Diversity and inclusion | What do HR professionals think about the Supreme Court's 'woman' ruling?

It dropped just before Easter, but the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a ‘woman’ has already been described as one of the most pivotal societal decisions of recent times.

But it’s also split people decisively into different camps – those who fervently believe that sex is biologically-based (as advocated by the ruling), and those who argue a trans women (a person designated male at birth), is also a woman because gender is not fixed.

Caught somewhere in the middle are HR professionals, as well as those that consult in the HR space, plus DEI experts and practitioners who have to make head nor tail of the ruling, and determine what they need to do.

So how is the ruling currently going down with the broad spectrum of HR professionals out there – the people with the unenviable task of having to interpret this ‘legal clarity’?