Joanne Lockwood

A Travesty of Justice: Unpicking the Supreme Court’s Gender Ruling

Why the Supreme Court’s definition of ‘sex’ fails the test of justice and lived reality

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Joanne Lockwood
May 15, 2025
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When the UK Supreme Court ruled in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers that the word woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to “biological sex,” it didn't just settle a legal technicality—it opened a Pandora’s box of ambiguity, unintended consequences, and social regression.

Listening to Melanie Field—former EHRC Commissioner and a respected equality …

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