Former Olympian and women’s rights activist Sharron Davies has hailed the Supreme Court for acknowledging “biological sex” after upholding their definition of a woman.
Addressing the court today, Lord Hodge upheld the definition declared under the Equality Act 2010 – and maintained that a woman is defined biologically, not by being transgender.
Lord Hodge told the court: “Our role is to ascertain the meaning of the legislation which parliament has enacted to that end. The central question on this appeal is the meaning of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010.
“Do those terms refer to biological women or biological sex? Or is a woman to be interpreted as extending to a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate?”
Sharron Davies has hailed ‘biological sex’ after the Supreme Court upheld the definition of a woman
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Lord Hodge ruled that a woman is a ‘biological woman’ under the Equality Act 2010
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Davies told GB News: “What I really want to do is to not discriminate against anybody. I don’t want anyone excluded from sport, I just want the biological reality of the body that you have to be reality. It’s ridiculous to turn around and say that this isn’t the case.
“If someone has gone through a full medical transition, that is extremely different from somebody who literally changes nothing – but people that change nothing can still get a gender recognition certificate. So it’s all very muddy and crazy, we just need to come up with better definitions, and a much clearer situation.”
Hitting out at the gender debate, Davies claimed she “cannot for the life of me ever understand” how, under law, courts can “remove the word sex to not mean the biological sex that you are”, stating there are “only two human sexes”.
Davies said: “Every scientist will tell you that a human cannot change their biological sex, no matter what surgery they have, no matter what hormones they take.
Davies told GB News that women’s rights would just ‘disappear’ if the ruling was not in favour of biological women
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“And if you think about it logically as well, the moment you stop taking those hormones, your body will revert back to whatever it actually is. So if a male is taking estrogen and they can’t get hold of estrogen, then testosterone will take over again.”
Discussing the fate of women’s safety if the ruling would have ruled in favour of transgender women, Davies warned that “women’s rights could disappear overnight” with a simple gender recognition certificate.
Davies concluded: “If we in law turn around and say that a £6 piece of paper changes your biological sex, then women’s rights will just disappear overnight.
“It’s ridiculous, and you don’t even need to have any surgery, take any treatments, change your clothes – do anything. You just literally have to say that you’re feeling like a woman and you’re living as a woman.”
