By Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen (Co-Chair of the Assembly of Reform Rabbis and Cantors)
and Rabbi Anna Wolfson (Co-Chair of the Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors)

This week’s ruling by Britain’s Supreme Court on biological sex impacts real people. Trans people are not theoretical case studies. They are our friends, congregants, colleagues and family members.

Our rabbinic and cantorial colleagues are reporting that members have already been in contact, worried for their safety.

It is vital that our Jewish communities remain safe and inclusive spaces and continue to support our trans and queer members, who will now be at greater risk of discrimination, harm, mental health challenges and suicide.

We reject all notions that trans rights are anything other than human rights.

This ruling not only affects our transgender members and their families and friends, it impacts all of us. None of us are free until all of us are free.

• This statement was originally given to The Jewish News.