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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-30T08:39:57.000Z",
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    "MoD accused of failing servicewomen as transgender policy STILL unchanged after Supreme Court ruling",
    "Parents, teachers and doctors risk JAIL for trying to talk child out of trans treatment",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nFormer Supreme Court judge Baroness Brenda Hale, who has previously claimed there is no such thing as biological sex, said she would have wanted to have delivered the For Women Scotland (FWS) judgment, GB News can exclusively disclose.\n\nSpeaking at an event at Durham University, the now-retired Baroness told attendees the FWS ruling on biological sex was the case she would most like to have sat on as a judge.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nShe previously indicated she disagrees with the judgment, saying the legal definition of a woman based on biological sex “has been misinterpreted”.\n\nIn the high-profile case, campaign group FWS challenged a Scottish Court ruling that transgender women should be considered legally female.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn April last year, Supreme Court judges ruled in favour of For Women Scotland, finding unanimously the terms \"sex\", \"man\", and \"woman\" in the Equality Act 2010 refer strictly to biological sex.\n\nThe ruling was hailed as a triumph by gender critical campaigners who have long sought to protect single-sex facilities for women, arguing that trans women - born male - should not have the right to access female-only services.\n\nDespite the finality of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the influential Lady Hale has not refrained from criticising the judgment.\n\nJust 18 per cent of the British public believe the Supreme Court made the wrong judgment in the FWS case.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIt will come as a blow to many that such a prominent and influential figure as Lady Hale has continued to seek to criticise the position now established in law.\n\nShadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy said judges are not to \"behave like political activists\".\n\nSpeaking to GB News, he said: \"The role of judges is to apply the law, not to behave like political activists. The Supreme Court was perfectly clear that when the Equality Act refers to sex, it means biological sex.\"\n\n\"The law should reflect the biological reality that there are two genders, and that single sex spaces and activities should be protected, and the law on this is now settled. The Conservatives will always stand up for sex based rights and for common sense,\" he added.\n\nA spokeswoman for For Women Scotland said they were “puzzled” by Baroness Hale’s comments and questioned whether the retired judge believes “she could have done a better job”.\n\nShe told GB News: “We are puzzled why, of all the cases Baroness Hale has sat on over the years, what she thinks is so special about our case.\n\n“In truth, the question determined by the Supreme Court was very clear, both in legal and scientific terms.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:\n\n\n\n\n  * MoD accused of failing servicewomen as transgender policy STILL unchanged after Supreme Court ruling\n  * MoD accused of failing servicewomen as transgender policy STILL unchanged after Supreme Court ruling\n  * Parents, teachers and doctors risk JAIL for trying to talk child out of trans treatment\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n“We wonder if Baroness Hale felt she could have done a better job or if there was something she felt was missed? “\n\nBaroness Hale was the first female President of the UK Supreme Court, shooting to public attention during the post-Brexit political fallout.\n\nIn 2017, Lady Hale and the other Supreme Court Justices ruled the Government could not trigger Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union to leave the EU without a vote in parliament.\n\nShe convened a panel of Justices in 2019 who ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament was “unlawful”.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn remarks at the Charleston literary festival in East Sussex last August the former Supreme Court judge questioned the meaning of “biological sex”.\n\nShe said: “I was with some doctors last week who said there is no such thing as biological sex,” adding her main concern was the “very binary reaction that there has been to” the judgment.\n\nThe FWS ruling was welcomed by campaigners across the country, who hoped the judgment would settle once and for all the question of whether biological males were legally allowed to use women’s toilets and changing facilities.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nDespite the unanimity of the judges in the case, many public bodies have yet to change their policies to reflect the judgment and arguments continue to play out between political parties and other interest groups.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission (ECHR) shared their advice earlier this month on how businesses and public bodies should protect female-only spaces following the ruling last year.\n\nEducation Secretary Bridget Phillipson approved the advice.\n\nIncoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham said last month the ruling should be “implemented” and arguments on the matter needed to “stop”.\n\nHe said: “Let’s implement the guidance, but to do it in the fairest and most compassionate way possible.\"\n\n“We’ve got to stop arguing with each other. We’ve got to start by finding some common ground and start pulling together,” he added.\n\nGB News has reached out to Baroness Hale for comment.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Former Supreme Court judge who denied biological sex exists says she wished she had delivered the ruling that proved her wrong"
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