Kemi Badenoch celebrates UK Supreme Court ruling, says days of women having penises over
By Ishaya Ibrahim
Leader of the UK Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch has expressed gratitude to the UK Supreme Court for clarifying that trans women are not legally women.
Trans women are men who identify as women and enjoy rights and privileges accorded to women.
In a celebratory post on X, Badenoch said: “Saying “trans women are women” was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law, either. A victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious. Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex. The era of Keir Starmer telling us that some women have penises has come to an end. Hallelujah! Well done @ForWomenScot.”
In a landmark ruling on April 15, judges at the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a woman was defined by biological sex not ideology under the UK’s equalities law.
The judgment marked the culmination of a long-running legal battle which could have major implications on how sex-based rights apply across Scotland, England and Wales and followed a case brought against the Scottish government by a campaign group, For Women Scotland.
The group argued for a “common sense” interpretation of the words man and woman, telling the court that sex is an “immutable biological state”.
The group had maintained that sex-based protections should only apply to people that are born female.
However, the Scottish government argued in court that transgender people with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) are entitled to the same sex-based protections as biological women, adding that obtaining a GRC amounts to a change of sex “for all purposes”.
The Supreme Court was asked to decide on the proper interpretation of the 2010 Equality Act, which applies across Britain, whether the word “sex” means biological sex, or legal, “certificated” sex as defined by the 2004 Gender Recognition Act.
Delivering the judgment, Lord Hodge said the central question was how the words woman and sex are defined in the legislation.
He told the court: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
“But we counsel against reading this judgement as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not,” and stressed that the law still gives protection against discrimination to transgender people.”
