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UK supreme court rules that legal protections for women don't apply to trans women even if they hold gender recognition certificates. (www.theguardian.com)

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TERF island making it official, JK Rowling already celebrating.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

The UK has "gender recognition certificates" that are only held by about 1% of trans people iirc. They're notoriously hard to acquire even if you've medically transitioned, and aren't that useful beyond changing your gender on documents like passports I think

I'm pretty sure this ruling totally overrules GRCs or at least doesn't mention them. Even for those with a cert you're still affected.