Do our politicians understand the supreme court’s gender ruling?

Baroness Kishwer Falkner is chair of the Women and Equalities Committee .

The meeting comes after the Supreme Court’s judgment in April that sex in the Equality Act 2010 meant biological sex.

Few MPs seemed to understand what the judgment actually meant, let alone what the law is.

Kishwer Falkner leaves the EHRC in November , as her (already extended) term ends.

The government kept her in post for another year to provide stability in leadership of the equalities regulator.

But the signs are that her preferred successor, Mary-Ann Stephenson , will receive no more civil a response from Owen ’s committee when they question her later in the year.

Baroness Falkner said the EHRC 's job was to interpret the law of the land.

She said it was the job of the body to be impartial.

But she said it would not result in a challenge to the highest court in the land to establish a new Supreme Court .