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  1. 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

  2. Maya Forstater wins more than £100,000 in compensation from think-tank after she lost her job for believing that people cannot change their biological sex

    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...

  3. JK Rowling-backed petition for Government to make clear that ‘sex means biological sex, not sex as modified by gender recognition certificate’ in Equality Act will be considered for debate in Parliament

    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...

  4. JK Rowling endorses petition to make clear that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex

    8th March 2023 — View PDF

  5. Petition to protect biological sex in law reaches 85,000 signatures in time for International Women’s Day

    7th March 2023 — View PDF

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. Sex and the NHS constitution

    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...

  12. Sex Matters is a charity!

    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...

  13. Sex Matters charity

    Page — From 3rd April 2024, Sex Matters is a charity.

  14. 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,...

  15. 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...

  16. Sex and the law in the UK

    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) 

  17. Statement on the UK government’s new guidance on sex and gender in schools

    19th December 2023 — Maya Forstater of Sex Matters

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. Guidance for service providers on single-sex services

    14th November 2023 — In the light of the For Women Scotland judgment.

  21. 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...

  22. Sex Matters to intervene in landmark For Women Scotland case on meaning of sex in the Equality Act

    2nd October 2023 — View PDF

  23. 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...

  24. Thousands of English schools in danger of breaking the law on sex and gender: experts call for new UK government guidance to be aligned with the law

    5th September 2023 — View PDF

  25. Sex Matters in the media

    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...

  26. FAQs – sex and gender

    Page — We explain in clear language what’s meant by “sex”, “gender”, “trans”, “intersex”, “gender dysphoria”, “gender-affirming care” and other related terms.

  27. Sex Matters visits Edinburgh to talk to SMPs – and to party!

    14th June 2023 — View PDF

  28. 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...

  29. 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...

  30. 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...

  31. 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.

  32. Campaign – sex in the Equality Act

    Page — Answers to frequently asked questions about our campaign to clarify sex in the Equality Act 2010.