Slide 1 Image text: Cardiff March for Trans Liberation. Monday April 21st 1PM. Aneurin Bevan Statue, Queen Street, Cardiff. Join us to protest the Supreme Court ruling excluding Trans women and femmes from womens spaces. There will be indoor space available after to rest, decompress, and support each other. The logos for We Exist, Trans Pride Cardiff, Black Lives Matter Cardiff & Vale, and Trans Aid Cymru are across the bottom. An image of people wearing progress and trans pride flags is in the background.
Statement: On April 16, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the definition of a “woman” as stated in the Equality Act 2010 refers to ‘ biological women and biological sex.” The case relates to an appeal by anti-trans group For Women Scotland, against the Scottish Government. This ruling legally excludes trans women—even those with Gender Recognition Certificates—from protections designed for women, setting a dangerous precedent that reinforces the authority of the state to dictate our bodies and right to self determination. This decision was made without a single trans voice permitted to speak in court. Three of the four intervenors were explicitly anti-trans, and a retired trans judge, Victoria McCloud, was blocked from offering evidence. The court’s ruling was not only unjust, it was engineered to be. When the people most affected are denied the right to speak, it is a show trial in service of state violence.
This ruling does precisely the opposite of what it has claimed it will. It will not reduce violence against women. It will not progress women’s liberation. It will expand the misogynistic far-rights power to gender police and strengthen the state’s power to divide, dominate, and control women whose bodies and expression do not conform to its norms. The ruling is not a win for feminism, it tramples on the sacrifices of global feminists who have fought to redefine what it means to be a woman on our own terms. It harms all women, and tries to weaken our collective power by turning us against one another. This ruling isn’t isolated—it is the same system that profits from division, exploitation and suffering. The same government that has weaponized this ruling also fuels the ongoing genocide in Palestine. The same forces that target the trans community also drive the destruction of the planet. It is the capitalist-state that allows a few to determine all of our lives.
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