Our Response: The Diversity Trust on the UK Supreme Court ruling (16th April, 2025), regarding the legal definition of a ‘woman’. 

Like many organisations and community groups who work for and are led by LGBTQ+ people, The Diversity Trust is hugely concerned about the waves of discrimination which are set to impact the LGBTQ+ community following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling.  

The ruling handed down by the court has outlined that “woman” and “man”, as per the Equality Act 2010, means “biological woman” and “biological man”. This means that trans people are now identified by the sex they were assigned at birth, not their chosen gender, whether they have a Gender Recognition Certificate or not. 

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