UK supreme court’s biological sex ruling disappoints trans activists, lets off politicians

The UK’s supreme court decision that trans women are not defined as women under equality law is likely to have widespread ramifications for the regulation of how public space is shared in Britain’s hospitals, schools, armed services, sports, changing rooms and toilets.

The biggest sigh of relief at the ruling, however, may come not from campaigners, but from British prime minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government. It feared the UK’s supreme court would kick the issue back to Westminster for politicians to decide, plunging MPs into a potentially nasty debate at a time when the government’s limited bandwidth is stretched by geopolitical matters.

Instead, the five-judge co...
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