A student who was removed from Leeds Student Radio, after an interview with a detransitioner, says she hopes today’s court ruling will "send shock waves around other common law countries".
Following a challenge by campaign group For Women Scotland, Lord Hodge of the Supreme Court declared that the Equality Act 2010 refers to "a biological woman and sex".
Lord Hodge told the court: "Our role is to ascertain the meaning of the legislation which parliament has enacted to that end. The central question on this appeal is the meaning of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010.
"Do those terms refer to biological women or biological sex? Or is a woman to be interpreted as extending to a trans woman with a gender recognition certificate?"
Connie Shaw celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling in favour of biological women
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Speaking to GB News, Connie Shaw declared the decision was "such a momentous day for women's rights in this country".
She praised For Women's Scotland and campaigners who fought for "legal rights to be able to say that women should be able to have single sex spaces and exclude all men, no matter how they identify."
Shaw expressed her emotional reaction to the ruling, saying: "I don't really have much to say other than flipping get in! I just can't stop smiling."
Shaw believes the ruling will have far-reaching consequences beyond the UK: "Hopefully it will send shock waves around other common law countries such as Australia, which are having real issues with women's rights there at the moment too."
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Campaigners celebrated today's ruling outside the Supreme CourtPAShe expressed hope that the decision "will have an effect on the whole world."
The ruling holds particular significance for Shaw as Susan Smith, a director of For Women's Scotland, was influential in shaping her views.
"Susan Smith was the first gender critical feminist that I ever spoke to and realised that actually I did think this was a huge issue," Shaw explained.
"That episode can still be listened to. It's the most listened to episode on the Leeds Student Radio SoundCloud, which I feel very smug about," she added.
Shaw told GB News that she hopes the decision has an affect 'on the whole world'
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Discussing her own dismissal from student radio for her gender critical views, in light of the ruling, Shaw claims she was never told exactly what led to her removal from her committee position.
"When I was suspended, I was suspended on the basis that, essentially, I was a health and safety risk to other members, and I hadn't acted in a selfless way and that I brought LSR into disrepute," she told GB News.
"The Free Speech Union and I believe it was to do with my gender critical views," she stated.
She noted that her interview with Smith took place "almost exactly this time last year" and proudly added: "And now we've won!"
