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Britain's Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the legal definition of "woman" excludes male transvestites.
Conservatives and feminists such as J.K. Rowling celebrated the court's affirmation of reality. Meanwhile, gender ideologues and LGBT activists who recently suffered other monumental defeats in the isles — namely Britain's ban of puberty blockers and the landmark Cass Review's confirmation that so-called gender science is bunk — melted down, characterizing the ruling as potentially harmful.
The court was tasked with sorting out the "correct interpretation" of the 2010 Equality Act, specifically the terms "woman" and "sex." The act provides protection against discrimination on the basis of various immutable characteristics.
The case found its way to the U.K.'s highest court on account of a legal dispute between the feminist organization For Women Scotland and the leftist Scottish government.
The feminist organization For Women Scotland kicked things off in 2018 by challenging Scottish legislation that would include male transvestites in quotas for women. The Scottish government maintained that men who secured gender recognition certificates identifying them as female were women where the law was concerned, reported the BBC. The case snowballed from there.
"This examination of the language of the EA 2010, its context and purpose, demonstrate that the words 'sex,' 'woman' and 'man' in sections 11 and 212(1) mean (and were always intended to mean) biological sex, biological woman and biological man," the court noted in its 88-page ruling.
'Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.'
"Interpreting 'sex' as certificated sex would cut across the definitions of 'man' and 'woman' and thus the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way. It would create heterogeneous groupings," stated the court. "As a matter of ordinary language, the provisions relating to sex discrimination, and especially those relating to pregnancy and maternity, and to protection from risks specifically affecting women, can only be interpreted as referring to biological sex.
Just in case there was any remaining doubt, the court clarified that a female posing as a man and carrying a GRC is a woman where the law is concerned and a male posing as a woman and carrying a GRC is a man.
The court evidently did not buy the suggestion that admitting that men are not women under the law would cause disadvantage to transvestites, noting they were still protected from discrimination under the Equality Act.
Judge Patrick Hodge, deputy president of the U.K. Supreme Court, stated that the ruling should not be read as "a triumph for one or more groups in our society at the expense of another."
Contrary to Hodge's suggestion, the ruling amounted to a major victory for those Britons keen on keeping opportunistic men out of women's spaces. After all, the court ruled that male transvestites with GRCs can be excluded from single-sex spaces such as women's bathrooms, changing rooms, and hostels.
"If sex means biological sex, then provided it is proportionate, the female-only nature of the service would ... permit the exclusion of all males including males living in the female gender regardless of GRC status," said the court. "Moreover, women living in the male gender could also be excluded under paragraph 28 without this amounting to gender reassignment discrimination."
"Absolutely jubilant here, tears!" For Women Scotland tweeted upon learning of the ruling.
Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch noted, "Saying 'trans women are women' was never true in fact and now isn't true in law, either."
Badenoch characterized the ruling as a "victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious. Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex."
J.K. Rowling noted, "It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court and, in winning, they've protected the rights of women and girls across the UK."
The three women Rowling referred to are Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith, the directors of For Women Scotland.
The leftist Scottish government vowed to remain an inclusive country after its defeat Wednesday, reported the Telegraph.
A spokesman for the government said, "We want to reassure everyone that the Scottish government is fully committed to protecting everyone's rights, to ensure that Scotland remains an inclusive country."
"This judgment further reinforces that the Equality Act does not, and never has, allowed for the self-identification of sex under the Act," the Edinburgh-based policy analysis group Murray Blackburn MacKenzie noted in a statement.
"Nonetheless, policies based on self-identification remain in place across the U.K., in hospitals, police forces, schools, and prisons. The U.K. and devolved governments, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, need to take responsibility for their role in this, take urgent steps to clear up the confusion, and ensure the ruling has effect on the ground," added the policy group.
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Two men meet in women's billiards final after dominating female tournament: 'I'm just a woman who is trying to live my life'
A women's pool tournament ended with two men facing off in the final due to a bizarre rule set focused on "inclusion."
The Ultimate Pool Women's Pro Series Event 2 at Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, England, featured Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both males, beating four women each to reach the finals of the 32-player tournament.
Haynes was the eventual winner after he held off Smith's late comeback, according to Fox News. The outlet reported that Smith has won 85 of 113 matches dating back to 2021, while Haynes has a lifetime .750 winning percentage.
The two male players have played each other in a women's tournament previously at the U.K. Mini Series pool championships in October; Haynes won that matchup, as well.
Haynes gave an interview to U.K. outlet the Independent in December and stated he does not consider himself "a trailblazer" but rather said he is a woman in all other aspects of life and is only questioned in billiards.
"I'm just a woman who is trying to live my life, and all I want to do is just be treated the same as any other woman."
The pool player said he works in an office environment, where he is "treated like a woman every single day in the rest of my life. This is the only aspect of my life where I'm not."
Transgender rules in pool
The English Pool Association lists a series of rules for transgender participants that get more obscure as they go on.
In order for a male to play in the female category, the athlete must first have "declared that her gender identity is female."
The declaration can only be changed every four years.
Testosterone levels have limits and, according to the rules, are monitored with testing. In the event of noncompliance, the athlete would be suspended for 12 months.
The rules then deeply explore one's "affirmed gender" and essentially reinforce the same guidelines while recognizing players can simply make no attempt to change anything about themselves while still competing as their preferred gender.
"It is generally assumed that a trans pool player will seek to play pool in their affirmed gender whether that is at domestic level or in the performance pathway," the rules explained. "It is possible that a trans player may seek the opposite to this (i.e. live in one gender and play in the opposite gender)."
"A trans player living in his or her affirmed gender may choose to play in his or her birth gender," but simply put, once a player declares a pathway for competition, they must stick to that gender category for domestic tournaments through national.
Ultimate Pool Group's transgender policy becomes even more bizarre when it comes to its justification.
After noting its rules are approved by the World Eight Ball Pool Federation, UPG said it promotes "a positive and inclusive environment" for all. Strangely, UPG declared under the same rules that one of its "core missions" is to "raise the profile and overall standard of the women's game."
Its rules then immediately state that UPG will not discriminate against anyone's "gender and gender identity" and will support players who are simply in the "process of reassigning their sex," even if that means only in a social manner, such as a simple name change or change of dress.
The next UPG event, allegedly for women, takes place May 23-25.
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Former Columbia University fellow, a current UN judge, found guilty of forcing young woman into slavery
An African U.N. Criminal Tribunal judge who was a fellow at Columbia University and has written extensively about human rights has been convicted of slavery.
Lydia Mugambe, a 49-year-old Ugandan living in Kidlington, England, was found guilty Thursday by a unanimous Oxford Crown Court jury of conspiring to violate U.K. immigration law; "requiring a person to perform force or compulsory labor"; conspiracy to intimidate a witness; and arranging travel for another person "with a view to exploitation."
Besides her work for the U.N., the African slaver has been a judge of the High Court of Uganda and a member of several professional associations, including the Oxford Human Rights Hub and the International Association of Women Judges.
Mugambe's virtue-signaling and judicial activism regarding "gender-based justice" earned her the so-called People's Choice Gavel Award from Women's Link Worldwide in 2017. According to a 2022 piece in Stellar Woman magazine celebrating the slaver's supposed accomplishments, Mugambe also won the Vera Chirwa human rights award of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, for her work "ensuring gender-based justice in Africa."
Columbia University, no stranger to criminals and extremists, notes on its website that the slaver was a fellow at its Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2017.
"Lydia Mugambe used her position to exploit a vulnerable young woman, controlling her freedom and making her work without payment," Eran Cutliffe, special prosecutor for the Crown Prosecutor Services' Special Crime Division, said in a statement. "Modern slavery and the exploitation of people by others for their own purposes has no place in modern society."
'Mugambe used her position of power as well as her knowledge of the law to take advantage of the victim.'
The Thames Valley Police received a tip on Feb. 10, 2023, that Mugambe was holding a young woman as a slave at her residence in Kidlingon. According to police, Mugambe obtained a visa for the victim to work in the U.K. with the understanding that the victim would work for the deputy high commissioner at the Ugandan Embassy in London, John Mugerwa — and receive compensation for doing so.
The former Columbia fellow paid for the victim's plane ticket, picked her up from the airport, then forced her into slavery. The victim was forced to perform the functions of a domestic maid and nanny without pay.
The Crown Prosecution Service indicated that Mugambe stole the victim's passport, biometric visa card, and phone, thereby isolating and grounding her.
According to the prosecution, Mugerwa was in on the scheme and facilitated the victim's visa knowing that she was destined for slavery. In return for his help getting her a slave, Mugambe would provide the deputy high commissioner with help in a court case back in Uganda, said the prosecutors.
While there was apparently ample evidence of Mugerwa's conspiracy with Mugambe to enslave a fellow African, the deputy high commissioner had diplomatic immunity, which his government decided not to waive.
Chief Superintendent Ben Clark of the Thames Valley Police said in a statement that given her experience as a lawyer and U.N. Criminal Tribunal judge, "there is no doubt that she knew she was committing offenses by bringing the victim to the U.K. under the pretense that she was going to work for the then Deputy High Commissioner at the Ugandan Embassy in London, thus providing her a legal route of entry, but knowing all along that she intended to make the victim work in servitude."
"Mugambe used her position of power as well as her knowledge of the law to take advantage of the victim, ensuring that she would become her unpaid domestic servant," added Clark.
According to the chief superintendent, Mugambe tried to use her affiliations with the U.N. and the Ugandan High Court as way to avoid accountability for enslaving a woman.
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UN Judge Found Guilty of Slavery
A United Nations judge was convicted on Thursday of trafficking a young woman to the United Kingdom and forcing her to work as a slave.
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