CNN nervously reports:

The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied.

Britain’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the definition of a woman in equality legislation refers to “a biological woman and biological sex,” sparking celebrations outside court among gender-critical campaigners but warnings it was a “worrying” development for transgender people.

The case centered on whether trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) – which offers legal recognition of someone’s female sex – are protected from discrimination as a woman under the nation’s Equality Act 2010.

It still, after all this time, seems absurd that we have to argue over the idea that a certificate should have the ability to override physical sex. There are some things that certificates can’t change. Quite a lot of things, actually.

“Interpreting ‘sex’ as certificated sex would cut across the definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ and thus the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way,” a summary of the ruling said, which added that transgender women could be excluded from same-sex facilities such as changing rooms if “proportionate.”

Would and does and has for years been cutting across the definitions of woman and man. Cutting across them and making an incoherent mess of them.

The justice insisted that the court’s interpretation of the Equality Act 2010 “does not remove protection from trans people,” with or without a GRC document. A trans woman could claim discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment, and because “she is perceived to be a woman,” added Hodge.

So a trans woman gets to count twice, eh? So trans women still get extras. How ridiculous.

Britain’s government “has always supported the protection of single-sex spaces based on biological sex,” a spokesperson said, following the ruling.

Has it? Really? Then what’s the Sandie Peggie-“Beth” Upton case all about? Why is Sandie Peggie being brutally persecuted for wanting “Beth” Upton to get out of the women’s changing room? Why hasn’t the government protected single spaces there?

Trans activists across the globe warn that the fierce public debate over their private lives has chipped away at protection for the marginalized and regularly vilified community in recent years.

But it’s not over their private lives. That’s exactly what it’s not. We don’t give a good god damn about their private lives; we object to their intrusions on our lives.