London Marathon Upholds Trans Inclusivity Despite Supreme Court Ruling

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On 4/25/2025 at 4:05 AM, JonnyF said:

The law as it stands now is perfectly

 

We are talking about the UK and as far as I know, the law has not changed recently.

 

In a case where a local council used a women's quota for the composition of its  committee, the Supreme Court ruled that a so-called trans woman or transgender woman could not, on the basis of existing laws, be counted as part of the women's quota because the qualifying criterion must  be the sex assigned at birth.

 

The question of the legality of counting a transgender woman as a woman in sports events was not touched upon in this court decision.

 

Currently, from what  I have read, different sports organisation use different criteria for allowing transgender persons to participate in competitions limited to members of a specific sex.

 

The news article quoted iin the OP does not mention what criteria are used by the organisers of the London Marathon. For this reason, I consider a discussion of this topic to be futile.