It didn’t remove protections trans people had yesterday. It clarified that they didn’t have those protections under that law yesterday, because the law in question defined women by sex. Now that is understood, further legislation to add protections can be proposed. The ruling also pointed out that there are also existing protections under another law.
Practically they did have them though, albeit under a legal grey area.
The ruling also pointed out that there are also existing protections under another law.
They said you can’t discriminate against trans people on the basis of gender reassignment. You can, however, simultaneously discrimination against trans people on the basis of assigned gender at birth and they can be excluded from sex-segregated spaces of their assigned gender if they look too much like the other sex. So the Supreme Court just ruled on the question of ‘which toilet should a trans person use’ by saying ‘neither’. This is what happens when you only consult with trans hate groups like Sex Matters and don’t consult with trans people.
How is a ruling that just removed protections trans people had yesterday a ‘positive step’?
It didn’t remove protections trans people had yesterday. It clarified that they didn’t have those protections under that law yesterday, because the law in question defined women by sex. Now that is understood, further legislation to add protections can be proposed. The ruling also pointed out that there are also existing protections under another law.
Practically they did have them though, albeit under a legal grey area.
They said you can’t discriminate against trans people on the basis of gender reassignment. You can, however, simultaneously discrimination against trans people on the basis of assigned gender at birth and they can be excluded from sex-segregated spaces of their assigned gender if they look too much like the other sex. So the Supreme Court just ruled on the question of ‘which toilet should a trans person use’ by saying ‘neither’. This is what happens when you only consult with trans hate groups like Sex Matters and don’t consult with trans people.