UK Supreme Court Rules That ‘Woman’ in Equality Act Means Woman


Published April 16, 2025

National Review Online

In a unanimous opinion today (in For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers), a five-justice panel of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that the Equality Act 2010’s term “woman” and “sex” refer to “a biological woman and biological sex.”

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Edward Whelan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and holds EPPC’s Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies. He is the longest-serving President in EPPC’s history, having held that position from March 2004 through January 2021.

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