The Vindication of Women

The mills of truth grind very slowly but they do grind exceedingly well

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The reaction to last week’s supreme court judgement confirming that, in relation to the Equality Act 2010, the term “woman” exclusively refers to “biological sex” has been everything you might have expected. Broadly speaking, there have been three camps of people here.

In the first, the women - for it has always largely been women - who have spent years deploring the manner in which a political consensus developed in which women and their rights were marginalised and downgraded, sacrificed to the metaphysical concept of “gender identity”. These are the women of For Women Scotland, the Lesbian Project, and other campaigning organisations. These are the women of Mumsnet too - for, indeed, the three surviving founders of FWS first met on Mumsnet - and they will be …