{"id":7630,"date":"2026-02-26T20:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7630"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:54:47","slug":"scottish-government-bill-for-gender-court-case-totals-over-760000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/26\/scottish-government-bill-for-gender-court-case-totals-over-760000\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Government bill for gender court case totals over \u00a3760,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Scottish Government has spent over \u00a3760,000 in taxpayers&#8217; money after unsuccessfully defending a landmark legal challenge brought by the campaign group For Women Scotland. The dispute reached the UK Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled that the term &#8220;woman&#8221; in the Equality Act refers specifically to biological sex. Following the verdict, ministers were ordered to pay more than \u00a3540,000 to the group. Critics have slammed the expenditure as a waste of public funds, while the campaign group intends to use the recovered costs to fund further legal action regarding transgender policies in female prisons.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 10, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/scottish-government-scottish-government-court-of-session-first-minister-b2917532.html\">independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government has spent over \u00a3760,000 in taxpayers&#8217; money after unsuccessfully defending a landmark legal challenge brought by the campaign group For Women Scotland. The dispute reached the UK Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled that the term &#8220;woman&#8221; in the Equality Act refers specifically to biological sex. Following the verdict, ministers were ordered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7833,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions\/7833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}