Another nail in the coffin of the woke: UK Supreme Court rules that trans women are not women
London, 16 April 2025 – In a landmark ruling poised to leave an enduring imprint on British jurisprudence, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has unanimously decreed that the terms “woman” and “sex”, as defined in the 2010 Equality Act, pertain solely to biological sex. The decision, in response to an appeal by the feminist advocacy group For Women Scotland, reasserts a fundamental legal principle: while individuals identifying as transgender are protected under anti-discrimination law, they are not legally women.
A return to reality
The Court’s judgment marks a decisive return to legal clarity and objective truth. Lord Patrick Hodge, Deputy President of the Court, stated unequivocally that interpreting sex as “certified” rather than biological would distort the coherence of the Equality Act and introduce confusion into the protected characteristics it outlines. While affirming that transgender individuals are indeed shielded from discrimination via separate provisions, the Court made clear that this does not extend to redefining the term woman in law.
The end of a collective delusion
For over a decade, woke ideology has sought to supplant biological fact with self-declared identity, eroding the boundaries of language, law, and science. The Court’s ruling is a long-overdue affirmation of empirical reality. As Susan Smith of For Women Scotland put it: “Everyone knows what sex is, and you can’t change it. It’s basic common sense. We’ve been living in a rabbit hole where people have tried to deny science and reality. Hopefully, this brings us back.”
Jubilant scenes outside the Court
Outside the Supreme Court, activists from For Women Scotland gathered in celebration. In a moment rich in symbolism, Susan Smith and Marion Calder, the group’s co-directors, raised a toast to the verdict — a modest yet resonant gesture marking the end of a long legal battle. They were joined by scores of supporters beneath the statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett. Author J.K. Rowling, a prominent defender of sex-based rights, also expressed satisfaction at the judgment, hailing it as a victory for real women and for truth.
Implications beyond Britain
The ramifications of this decision are likely to reverberate far beyond the United Kingdom. As Western legal systems increasingly struggle with ideological pressures to redefine sex and gender, Britain has reasserted the primacy of biological reality in legislation. This ruling sets a precedent: that clarity, not dogma, must underpin law. It also invites lawmakers across Europe to revisit policies that have sacrificed factual consistency on the altar of fashionable orthodoxy.
Another nail in the coffin of the woke
The Supreme Court’s decision does more than resolve a legal ambiguity; it symbolically closes a chapter on a cultural experiment that sought to unmoor law from nature. It is a sober reassertion of the Freudian principle of reality over fantasy, an intellectual call to abandon performative progressivism in favour of reasoned, evidence-based policy.
Five Justices, men and women alike, resisted the pressure to bend. With them, countless women across the nation can now say with quiet confidence: we have been heard.
Another nail in the coffin of the woke: UK Supreme Court rules that trans women are not women
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