The British court will issue a breakthrough sentence. There is a dispute about the “definition of a woman”
The legal dispute began with the adoption by the Scottish government in 2018 of the Act, the purpose of which was to ensure gender balance in the management board of the public sector institution. This was to increase the number of women in higher positions.
Activists from the organization for women Scotland (for Women Scotland) have opposed the fact that in certain amounts also included transgender persons with sex arrangements. They appealed so that only “unchanging biological state” was considered to be sex. – Our position is that sex – a man or a woman, a girl or a boy – she is determined from the moment of conception in the womb, before birth, through his body. (…) Gender is an unchanging biological state – said a lawyer representing the organization Aidan O'Neill in an interview with Sky News.
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Act on Equality in Great Britain. The verdict will be crucial
The judgment announced on Wednesday will be of key importance for the application of the rights based on the Equality Act, in force throughout the UK since 2010. This legal act provides protection against discrimination due to various features, including sex and sex transit.
The court will decide whether a person with a female gender recognition document should be treated as a woman under the Equality Act. In the ruling, as provided by the BBC station, it will also be thoroughly determined, among others How institutions and services intended only for one sex are to function.
The case does not apply to people self -identifying their sex, but only those who have a gender agreement certificate. The Human Rights Sex Organization estimates their number at approx. 8 thousand. throughout the UK. According to the Act on equality, persons identifying as an opposite sex or as non -uninnerous persons remain legally attributed to their biological sex.
