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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-147/
- Published: 2025-04-17T18:30:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-17T18:30:10.000Z
- Description: Five judges ruled that the UK Equality Act means trans women can be excluded from some groups and single-sex spaces.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, Feminism

> The UK Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish government.  
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> The court said the unanimous ruling shouldn’t be seen as victory by one side, but several women’s groups that supported the appeal celebrated outside court and hailed it as a major win in their effort to protect spaces designated for women.  
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> “Everyone knows what sex is and you can’t change it,” said Susan Smith, co-director of For Women Scotland, which brought the case. “It’s common sense, basic common sense, and the fact that we have been down a rabbit hole where people have tried to deny science and to deny reality, and hopefully this will now see us back to reality.”  
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> Five judges ruled that the UK Equality Act means trans women can be excluded from some groups and single-sex spaces such as changing rooms, homeless shelters, swimming areas and medical or counseling services provided only to women.  
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> 1News

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