🔥 Who Gets to Be a Woman Now?UK Supreme Court, Biological Policing & The Battle for Identity

“You don’t look bisexual.”
“You don’t act like a woman.”

Oh, honey. If I got a penny every time someone tried to define me by what I’m not, I’d have enough to buy a Gender Recognition Certificate and wipe my tears with it.

✊ Burn the Boxes

Growing up bisexual in Bangladesh was like being trapped in a tiny, rusted box — labeled, locked, and left to rot in shame. You don’t talk about desire unless it’s halal. You don’t love unless it’s between a man and a woman (preferably married, with chaperones). And if you’re not wearing your womanhood like an obedient veil, you’re a fitna—a threat to morality, to men, to religion, to society.

So when I read the UK Supreme Court’s 17 April 2025 ruling, declaring that “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer only to biological sex assigned at birth, it felt like déjà vu.

Another rusted box. This time, on British soil.

You flee religious fundamentalism hoping for freedom, and the law reminds you: freedom has terms and conditions.

🌈 Owning My Truth: Between the Qur’an and Queerness

I didn’t always have the words for what I was feeling. Bisexuality wasn’t even a concept I knew. What I knew was the burning crush on my English teacher, the jealousy when she hugged other girls, and the sheer panic when I thought God might send me to hell for it.

I prayed harder. Fasted more. Cried into my pillow every night because how could I, a “girl,” want both boys and girls?

Bangladesh doesn’t need conversion therapy. It just breaks you with shame, silence, and Sunday sermons.

I wore the costume of a “good woman” while dying inside. And when I finally escaped to the UK in 2022, I thought — maybe now, I get to be.

But this ruling? It’s a slap in the face. A reminder that even here, my identity can be debated like a football transfer.

⚖️ The Ruling: Biology vs Reality

On 17 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled:

Under the Equality Act 2010, the terms “woman” and “sex” refer only to biological sex assigned at birth.

The context? A Scottish law aimed at improving women’s representation on public boards included trans women with Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs). Feminist groups challenged it. The court sided with them.

What it means:

🛑 Trans women can be legally excluded from women-only spaces (changing rooms, shelters, healthcare).
🛑 No more access to all-women shortlists in politics or workplace diversity quotas.
🛑 Employment protections may weaken—trans women might not be able to claim equal pay as “women.”

Basically: your gender identity is irrelevant. What matters is your birth certificate.

🧨 Fighting the Stigma: Hypocrisy in Legal Drag

Let’s call it what it is.

This ruling isn’t about “protecting women.” It’s about controlling identity.
It’s about fear dressed up as feminism, weaponizing biology to enforce conformity.

The same people who scream “science” when defining women will ignore it when trans people bring forward real data on mental health, violence, and exclusion.
They say “we love everyone,” then legislate people out of existence.

It’s the same extremist energy I ran from in mosques and madrasas. Just better dressed, in court robes.

💥 Building My Empowerment: From Shame to Sharp Tongue

The UK didn’t hand me freedom on arrival. But it gave me a window.

I kissed women in public. I ditched shame like an itchy salwar kameez. I shouted YES, I’M QUEER in a Brighton rainstorm.

But rulings like this remind me: being visible is still a risk.
Empowerment isn’t a one-time event. It’s daily resistance. It’s me, writing this blog. It’s you, reading it. It’s us, refusing to shut up.

We’re told we’re confusing. We’re unnatural. We’re dangerous.
But baby, I’m not confused.
I’m just uncontrollable.

🏳️‍🌈 Conclusion: Our Identities Are Not Court Cases

To every queer person—especially those from conservative cultures—here’s what I want you to know:

You are valid. You are powerful. You are not a mistake.

This ruling may try to erase us from legal definitions, but it won