Judgement
Early in Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece The Devils, a meeting of “incredibly vain” and well-lubricated “new men” is recalled:
“They talked about the abolition of the censorship and spelling reform…of the abolition of the army and the navy, of the agrarian reform and of the political pamphlets, of the abolition of inheritance, the family, children and the priesthood, of the rights of women…”
This passage came to my mind when I heard that our (misnamed) UK Supreme Court had ruled, in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, that for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act the term “woman” is to be restricted to biological females. Those not biologically female yet carrying a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) declaring them to be female will not be regarded in law as coming under the definition of “woman” with regard to the Equality Act.
