UK Supreme Court can define a woman, but the State of Maine is being sued because it cannot
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
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The BBC reported that the UK Supreme Court made a scientifically accurate ruling:
Supreme Court backs ‘biological’ definition of woman
16 April 2025
Judges at the UK Supreme Court have unanimously ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law.
It marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle which could have major implications for how sex-based rights apply across Scotland, England and Wales.
The court sided with campaign group For Women Scotland, which brought a case against the Scottish government arguing that sex-based protections should only apply to people that are born female. …
The Scottish government argued in court that transgender people with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) are entitled to the same sex-based protections as biological women.
The Supreme Court was asked to decide on the proper interpretation of the 2010 Equality Act, which applies across Britain.
Lord Hodge said the central question was how the words “woman” and “sex” are defined in the legislation.
He told the court: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7pqzk47zo
Yes, even having a piece of paper from some government entity does not change one’s sex.
It is nice that the UK Supreme Court recognized reality.
Sadly, that is not the case for at least the latest member of the US Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson. When asked to define a woman, she asserted that she could not because she was not a biologist. That was a terrible answer, but she was afraid to public admit what she understood to be the biological realities.
She and many others perhaps are apparently not educated enough to 1) accept the truth or 2) realize the origin of the word woman.
The Old English words “womb” (womb, also known as a uterus) and “mann” (person or human) were combined to form “wīfmann,” which later changed into the Modern English word “woman.”
So, a woman is a person who naturally has a womb.
Despite how obvious that is, notice the following absurdity from someone at CNN:
“It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth,” CNN’s Devan Cole wrote. https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/cnn-ridiculed-for-saying-no-consensus-for-assigning-sex-at-birth/
Actually, yes it is possible. And there has been a consensus for thousands of years by billions of people to assign sex at birth based on genitalia.
Furthermore, with modern technology there is another way. Notice the following from LiveScience.com:
How sex is determined
Humans have an additional pair of sex chromosomes for a total of 46 chromosomes. The sex chromosomes are referred to as X and Y, and their combination determines a person’s sex. Typically, human females have two X chromosomes while males possess an XY pairing. This XY sex-determination system is found in most mammals as well as some reptiles and plants.
Whether a person has XX or XY chromosomes is determined when a sperm fertilizes an egg. Unlike the body’s other cells, the cells in the egg and sperm — called gametes or sex cells — possess only one chromosome. Gametes are produced by meiosis cell division, which results in the divided cells having half the number of chromosomes as the parent, or progenitor, cells. In the case of humans, this means that parent cells have two chromosomes and gametes have one.
All of the gametes in the mother’s eggs possess X chromosomes. The father’s sperm contains about half X and half Y chromosomes. The sperm are the variable factor in determining the sex of the baby. If the sperm carries an X chromosome, it will combine with the egg’s X chromosome to form a female zygote. If the sperm carries a Y chromosome, it will result in a male. accessed 04/30/21 https://www.livescience.com/27248-chromosomes.html
Those claiming to be ‘transgendered’ are confused and in scientific error as the overwhelming majority of them are not ‘transgendered’ biologically, but confused mentally and spiritually.
The LGBTQ crowd pushes not only transgenderism, but the idea that gender is fluid. The idea that you can be one gender on one day, then another gender another day.
Yet, men and women are different. While one of the differences is genitalia, there are more differences than that. But one’s chromosomes never change.
And Ketanji Brown Jackson is not the only leader in the US that has trouble with gender truths.
Notice also the following from CBS:
DOJ files lawsuit against Maine claiming the state violated Title IX by “by failing to protect women in women’s sports”
April 16, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is filing a civil lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education for “discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women’s sports” in what she alleged is a violation of Title IX.
“The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports,” Bondi said. “This is about sports, this is also about these young womens’ personal safety.”
The move marks an escalation between the Trump administration and Maine over the issue. President Trump signed an executive order in February to ban transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity, mandating that Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in schools, be interpreted as prohibiting the participation of transgender girls and women in female sports. President Trump said states not in compliance would jeopardize any federal funding they receive.
Then, in a tense moment between Mr. Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, later in February, the president threatened that her state wouldn’t get federal funding if it didn’t comply with the executive order barring transgender athletes from competing on women’s sports teams. Mills replied, “See you in court.”
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who appeared alongside Bondi on Wednesday, said “I hope Gov. Mills will recognize that her political feud with the president will deprive the students in her state of much more than the right to fair sporting events.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maine-title-ix-transgender-athletes-trump-executive-order/
There is no such thing as transgender girls. There is such a thing as boys who pretend to be girls, but they still are not girls, nor do they grow up to be women.
Related to transgender and sports matters, we put out the following video:
Olympics and Biology
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had a report published in the ‘British Medical Journal’ that claimed, ” No athlete should be precluded from competing or excluded from the competition on the exclusive ground of an unverified, alleged or perceived unfair competitive advantage due to their sex variations, physical appearance and/or transgender status.” Does that IOC position make biological sense? Do biological males have significant advantages in many sports? Why do we not hear of many females who want to compete against males? What are some of the biological advantages that males have compared to females when it comes to sports? Have Olympians objected to the inclusion of those asserting that they are transgendered? Does the Bible have comments that are relevant on these matters? Steve Dupuie and Dr. Thiel go over some of these issues.
Here is a link to our video: Olympics and Biology.
The transgender movement is destructive to society and that includes female sports.
Back on June 1, 2022, a video titled What is a Woman was released. Here is some information about it:
June 2, 2022
Matt Walsh’s provocative documentary, What Is a Woman?, aired online at The Daily Wire on June 1, in what the political commentator and podcast host said was “an all-out assault on gender ideology.”
It’s an ideology that uses the language of “boys and girls” and “men and women,” but can’t define what any of those are.
Walsh used thoughtful questions and humor – there are some laugh-out-loud moments – to point out the fallacies behind “gender theory.”
But even the humor has a disturbing edge, when you realize how pervasive this post-modern belief system is, how far away from the truth, and how many are in its grip.
As one of my sons said, “It was funny until you realized how sad it was.”
What Is a Woman? is intense, with moments of deep pathos, as when it showed the devastating damage to individuals and families – the direct result of gender theories that are completely disconnected from reality and truth.
Ideas have consequences.
I’ve been researching and writing about transgender issues for a long time, and even though I was familiar with many of the stories told and the truths articulated, I found the film gut-wrenching at times and deeply thought provoking.
I’d written about some of these people, but it’s different watching them tell their stories onscreen. The documentary is not for the faint of heart.
One devastating testimony came from a Canadian father who “misgendered” his 13-year-old daughter. He was imprisoned for the offense. A Canadian court mandated male hormones for the young girl, over his objections.
Another poignant story was told by a woman who had hormones and surgeries to “transition into” a man. Scott Newgent’s body, health, finances and family have been devastated by surgeries and synthetic hormones.
Here are some other the highlights (and lowlights) that stood out to me.
- “Truth” doesn’t exist for people who’ve bought into gender identity – except “your truth.”
- When asked, “What is a woman?”, people can’t say, are afraid to say, or don’t know how to answer the question.
- Many gender dogmatists are angry and defensive about being asked simple questions about their beliefs – even ones they’ve seen before the on-camera interview. …
Walsh demonstrated how widespread this dogma is – in schools, entertainment, social media and the medical world.
But Africans he interviewed are blissfully ignorant of all this and see it for the nonsense it is.
Thankfully, What Is a Woman? has some good folks who are speaking the truth about this false ideology, including Walsh, himself. https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/what-is-a-woman-matt-walsh-uses-humor-pathos-and-truth-to-expose-lies-and-harms-of-gender-ideology/
Many in modern society want to pretend that the LGBTQ+ agenda is good. It is not. It is based on many lies.
Last year, my wife and I watched Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman?
Matt Walsh asked various educated and less-educated American people what is a woman, and almost none of them would answer the question.
The females who did not appear highly educated seemed to hedge answers in what could be called “political correctness.”
Most of the highly educated got offended with Matt Walsh, considered his professing a desire for “truth” was offensive, etc.
Most of them displayed hate and vitriol that he would dare think knowing what a woman was had any importance as they sided with the idea that one can be any gender or gender combination they want.
Many of the so-called educated cut short their interviews with him.’
In his documentary, Matt Walsh repeatedly tried to get a professor of gender studies to define what a woman was without using the word woman, and he never did so.
That professor and others were highly offended that someone believed in truth and thought that males are males and females are females.
Later in the documentary, Matt Walsh asked his wife, “What is a woman?” She said:
A woman is an adult female.
Of course, that is correct. It is also consistent with something that Jesus said:
4 … He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ (Matthew 19:14)
The Bible is clear that men and women are different. God warned that there would be those “who suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18). But the truth is still the truth.
The Bible also condemns males acting effeminate:
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, KJV)
Transgenderism is against scripture.
But the promoters of the LGBTQ+ agendas do not want the truth out.
YouTube censored and removed one of our videos warning against pushing the LGBTQ+ agenda on children.
Google and YouTube have shadow-banned the cogwriter.com website in order to reduce people from coming into contact with the biblically-based information it contains.
In the past we put together the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel related to transgender surgeries:
New Transgender Study
A new study on the side effects of transgender sex change surgeries was conducted by researchers at the University of Florida and the health non-profit Brooks Rehabilitation. The study found that 81% of those who had undergone sex change surgeries in the past five years reported experiencing pain simply from normal movement in the weeks and months that followed — and that many other side effects are manifesting themselves as well. How do Russia and the USA handle the transgender issue? What does the Bible say? What does science show? Does the Bible warn about children being oppressors and leaders causing people to err? Are God’s people supposed to, “Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins” (Isaiah 58:1)? Dr. Thiel and Steve Dupuie go over these topics.
Here is a link to our video: New Transgender Study. It was original removed by YouTube, but I appealed and we won that time.
Yes, many do not want to hear about truth, including many of the educated. The Apostle Paul prophesied that would be a feature in the last days:
1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7)
Of course, many ‘moderns’ want to act like there is no difference, but the Bible is clear that men and women are different. God warned that there would be those “who suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18). But the truth is still the truth.
The Bible warns against the rise of despisers of good in the last days:
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:20-21)
Woe to those that do such things.
Notice also the following:
4 May 2017
Researchers have revealed a breakthrough is how the sexes really differ from each other.
A groundbreaking genetic study pinponted 6500 genes that differ between men and women.
Experts say it could have a profound effect in the way we identify and treat everything from disease to fertility. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4475252/There-6-500-genetic-differences-men-women.html#ixzz4l2KCqvLW
May 7, 2017
A biological male can take hormones, surgically alter his body and identify as “female,” but the procedures still won’t make him a woman, according to new evidence found by Israeli researchers.
That’s because there are at least 6,500 genes that contain sex-specific instructions for males and females.
For the study by Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, professor Shmuel Pietrokovski and Dr. Moran Gershoni, both researchers from the institute’s Molecular Genetics Department, “looked closely at around 20,000 protein-coding genes, sorting them by sex and searching for differences in expression in each tissue. They eventually identified around 6,500 genes with activity that was biased toward one sex or the other in at least one tissue, adding to the already major biological differences between men and women.” …
The new findings are further evidence that biological males cannot simply “transition” into females and vice versa, argues Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel.
“This recent study from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science further proves that you cannot fool Mother Nature,” Staver said. “The saying, ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is best left to philosophy and not science. Gender confusion is mental, not physical or biological. God made male and female, and no amount of protestation will change the natural created order.”
Staver called the idea that a person can choose his or her gender “fiction.”
“These Israeli scientists identified over 6,500 genes with activity that was biased toward one sex or the other in at least one tissue,” he said. “That clearly validates the genetic differences between men and women.” http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/study-more-proof-a-man-can-never-become-a-woman/
The promotion of transgenderism is not good. The truth is that males and females are different and no amount of surgery or hormone therapy changes that.
Despite biblical warnings, many modern leaders are endorsing so-called homosexual and transgender “rights” and “same-sex marriage.” The Bible, however, warns about such leaders:
12…Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths. (Isaiah 3:12)
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed (Isaiah 9:16).
So, leaders that ignore what the Bible teaches are leading others toward destruction.
Sadly, a lot of people have accepted the nonsense that being a woman is a social construct, not a biological fact.
Sadly, many of the ‘educated’ that Matt Walsh spoke to falsely claimed that hormone therapy was safe and completely reversible (not true) and that males who claim to be females do not have a biological advantage against real females in sports (also not true), etc.
They also pushed the false notion that if parents do not allow their children with gender dysphoria to get mutilated that they would likely kill themselves–that is also not true.
The Continuing Church of God (CCOG)put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel which deals with the science, reality, suicide, and scriptures related to that the so-called transgendered:
Gender Confusion, Science, and Scripture
The British Medical Journal reports that there is an increase in “gender dysphoria in young people.” According to the Mayo Clinic, what is gender dysphoria? Is gender confusion physical or is there a psychological component associated with it? Does research suggest that most young people with it will grow out of it? Is what are called “gender-affirming treatments” the right answer? Has it been reported that Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare determined that the risks of puberty blockers and treatment with hormones “currently outweigh the possible benefits” for minors? Did researchers at the University of Florida find that 81% of those who had undergone sex change surgeries in the past five years reported experiencing pain simply from normal movement in the weeks and months that followed? What about the effects of gender altering surgeries on fertility and libido? Have researchers concluded that there are often psychological comorbidities strongly associated with gender confusion? Do studies show that “gender-reassignment” treatments reduces suicides? Do males who undergo surgerical genitalia removal have a highly increased suicide rate according to a peer-reviewed study published in The Journal of Urology? What are some of the side effect associated with “gender-reassignment” treatments? Does the Bible condone or condemn cross dressing? What did Jesus say about God making males and females? Can gender be determined by looking at XX and XY chromosomes? Are there 6500 genetic differences between males and females? Are there also differences between male and female brains that surgical and hormonal treatments do not change? Dr. Thiel and Steve Dupuie address these points.
Here is a link to our video: Gender Confusion, Science, and Scripture.
The truth is that transgender movement opposes both science and scripture.
We should pray for those who have gender confusion.
Most will grow out of it if they do not allow themselves to be drugged or mutilated.
Now, to more fully answer the question, “What is a Woman?”
- A woman is a person with a womb who is an adult female.
- A woman has xx chromosomes.
- Being a woman is not simply a social construct, but a biological fact.
It is good that the UK Supreme Court has seemingly accepted that, as well as the current US Department of Justice.
Hopefully, other government leaders will accept the truth on this.
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
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The Ten Commandments and the Early Church Did Jesus and the Early Church keep the ten commandments? What order were they in? Here are quotes from the Bible and early writings. A related sermon is titled: Christians and the Ten Commandments.
Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel Are the Americans, Canadians, English, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Saxon (non-Dutch) Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? What will happen to Jerusalem and the Jews in Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo-Saxon nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first? Here is a link to the Spanish version of this article: Anglo-América & las Tribus Perdidas de Israel. Information is also in the YouTube sermons titled Where are the Ten Lost Tribes? Why does it matter? and British are the Covenant People. A short YouTube of prophetic interest may be: Are Chinese threats against Australia for real?
Will the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Nations be Divided and Have People Taken as Slaves? Will the lands of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand be divided? What about Jerusalem? What does Bible prophecy teach? Are there non-biblical prophecies that support this idea? Who will divide those lands? Who will end up with the lands and the people? Here is a link to a video titled Will the USA and other Anglo-nations be Divided and Their People Made Slaves? Here is a related item in the Spanish language ¿Serán divididas las naciones anglosajonas?
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