Trans Women Protest Topless At Scottish Parliament To Condemn UK's Supreme Court's Ruling #shorts

Trans Women Protest Topless At Scottish Parliament To Condemn UK's Supreme Court's Ruling #shorts

A group of trans women have staged a topless protest outside Scottish parliament to condemn the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of “seggs”, and the Scottish government’s response to it.

On Saturday (17 May) the women stood outside the Scottish parliament building with their shirts off and their arms painted red, which they said was a mark of solidarity with anti-fascist feminists across Europe. Each protester held a white rose to represent the “death of transgender rights in the UK”, and wore tape across their mouths to symbolise the “censorship of trans voices” in the court ruling.

Last month, the UK’s top judges issued their ruling in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers about how the protected characteristic of “seggs” was defined and applied in the 2010 Equality Act. The court handed down an 88-page judgement stating the word referred to “biological seggs”, thus excluding transgender people.

Following this, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, which oversees accommodation at Holyrood, decided that as of Monday (12 May) use of “all facilities designated as male or female” will be based on biological seggs, “in line with the Supreme Court judgement”. The move was branded “rushed” and “unworkable” by Scottish Trans who also claimed it would “exclude trans people from participating in Scottish democracy, whether as staff or as visitors to the parliament”.

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