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I am writing to express my fear and displeasure with the Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of woman is based on "biological sex". I am a cisgender woman; that is, the sex on my birth certificate is female and I continue to identify as such. I am also a lesbian leaning bisexual and a survivor of sexual trauma. According to the ruling and to groups like Women Scotland, I am the sort of woman this ruling is meant to protect.
I do not feel protected. I only feel fear for my many friends, some of whom are trans women. In a country where recorded hate crimes against trans people hit record highs in 2023, fuelled by a constant stream of marginalising remarks in the media as well as the concerning comments by politicians like Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, this ruling will only be used to further that hate.
The claim that this ruling is meant to "clarify" the definition of a woman fails to recognise that "biological sex" is not a clear binary. The ruling uses the term to refer to sex as defined on the birth certificate; i.e. as judged based on genital appearance. In addition to not taking into account intersex people (who make up 1.7% of births), this simple definition dissolves into complexity when it meets the social reality of gender.
The lack of Trans voices in the Supreme Court case is deeply disturbing. I would like to direct your attention to this press release by a Trans Activist charity, as they have expressed those concerns well and can be contacted for further discussion.
https://transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/04/16/response-by-transactual-to-supreme-court-ruling-on-equality-act/
I have at times been questioned about whether I should be in the women's toilets. This is a scenario familiar to gender non-conforming women and as the idea of gender conformity gets tighter and tighter with every repetition of the anti-trans narrative the rise of misogyny becomes ever steeper. Under the Supreme Court's ruling, how are we supposed to prove our womanhood? Are we expected to carry our birth certificates with us to the bathroom and other "single sex" spaces?
When a trans woman gets cat-called, sexually harassed, talked over, passed over for job opportunities, dismissed by doctors, and all the other experiences women are sadly familiar with, the sexists do not ask to check her birth certificate first. However neat and "clear" a definition of womanhood the Supreme Court wants to declare, the reality of being a woman will remain nuanced, socially defined, and unambiguously includes my trans sisters.
I am tired of the narrative that this issue is about women's rights or lesbian's rights versus trans rights. I hope my perspective can provide some counterbalance to that narrative and I would like to know what you and your party intend to do about this travesty?
