Media coverage
Selected press, online and broadcast coverage
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Amnesty condemns JK Rowling | Helen Joyce on Free Speech Nation
Helen Joyce joins Josh Howie on Free Speech Nation to discuss Amnesty International UK's report, A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the...
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Waitrose rebrands ‘feminine care’ products after inclusivity complaint
“Only women and girls menstruate. That will never change… The retailer is changing a commonly understood term for period products to appease a... - Fiona McAnena
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Former UUP leader who backed conversion therapy ban says Alliance proposals go ‘significantly beyond’ original pledge
David Thompson for the News Letter referred to Sex Matters’ warning that the weak evidence underpinning the UK Conversion Practices Bill is no...
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Teachers won’t have to tell parents if child wants to change gender
“It is deeply concerning that it also says there is ‘no reason’ for schools to tell parents if their child raises gender-related issues... - Maya Forstater
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Schools won’t have to tell parents if child questions gender
“ clearly states that no school is permitted to record any child as the opposite sex or to allow any child... - Maya Forstater
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Bridget Phillipson’s final trans guidance will embolden ‘activist parents’ who want their children to transition, campaigners fear
“Given the potential for harmful physical and medical interventions such as breast-binding and unregulated hormone prescriptions sourced online, trans identification should always be... - Maya Forstater
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Health Secretary ‘uneasy’ over puberty blockers experiment on kids as MPs raise alarm over lack of support available to patients who detransition
“Mr Murray should differentiate himself from his predecessor Wes Streeting by listening to his conscience... He needs to call a halt to what... - Helen Joyce
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The transgender burlesque dancer tasked with shaping the future of the Girl Guides – and the zealots who STILL won’t accept them restricting membership to biological women
“Any honest consideration of whether Paula Southin is fit to be in a position of authority within Girlguiding, given these provocative materials, has... - Helen Joyce
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JK Rowling won’t be cancelled | Helen Joyce on Talk TV
Helen Joyce joins Mark Dolan on Talk TV to discuss Queen Camilla’s photo with JK Rowling, why attempts to cancel Rowling have failed...
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DPP Faces High Court Challenge From Sex Matters Over CPS Consent Guidance
Richard Sanders for Lawyer Monthly previewed our judicial review against the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for its unlawful guidance on sex by deception.... - Helen Joyce
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Victory for women’s sport at US Supreme Court | Helen Joyce on Talk TV
Helen Joyce joins Julia Hartley-Brewer to discuss the news that the US Supreme Court has ruled that state laws protecting sport for women...
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Labour claims of 75,000 conversion therapy victims ‘remarkably weak’
Daniel Martin for The Telegraph quoted analysis by Sex Matters showing that the cases presented by LGBT charity Galop to back its claim...
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Major maternity change announced after report on ‘heartbreaking’ NHS failures
“It’s a disgrace... someone decided to shoe-horn ‘birthing people’ into , presumably so as not to offend the... - Fiona McAnena
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Major maternity investigations spark backlash by referring to ‘birthing people’ and ‘birthing population’ rather than simply women
“Only women can become pregnant and give birth…They are mothers, not ‘birthing people’.” - Fiona McAnena
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JK Rowling meets the Queen | Maya Forstater on GB News
Maya Forstater joins Nana Akua on GB News to discuss Queen Camilla meeting with JK Rowling.
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NHS hospitals defy trans ruling
“The term ‘legal gender’ has no basis in law or medicine... NHS bosses think they can test the law by writing rules using... - Fiona McAnena
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Pro-trans messaging shoehorned into GCSE Spanish lessons
“Pearson strikes again with material that presents trans activism as virtuous to students.” - Helen Joyce
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Army chiefs ‘failing female soldiers’ over trans guidance
“Women who join the armed forces are not there to provide a gender-affirmation service to discontented male colleagues.” - Maya Forstater
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Parents ‘risk jail’ if they try to talk child out of trans treatment
“Opponents of the bill have long warned the new law could criminalise doctors, teachers and parents for having conversations with children about whether... - Maya Forstater
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Puberty blockers ‘at risk of being treated like sweeties’
“There is no evidence to support Baroness Cass’s claim that the trial would reduce children accessing unregulated drugs.” - Maya Forstater
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Children as young as 11 to be given puberty blockers in controversial trial as furious campaigners urge courts to completely shut down ‘unethical experiment’
“How can such a young child, who has probably been coached in trans ideology online, possibly consent to such serious harms?” - Helen Joyce
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NHS puberty blocker trial to go ahead for children as young as 11
“It is already clear that puberty blockers are no solution to childhood gender distress, and that they cause unacceptable harm.” - Helen Joyce
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Controversial NHS transgender teens puberty blocker trial given green light despite court challenge
“It appears that gender ideology has broken yet another institution.” - Helen Joyce
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Girls as young as 11 set to be handed puberty blockers
“The MHRA’s mission is supposedly to ‘put patients first’ in everything it does, and yet it is signing off on a trial that... - Helen Joyce
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Police should not strip search trans people of different sex, court told in action over PACE rules
Police Oracle covered our High Court challenge against NPCC and BTP guidance permitting opposite-sex strip-searches on the basis of “consent”.
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Police should not strip search trans people of different sex, court told
PA for Nation Cymru covered our High Court challenge against NPCC and BTP guidance permitting opposite-sex strip-searches on the basis of “consent”.
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Lush’s trans tiger display ‘glorifies’ mastectomies
“That thousands of girls and young women in the UK have had healthy breasts cut off in an effort to look like men... - Helen Joyce
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Green councillors ‘pushed lies to allow trans women in single-sex spaces’
“The claim that trans-identifying men don’t have to be excluded from women’s single-sex facilities by law is totally false.” - Fiona McAnena
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Police chiefs face legal challenge over trans guidance that lets biological men request strip-search by female officers
Sam Merriman for Daily Mail covered our judicial review of guidance from the National Police Chiefs’ Council that includes provision for female officers...
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NHS clinic withdraws cross-sex drugs for 78 children
“It should be obvious that messing with the healthy endocrine system of immature young people is not healthcare and should be stopped immediately.” - Fiona McAnena
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Police embroiled in fresh woke row over trans strip-search guidance
Oliver Partridge for GB News covered our judicial review of guidance from the National Police Chiefs’ Council that includes provision for female officers...
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MPs Josh Dean and Chris Hinchliff under fire for ‘pointless’ posturing on Equality Act guidance
“Among MPs’ many roles, one of the most important is as legislators. The ignorance of the law on view in this Early Day... - Helen Joyce