Getting a few things straight about the Supreme Court judgement

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There's no way around this. A service is either single sex, or mixed sex. If it's mixed sex, it can't lawfully exclude some men because they are men, while admitting others who say they are women. If it's single sex, by definition it excludes all men.

The idea that a genuinely single-sex service might still face challenge as indirect discrimination on grounds of gender reassignment is, to coin a phrase, an obvious absurdity.

The slam-dunk justification would be: "We can't let you in, or we'd be a mixed-sex service. We'd lose the protection of whatever exception we're using, and we'd have to let all the other men in as well."

Let's get one other thing straight, while we're at it.

Women have been gaslit, bullied, threatened, dismissed, smeared, and sometimes physically attacked for standing up for these rights to ordinary, everyday privacy and dignity.

We have been told that even asking politely for these rights is "transphobic" and "not worthy of respect in a democratic society". Even the right to talk about such things at work has had to be bitterly fought for, in case after case in the employment tribunals.

Now the Supreme Court has authoritatively ruled that sex is real, and sometimes matters. In other words, what trans activists have tried to paint as a niche belief is now beyond doubt the law of the land.

That vindication leaves a great deal of anger in its wake. Anyone who instructs their lawyers to try to find a way of wiggling round the clear, unequivocal ruling of the Supreme Court can expect to have a fight on their hands.

For too long, a vocal, bullying minority has terrorised employers and service-providers into operating everything that should be single-sex on a "trans inclusive" basis, for fear of lawsuits.

Well, women fighting for their single-sex spaces now unequivocally have the law on their side.

So employers and service-providers will probably face lawsuits for a while whatever they do. If tempted to continue to permit men to violate the privacy of their female colleagues or fellow-customers, they should ask themselves a simple question.

"Do we feel lucky?"