JK Rowling broke her silence after the UK Supreme Court ruled the definition of a woman.
The author of Harry Potter said she was “proud” of the “stubborn Scottish women” who brought the case to court.
This morning, on April 16, a group of five judges supported the Resistance Campaign of Scottish Women, and against the Scottish government, declared a “woman” in the Equality Act, known as “biological women and biological gender”.
They also slammed the SNP minister for pushing for an “incoherent” explanation that would make women’s rights worse.
The ruling comes after three years of fighting among feminist campaigners who believe a woman should be defined only as those born rather than trans women.
After the decision, Rowling landed on X and wrote: “After the back there were three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women behind her, who tried the case in the Supreme Court and, when they won, protected the rights of women and girls throughout England.
“I am honored to know you for the Scottish woman.”
Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Simler found in a 88-page ruling Supreme Court judge Lord Hodge: “The definition of gender in the Equality Act of 2010 clearly shows that the concept of sex is binary, whether a person is a woman or a man.”
Lord Hodge said the court’s unanimous decision was that “the definition of women and gender terms in the Equality Act 2010 refers to a biological woman and biological gender”.
The Supreme Court added that the law still provides protection for transgender people from discrimination.
Debate on cross-rights and women’s spaces has been intensifying for years, with major legal challenges and public figures raising challenges nationwide against extremist perceptions of gender.
However, the problem broke out in 2020, when national treasure jk Rowling slammed the growing trend of replacing “biogenic” with “gender identity”, which caused anger in the trans hall.
Ms. Rowling’s provocative stance – announcing “sex is real” – triggered a death threat, but also made her an avatar for the “key gender” movement.
Scottish women’s principal Trina Budge said the landmark decision, saying: “It is definitely a victory for women’s rights.
“This case is always about women, never about cross-rights, as Justice Hodge said, still fully protected in law, but now we have a clear view of what women mean in law.”
