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Woman who lost job after tweeting view on biological sex awarded £100,000
1st July 2023 — Miranda Bryant for The Guardian Award follows tribunal ruling that Maya Forstater was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs
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30th June 2023 — Daisy Graham-Brown for Mail Online Researcher's contract not renewed after voicing 'gender critical' beliefs in 2018. Yesterday tribunal ordered she should be paid £106,404 by her...
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10th March 2023 — Madeleine Ross for Mail Online A petition backed by JK Rowling calling for changes to be made to the Equality Act will be considered for...
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JK Rowling endorses petition to make clear that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex
8th March 2023 — View PDF
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7th March 2023 — View PDF
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Was the concept of biological sex really ended in 2004?
23rd December 2022 — This is the second in our series of posts about the Haldane judgment. Philip Larkin famously wrote that “Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three...
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Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles
21st December 2022 — BioEssays volume 45, issue2 – February 2023 Authors Wolfgang Goymann, Henrik Brumm and Peter M. Kappeler explain why denying biological sex is anthropocentric and promotes...
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Gay Men’s Network: Deception as to biological sex in cases of rape and serious sexual offences
30th November 2022 — Response to the Crown Prosecution Service’s consultation. "We urge a radical and comprehensive re-think reflecting the law in this area and properly weighing in the...
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Fighting for the principle of collecting data on biological sex
27th June 2021 — A guest post by MurrayBlackburnMackenzie. Scottish Parliament Public Petition: Call for signatures In early June MurrayBlackburnMackenzie (MBM) lodged a petition with the Scottish Parliament...
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Why we don’t want “biological” added before “sex” in the law
30th May 2023 — This is the first of a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th June about clarifying the Equality...
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1st May 2024 — Sex Matters welcomes the announcement by the Department for Health and Social Care that it is updating the NHS Constitution for England to reflect...
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5th April 2024 — This week the Charity Commission has approved our application to be registered as a charity. Sex Matters is now established as a charitable incorporated...
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Page — From 3rd April 2024, Sex Matters is a charity.
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Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG)
27th February 2024 — Group of clinicians concerned at established medical bodies’ and regulators’ uncritical support for experimental treatments for gender-confused and gender-distressed people. (For names of members,...
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Sex and the police: confusion over the law and state-sanctioned sexual assault
10th January 2024 — Update on the review into activism and impartiality in policing HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has today published a...
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31st December 2023 — Shadow report on the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention)
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Statement on the UK government’s new guidance on sex and gender in schools
19th December 2023 — Maya Forstater of Sex Matters
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Sex and the law at the end of 2023
15th December 2023 — This blogpost is based on a briefing sent to the Women and Equalities Committee in advance of its session with the Women...
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Will you support Sex Matters in 2024?
29th November 2023 — It has been a tumultuous year. Gender-critical campaigners in the UK have achieved major wins alongside setbacks and frustrations: Sex Matters is just one small organisation...
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Guidance for service providers on single-sex services
14th November 2023 — In the light of the For Women Scotland judgment.
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Sex Matters to intervene in For Women Scotland case
2nd October 2023 — Sex Matters has been given permission, as a human-rights organisation, to intervene in the For Women Scotland case being heard by the Court of...
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Sex Matters to intervene in landmark For Women Scotland case on meaning of sex in the Equality Act
2nd October 2023 — View PDF
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Sex and gender: a contemporary reader
18th September 2023 — Two directors of Sex Matters, Michael Biggs and Emma Hilton, have contributed chapters to Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader, an academic book just...
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5th September 2023 — View PDF
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Page — 7th September 2013 In the Sunday Telegraph, Edward Malnick reported on Maya and Helen’s recent letter to Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch, which...
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Page — We explain in clear language what’s meant by “sex”, “gender”, “trans”, “intersex”, “gender dysphoria”, “gender-affirming care” and other related terms.
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Sex Matters visits Edinburgh to talk to SMPs – and to party!
14th June 2023 — View PDF
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Sex in the Equality Act: the Westminster Hall debate – webinar
1st June 2023 — On 8th June 2023, Helen Joyce talked to academic Michael Foran and barrister Naomi Cunningham on about the upcoming Westminster Hall debate on clarifying...
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Why sex must mean sex across the Equality Act
1st June 2023 — This is the third in a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th June about clarifying the Equality...
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Why “sex” and “gender” mean the same thing in law
31st May 2023 — This is the second in a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th June about clarifying the Equality...
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Parkrun ‘self-ID’ lets biological male runners ‘smash women’s records’, Olympian claims
23rd May 2023 — Catherine Lough for The Telegraph An article prompted by what Mara Yamauchi, a member of Sex Matters' advisory group, has written.
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Campaign – sex in the Equality Act
Page — Answers to frequently asked questions about our campaign to clarify sex in the Equality Act 2010.