The U.K. Supreme Court is poised to rule Wednesday in a legal challenge focusing on the definition of a woman in a long-running dispute between a women’s rights group and the Scottish government. Five judges at Britain's highest court are scheduled to rule whether a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female

The UK's highest court ruled that the definition of a woman referred to "biological sex", but it said trans people would not be disadvantaged by its landmark decision.

The United Kingdom’s highest court on Wednesday announced that transgender women do not fit the legal definition of “woman” that’s laid out in a major nondiscrimination law. Judges unanimously agreed that the term “woman” in the Equality Act of 2010 refers to biological women and that the term “sex” refers to biological sex.