Unions and bosses are flouting trans ruling
Who counts as a woman when it comes to female-only spaces, services and sports? The Supreme Court settled once and for all this most fraught question of our time when it clarified last month that, under equalities law, woman means female. That nobody male can identify into these areas. And that's the end of it. Trans people have the same robust protections against discrimination as other protected groups but don't have a claim to those reserved for people of the opposite sex.
The judgment should help the many organisations which have got themselves into a legal mess by caving in to activist demands to operate self-ID policies. It means hospitals can no longer tell female patients they are transphobic if they object to a male
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