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Susan smith (left) and Marion Calder, co-directors of For Women Scotland, with campaigners celebrate outside the Supreme Court in London, April 16, 2025
THE term “woman” in the Equality Act refers to biological sex and those with a gender recognition certificate can be refused entry to same-sex spaces if proportionate, according to Britain’s highest court.
The landmark 88-page Supreme Court judgment was prompted by the then SNP-Green Scottish government’s 2022 Gender Recognition Act, passed with the stated intention of relaxing the process to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC), the key to changing legally assigned gender.
That was struck down by the British government, which argued it would impact the operation of the 2010 Equality Act.
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
Professor MARY DAVIS argues that feminism has been hollowed out by liberal co-option – and only a revival of socialist, class-based politics can restore International Working Women’s Day’s original, radical purpose
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate