EuropeanWoman

Continually baffled by the humans on this poor, battered planet. 🤯 #ThoroughlyIndecent #LetWomenSpeak 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 Living in UK 20 years plus. No lists.

[EuropeanWoman @StayWithEU]

#WeAreAllDonaldTusk

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, says that he wonders "what the special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely...”

[EuropeanWoman @StayWithEU]

@WomenReadWomen 💔

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

In most cases, I don’t think they believe men can actually be women, they just believe men should be able to do whatever they want & get really angry when women say “NO” to it.

[Not All Gays Ireland 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @NotAllGays]

We awaited Belong To’s response to the UK Supreme Court ruling—a decision with no jurisdiction in Ireland—with bated breath. And right on cue, they delivered a statement full of emotion, and void of legal comprehension.

Once again, for Irish NGOs struggling with the basics: the ruling does not remove protections for people with trans identities. The Equality Act 2010 continues to protect people with or without a Gender Recognition Certificate from discrimination. What the Court clarified—unanimously—is that biological sex is also a distinct and protected characteristic under law. That’s not erasure. That’s legal literacy.

What makes this even more laughable is that it was Belong To—and NGOs just like them—that once preached the mantra “sex and gender are different.” Now that the Supreme Court has simply confirmed that very distinction in law, they’re performing horror as though the sky has fallen. It hasn’t. The ruling has just re-established something obvious: that women are allowed boundaries.

Belong To claims this judgment “takes away the possibility of being who you are.” In reality, it simply affirms that women—actual, biological females—can lawfully maintain female-only spaces where justified. Spaces like rape crisis centres, domestic violence shelters, women’s prisons, and lesbian groups. These exist to serve and protect females—because sex matters.

But the most revealing part of this performative outcry is what it actually exposes: that these NGOs fundamentally do not believe females deserve any spaces of their own. Not under any circumstance. Not even when our safety, dignity, or basic rights depend on it.

That’s not progress. That’s misogyny in a new outfit.

We at Not All Gays, an Irish LGB organisation, welcome this long-overdue legal clarity. And we sincerely hope Ireland takes note—because the confusion and social coercion caused by the Gender Recognition Act 2015 has left women and same-sex attracted people without the protections they deserve.

#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Absolutely delighted with this.

The judgment puts women's rights back at the heart of the Equality Act

[EuropeanWoman @StayWithEU]

@Nettleshippy Brilliant clip.

[Helen Nettleship @Nettleshippy]

2015 Germaine Greer “ Transgender women are not women”

(you’re cancelled, bigot)

2025 The Supreme Court “ Transgender women are not women”

10 years

Everyone should have just listened to Greer https://t.co/KgoQQwRjhy

[The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom @UKSupremeCourt]

Judgment has been given this morning in the matter of For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) UKSC 2024/0042: https://t.co/QGmrliNOsG

[The Countess @TheCountessIE]

Calls made for Ireland to follow UK re sex based definition of ‘woman’

Calling on Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, to take action, The Countess said, “Who can argue with the fairness and logic of the UK Supreme Court ruling? This is a return to common sense and reflects biological reality.”

A statement made by the group, which campaigns for the rights of women and children, said, “For far too long the conflict between the Gender Recognition Act, which seemingly allows one to change one’s sex, and the exceptions in Equality law under the gender grounds, which provide protections based on biological sex have caused chaos in law, in science, and in daily life.” the group said in a statement.

“Sex is binary and immutable. It is not possible to change sex and finally we have legal clarity on this issue, at least in our
neighbouring jurisdiction. As we have seen, where UK test cases lead the world follows, after all it was Keira Bell’s judicial review of The UK Tavistock Clinic that led to the banning of puberty blockers in the UK and elsewhere.”

https://t.co/jibhKqOx4n

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

This means so much, John. Thank you.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Women were not asked if they were ok with men in their sports. It was just decided for us. It took years before we were polled, if at all. This has to change. We need a women’s sports union that will not let this happen again

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

We are hugely grateful to @ForWomenScot for bringing this case.

At great personal cost, they have provided women in the UK with essential clarity about the way equality law works. Their bravery cannot be overstated.

It’s been a long road and we have been proud to intervene on their side in the Supreme Court along with the lesbian intervenors.

Photo credit: @Anna_Moffat

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Who would like to see Professor Robert Winston back on TV? 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

Plus the BBC owes him a apology!

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

https://t.co/nRMfPPyP4q
Supreme Court rules that a woman is legally defined as . . . a woman. Congratulations.
And “The concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man”. Yes, the science was settled in the Precambrian. Nice that the law has finally caught up.

[Emily WD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

Six months ago, a 17-year-old girl footballer cried during proceedings when @FA found her guilty of 'discrimination' and banned her for six matches - for stating what Supreme court ruled yesterday - that a bearded 'transgender' player was a man.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

A court was only ever needed to decide what a woman is because men decided they can be women. The law, and society, has always known what a woman is - for better or worse.

No one will understand the actual turmoil of going through a court case to establish what a woman is unless you have had to do it. It’s even more stressful than the stupid premise suggests. Sleepless nights, hair falling out, sporadic inconsolable crying fits. But yet, we persist. Because we have to.

@ForWomenScot have my full admiration, and more. They are right, they have done the right thing and history will remember them on the right side. It’s inevitable. Men will never be women.

Never tell women we’re not a reality. We know the reality all too well and will fight to defend it.

Women have had to fight for everything we have. We got nothing in law and society by accident. This is just the latest fight, albeit possibly the most stupid.

I cannot wait to one day take my daughter to Scotland and show her the inevitable For Women Scotland statue and tell her “they did this for you”.

Thank you. And in the words of the late, great, Magdalen Berns, “fuck off you wanker”.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

This is not the Woman of the Day post. No one meets the criteria.

This is the Woman of the Year post because three women do - For Women Scotland’s Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith who said in 2019:

"If we cannot see sex, then we cannot see sexism, we cannot define sexuality, and it is the most vulnerable women who will suffer from this."

They first met online in 2018 via that hotbed of radicalism, Mumsnet, and then in real life, little knowing that the next seven years would be dedicated to setting up For Women Scotland, spending countless hours learning the complexities of the law, mastering the skill of writing policy documents, lobbying politicians and the United Nations.

They were labelled bigots, transphobes, fascists, Nazis, anti-abortionists, far right, Holocaust-deniers - all because they held the view that there are only two sexes and that human beings cannot change sex.

It took For Women Scotland six years and the legal equivalent of Snakes and Ladders in which it lost a judicial review but won on appeal, and lost a second judicial review and a second appeal, to reach the Supreme Court on 26 November 2024 for a two-day hearing with unbelievably high stakes for every woman and every girl in Great Britain.

I do not underestimate for one moment the pressure this placed on Trina, Marion and Susan: the cost to them financially and personally, the worry, the sleepless nights, the huge chunk it took out of their lives and the lives of their families, but I will be forever grateful that they never hesitated, never quailed, that they stood firm.

One day when historians examine this period of history and write of countries captured by the frankly absurd belief that men could become women, could even be lesbians, and that there are 93 genders, the day when academics theorise on why madness arrives in crowds but sanity returns one person at a time, they will speak of the three women who took on the Scottish government and legal system, restored sanity to the UK and won.

On 16 April 2025, Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith secured this glorious legal victory for For Women Scotland and for all of us:

"The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”
Lord Hodge, Supreme Court

Brava, For Women Scotland! 💚🤍💜

Photo credit: @Anna_Moffat

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

When you go for a swim or to the gym tell your provider you want what the law says they must provide, a single sex space to change in.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

You think you know happiness, and then you see this 🩷