PROTESTORS are set to gather in Reading later today (Saturday, March 17) in the second event of public action in response to the Supreme Court ruling last month.
Crowds are expected to gather outside the Town Hall from 1pm, where they will take part in a march through Friar Street, around to Forbury Gardens.
It comes in the wake of the ruling set out by the UK’s Supreme Court in April that the legal definition of a woman was “based on biological sex.”
In the ruling, judges regarded sex and gender to be interchangeable, saying that the concept of sex is “binary.”
The Supreme Court was overseeing the decision to define the correct interpretation of biological sex and what constituted a woman in the UK’s primary legislation which lays out legal protections for people based on their sex.
In their ruling, they said that the definition of biological sex, as laid out in the Equality Act of 2010, was binary, and exclusively determined by a person’s biology.
While the judges argued they were not ruling on wider public discourse on the issue of transgender people, the ruling could mean that a person who was not born as a biological female, possibly including people who are intersex, would not be afforded any of the protections that the Gender Equality Act of 2010 provides to women.
The protest takes place at the Town Hall, Reading, from 1pm, today (Saturday, May 17.)
