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SNP's launches secret challenge to Supreme Court ruling

The Scottish National Party (SNP) is challenging the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of a woman despite insisting it accepts the decision. They seek a legal declaration that removing biological males identifying as transgender women from female prisons breaches human rights. For Women Scotland, which led the Supreme Court case, has initiated new legal action to declare guidance on single-sex spaces in Scottish prisons unlawful. Trina Budge, director of For Women Scotland, said: "Male murderers are still being held in the female prison estate." The move comes amid growing pressure on Bridget Phillipson, the UK women and equalities minister, to publish final guidance on how employers and public bodies should implement the Supreme Court ruling.

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