Supreme Court docket newest: Judges rule on definition of a lady – as campaigners have a good time | UK Information

Some response now from For Girls Scotland, the marketing campaign group that introduced the case in opposition to the Scottish authorities – which made its means from courts in Edinburgh to the best civil court docket within the UK, the Supreme Court docket.  

The group’s director Trina Budge has simply spoken to our Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies, describing the end result in court docket minutes in the past as a “victory”.

Whereas the decide cautioned in opposition to seeing the ruling as a win, Budge stated: “This case was at all times about ladies’s rights… by no means about trans rights.”

“It is completely a victory for ladies’s rights,” she stated.

Transgender individuals, she added, are “absolutely protected in legislation” – because the decide stated.

“It means there’s absolute readability in legislation relating to all ladies… and that after we see a women-only house, it means precisely that,” she added.

“Simply ladies. No males. Not even when they’ve a gender recognition certificates.”

That is not a view shared by Scottish Greens activist Ellie Gomersall, who’s a trans girl.

As we reported at 10.26, she stated it “ends 20 years of understanding” that transgender individuals with a gender recognition certificates are “capable of be, for nearly all intents and functions, recognised legally as our true genders”.