The UK supreme court has issued a historic and definitive ruling that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex.

So as the dust settles on the ruling, what can we take away from it?

The United Kingdom’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that males who identify as women do not fall qualify as women under anti-discrimination law, a monumental decision that will have major consequences for British law.

The UK Supreme Court is to deliver its verdict on how a woman should be defined in law.

The announcement marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle between the Scottish government and a women's group.

The outcome could have far-reaching implications on how sex-based rights apply across Scotland, England and Wales.

The Trump administration has ordered the National Institutes of Health to study the physical and mental health effects of undergoing gender transition, according to an internal NIH memo obtained by NPR.

President Trump declared that going forward it will “be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”

Trump will sign executive orders on Monday ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government and instituting a policy recognizing individuals’ biological sex rather than their expressed gender identity.

President Donald Trump has begun his promised flurry of executive action on Day 1.

With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden’s actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep TikTok open in the U.S., among other actions. He pardoned hundreds of people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The second of the two boxers caught up in a gender eligibility row at the Paris Olympics has won gold, 24 hours after the first. The Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting secured a gold medal in convincing fashion by defeating the young Pole, Julia Szeremeta, in the final of the women’s 57kg event. Lin won every round unanimously and was never in trouble, punching the air and embracing her coach after a fight she controlled from the start.

A final opponent had been dismantled and there was a gold medal around her neck, but Imane Khelif was not done throwing punches. 

The Algerian at the centre of a gender row, over whom questions will now grow louder after she completed a Parisian stroll to Olympics glory, came into the post-fight press conference swinging.

Here, there was no ducking or dodging, only more powerful blows, this time raining down on the critics who say she should not have been here, fighting against women, after failing a sex test last year.