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Official Lib Dem reaction to today’s Supreme Court judgement

It’s been a tough day for trans and non binary people and for those who love them. The Judgement handed down by the Supreme Court on the definition of a woman throughout the Equality Act 2010 has understandably caused significant anxiety about what this could mean for the rights of trans people.

For me there seems to be an inherent contradiction between

The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

and

the legislation gives transgender people “protection, not only against discrimination through the protected characteristic

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