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Sex and gender reporting at the BBC is neither accurate nor impartial

Does sex matter at the BBC?

The national broadcaster’s mission is to provide “impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain”. It is obliged by its charter to be accurate and impartial. Accuracy is something you might expect of any news medium, but the BBC has...

Is Labour positioning itself to fix the mess in women’s sports?

On 23rd July The House magazine, a publication for MPs and peers, published an interview with the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy MP. In it, she said that sport governing bodies should make their own policies concerning trans...

Be more SEEN!

Last week Sex Matters hosted a meeting of people involved in the Sex Equality and Equity Networks (SEENs) and other sector and staff networks. The first SEEN was launched in October 2022 by a group of civil servants. It is a civil-service staff network...

The five tests that must be passed before any new law banning “conversion practices”

The government has announced in the King’s speech that a “draft bill will be brought forward to ban conversion practices”. In the briefing notes accompanying the King’s speech the government says: “There is genuine cross party and cross society consensus to see these practices...

EHRC issues guidance on discriminatory adverts

As the EHRC says, an advert is a notice or announcement – written or oral – promoting a job opportunity, product, service or event. Adverts might appear in newspapers or magazines, on the television or radio, in shop windows or emails or on a...

The new deal for working people and the definition of sex

We expect the government to take action in the first 100 days on its new deal for working people, and that we will see something about this in the King’s Speech on 17th July, when its immediate legislative programme is announced. Before the election...

Sex matters and the new government

The UK has a new prime minister and we now know there will be a new Labour government, with a significant majority in the House of Commons. The Labour Party has pledged to provide greater support for victims of violence against women and greater...

57% of UK support making the Equality Act clear. Only 20% support making it easier to change sex on birth certificates.

New poll finds voters want to make the Equality Act clear

As reported in the Telegraph, Daily Mail, Express and Sun today, voters across the political spectrum are more supportive of making the Equality Act clear than making it easier for people to change their birth certificates. Sex Matters commissioned a representative survey from an...

Does sex matter at the BBC?

The national broadcaster’s mission is to provide “impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain”....

25th July 2024
Is Labour positioning itself to fix the mess in women’s sports?

On 23rd July The House magazine, a publication for MPs and peers, published an interview with the new Secretary...

25th July 2024
Be more SEEN!

Last week Sex Matters hosted a meeting of people involved in the Sex Equality and Equity Networks (SEENs) and...

22nd July 2024
The five tests that must be passed before any new law banning “conversion practices”

The government has announced in the King’s speech that a “draft bill will be brought forward to ban conversion...

17th July 2024

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