Mick Hartley

And Janice Turner:

The question that has made politicians sputter or, in the case of Nicola Sturgeon, implode their careers, is answered. Campaigners held their collective breath for legal caveats, but none came: the ruling was categorical and clear.

The concept of woman does not include male persons who, with a bit of admin and £6, have acquired a gender recognition certificate (GRC). Or as a placard outside put it more bluntly: “Women are born, not some bloke with a form.”

Moreover, self-ID — the notion that a person has a right to access changing rooms or sports based upon nebulous inner gender — is utterly finished. As is the dishonest, deliberate muddying of legal waters by LGBT groups who have insisted gender and sex can be used interchangeably. The law has upheld the gender-critical, or rather, common sense position: sex is real.

Services and protections that generations of women battled to create — from rape trauma support groups to female sports — no longer have to worry about being sued by trans-identifying men. Lord Hodge gave a special mention to lesbians “who have historically suffered marginalisation” and whose right to gather for social or romantic reasons was under serious threat from those who believe lesbians can have penises….

This judgment must be read by every member of the Labour government (who should be grateful they will not now be called upon to clarify the Equality Act, as many feared). It should be sent to civil servants, sports bodies, NHS trusts and to every HR department in the land. The capture of our national institutions by this misogynist ideology is not over, but the end is in sight, thanks to the bravery and determination of the women who wouldn’t wheesht.