and typically refused to allow comments. The UK’s Special Envoy for Women and Girls, Harriet Harman, didn’t seem to understand the ruling, or what a single sex space is, saying from now on ‘single sex spaces for women can exclude trans women but only where necessary’. The Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, who last year advised men to use women’s toilets, announced that ‘we have always supported the protection of single sex spaces based on biological sex’. Stella Creasy responded by ordering gender critical women to ‘clarify that they respect the existence of trans people’.