Victory for Women

The UK Supreme Court's Historic Ruling on 'What is a Woman?'

It is hard to overestimate the importance of today’s UK unanimous Supreme Court ruling that “the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to a BIOLOGICAL WOMAN and BIOLOGICAL SEX.”

It is a victory not just for women but also for common sense in a civil society. This verdict is far more than a matter of semantics. It relies on science and biology and affects everything from the accuracy of statistics and research on women’s health to protecting single-sex facilities, including hospital wards, public bathrooms, prisons, and women’s sports. Or, as author and activist J.K. Rowling put it on X, the ruling protects “female prisoners locked up with male rapists, ill women requiring intimate care, girls forced to share changing rooms with males, sportswomen cheated out of their life's goal, [and] lesbians under attack for being same sex attracted.”

“It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them,” wrote Rowling, “to get this case heard by the Supreme C…