Mick Hartley

From the Times:

Judges will no longer have to refer to criminal defendants by the gender of their choice in an update after the Supreme Court’s transgender ruling.

The revised guidance abandons self-identification language and reaffirms the binary definition of sex to state that the legal definition of a woman means biological female rather than sex attained by the acquisition of a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

It says that non-binary status has no legal footing and sets out that courts may refuse contested pronouns.

Rape suspects should not be referred to as female and there is “no entitlement” for anyone to use single-sex services intended for the opposite sex, the guidance says.

It previously stated that judges should refer to criminal defendants by the gender they have chosen for themselves.

About bloody time. Will we now see an end to press reports of women rapists, "her penis" and so on? That'd be nice.