British anti-discrimination law requires the rights of trans women and other women to be balanced, two High Court judges said in a judgment that comes amid debate in Britain and elsewhere over whether trans rights conflict with those of women.
Friday’s decision by the London-based court is the third ruling in England and Scotland this year to affirm that trans women should be treated as women apart from in exceptional circumstances. “It is not possible to argue that the Defendant (Britain’s justice ministry) should have excluded from women’s prisons all transgender women,” judge Timothy Holroyde wrote in the ruling. “To do so would be to ignore, impermissibly, the rights of transgender women to live in their chosen gender.” The judges said