Watch moment judges rule on legal definition of a woman in landmark decision

Moment judge rules on definition of a woman in landmark decision

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00:00The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010

00:08refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

00:13But we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society

00:19at the expense of another.

00:22It is not.

00:24As I shall explain later in this hand-down speech,

00:27the Equality Act 2010 gives transgender people protection

00:32not only against discrimination through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment,

00:40but also against direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment.