Chris

Official: The Pope is Catholic. Night follows day. Bears **** in the woods.

The narrow consequences of the court declaring that a woman is exactly what almost everyone knows she is, is that the Scottish government can no longer appoint a load of transvestites to the boards of public bodies and claim it has achieved equality between men and women in representation. This behaviour was the reason the court case was brought in the first place.

However, in order to address problematic behaviour arising from a piece of legislation passed at Holyrood, he SC has had to look at UK equality legislation and make some useful judgments that will apply across the whole UK.