The Supreme Court justices emphasised that transgender people already have protections against discrimination and harassment written into the Equality Act. The arguments in court centred on whether trans women with gender recognition certificates (GRC) should be treated as women by the Equality Act.

Britain’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that transgender women can’t legally be considered women under the country’s equality laws. The decision in the country’s highest court Wednesday comes after a yearslong legal fight over the definition of a woman in a 2010 law,

The U.K. Supreme Court is set to decide a case on the definition of a woman in a long-running dispute between a women’s rights group and the Scottish government