This is part of our Keep the women’s pond for women campaign
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We have increased our target to enable the next stage in this case! Thank you to everyone who donated to get us this far.
Women have been swimming in the pond on Hampstead Heath known as Kenwood Ladies’ Pond for nearly a hundred years. The City of London Corporation says that despite the Supreme Court ruling which says that sex means biology, it will still allow trans-identifying men to swim at the women’s pond, and it has run a rigged “consultation” to support this.
We were initially turned down for judicial review after the City Corporation tried to get away without having to defend the lawfulness of its policy. Now the Court of Appeal has overturned that judgment, recognising that “expert charities” like Sex Matters have standing to bring claims for judicial review and calling the City’s arguments in defence of its policy “brief and unpersuasive”.
We hope that the full hearing at the High Court will be before the end of the court term in July.