Britain's first transgender judge has lodged an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the landmark Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.
Victoria McCloud is seeking a rehearing of the case as she claims the UK’s highest court undermined her Article 6 rights to a fair trial when it declined to hear evidence from her.
In April the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that ‘woman’ and ‘man’ refer to biological women and men in the context of the Equality act and that ‘the concept of sex is binary’.
Ms McCloud - who left her role as a judge last year - is seeking a review as she claims the Supreme Court refused permission for her to provide evidence on how its clarification of the law would affect trans people.
But women’s rights campaigners have dismissed the case as a ‘fantasy’ and say Ms McCloud should exhaust ‘all domestic legal remedies’ before appealing to the court in Strasbourg.
