Tag: Supreme Court
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One Year Later: How Can Governments Continue to Break the Law on Women’s Rights?
On Saturday 11 April 2026, women and men gathered in multiple cities for the #OneYearLater International Day of Action. Under the banner “ONE YEAR LATER — WE’RE BACK. OBEY THE LAW NOW! TICK TOCK”, they asked a simple question: “How can our government just continue to break the law?” Exactly one year after the UK…
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199 Days Later March — Women Demand Action on Supreme Court Ruling
On 1 November 2025, Women’s-rights activists marched through central London calling for the UK Government to immediately apply the Supreme Court’s landmark decision affirming that “woman,” “man,” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex at birth. A poster by the organisers, @acts_grassroots, stated: “The Supreme Court ruling should be implemented in…
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How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation. One day last December, a clutch of dark-suited lawyers descended the steps of the Supreme Court to a hero’s welcome. The lawyers, from the American Civil Liberties Union, had that morning joined counterparts from the Biden administration in asking the court to…
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The For Women Scotland Supreme Court Victory: A Landmark for Sex-Based Rights in the UK
In a unanimous decision on 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 that the terms “sex”, “man”, and “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex, meaning sex as recorded at birth. The Court held that these terms are not…