Court ruling on ‘woman’ at odds with UK Equality Act aim, says ex-civil servant

‘Clear premise’ was to give trans and biological women same sex discrimination rights, says official who helped draft actA former civil servant who played a key role in drafting the Equality Act has said the supreme court’s ruling about the legal definition of a woman contradicted the act’s original intentions.Melanie Field, who oversaw its drafting and passage through Westminster in 2010, said the legislation was meant to give transgender people with gender recognition c