Media coverage — Category: Campaigns
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Hampstead Heath spends £1m on ‘privacy’ upgrades after letting trans swimmers in women’s pond
“Despite the fact that the Equality Act and the Supreme Court expressly recognise that single-sex services are legitimate and lawful, the City of...
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Hampstead Heath ponds to stay trans-inclusive
Ben Lynch broke the news that City of London councillors have voted not to change the policy of allowing trans-identifying men to access...
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City of London Corporation officers’ report recommends keeping trans-inclusive policy for swimming ponds
The judgment meanwhile led gender-critical campaign group Sex Matters to seek a judicial review challenge against...
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Pond Row Deepens as Chiefs Back Trans Access
“Users will be told ‘They should not challenge other users regarding their sex or gender’ even if this means women and girls being...
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London beauty spot set to keep ‘trans-inclusive’ swimming ponds – despite High Court ruling
“The City of London is proposing to continue allowing fully intact males into the women's bathing pond, including changing rooms and showers which...
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Hampstead Heath bathing ponds should remain ‘trans-inclusive’, bosses say
“Dismissing the negative impact on women and girls, the Corporation says that staff should not be concerned about the ‘perceived characteristics of users’...
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Keep Hampstead ponds access as is, body recommends
“This proposed policy is simply unlawful. It is operating as if Hampstead Heath is an enclave that is outside of the law.”
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Labour’s shameful betrayal of women: Single-sex space ruling is STILL being ignored by hundreds of public bodies… because ministers let them
“The failure of public bodies to adopt policies based on biological sex has caused untold harm to women and girls. Nobody – including...
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Keir Starmer accused of treating women’s rights as ‘negotiable’ as Government continues to delay rules on single-sex spaces
“Women whose appearance has been altered through hormones and surgery to look like men, many of whom are young and vulnerable, need to...
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EHRC code expected in May | Maya Forstater on Talk TV
Maya Forstater joins Ian Collins on Talk TV to discuss the announcement that Bridget Phillipson will lay the updated EHRC code of practice...
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Tory councils ordered to enforce single-sex spaces
Poll after poll shows how deeply unpopular gender ideology is among voters across the political spectrum, so “why are these councils wasting time...
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Government update on EHRC code | Maya Forstater on Talk TV
Maya Forstater joins Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk TV to discuss the announcement that Bridget Phillipson will lay the updated EHRC code of practice...
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“Women are sick of waiting for this guidance” | Fiona McAnena on Times Radio
Fiona McAnena joins Carole Walker on Times Radio to discuss the announcement that Bridget Phillipson will lay the updated EHRC code of practice...
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Phillipson delays trans guidance until after elections
“The government has still not brought its own policies into line with the law. Whitehall must withdraw their own unlawful policies”.
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Single-sex space guidance for organisations to be published after May elections
“It’s extraordinary that a year after the Supreme Court judgment... the government has found another excuse for delaying the guidance”.
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Bridget Phillipson accused of using upcoming elections as ‘excuse’ for failing to publish long-awaited guidance on single-sex services a year after landmark Supreme Court ruling
“It’s extraordinary that a year after the Supreme Court judgment, and seven months after the independent regulator first submitted its code of practice,...
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EHRC updates guidance on how to apply supreme court ruling on gender
“The statement that the government has ‘always supported the protection of single-sex spaces’ is a slap in the face to women and girls...
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“It takes courage to stand up for women and girls” | Maya Forstater on GB News
Maya Forstater joins Nana Akua on GB News to discuss Baroness Kishwer Falkner’s latest criticism of Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and...
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Phillipson ‘refuses to meet’ women who secured Supreme Court trans ruling
“We are still waiting for Government departments, local authorities, NHS bodies, regulators and publicly funded organisations to bring their policies in line with...
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Transgender women dart players to be banned from female tournaments, says sport’s regulator, in a blow for six-time champion Noa-Lynn van Leuven
“Darts is a male-dominated world, played in pubs and clubs, and the top darts players are all men. Men's physical advantages in darts...
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Transgender women banned from women’s PDC darts
The Darts Regulation Authority’s report by our chair Dr Emma Hilton finds “multiple, small-magnitude sex differences accumulate to generate male advantage over females...
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Transgender players to be banned from women’s darts events
“The Darts Regulation Authority had followed the old, unfair IOC policy, so it’s great to see this rapid return to fairness for women...
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Court upholds EHRC guidance on single-sex toilets in the workplace
The Times reported on the court ruling upholding the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance on single-sex facilities following a legal challenge...
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The fallout and key questions from the IOC’s biological female decision
“The IOC policy is called 'Protecting the Female Category', and that is what every sport governing body needs to do now”
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Civil servants back down on plans to quiz people if they are transgender at next census
“Ideology should have no place in this exercise. It should ask about sex, male or female, and instruct respondents to answer honestly.”
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Transgender women athletes banned from female events at Olympics by IOC
“We wholeheartedly welcome the new IOC guidelines that secure a safe and fair female category. SRY screening is a simple, non-invasive, once-in-a-lifetime check...
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Olympic women’s sport limited to biological females
“Males never should have been allowed into the women's category, whether they're beginners or elite, young or old."
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International Olympic Committee’s gender policy divides opinion as supporters, critics clash
“We know that three women were cheated of medals in the Rio Olympics... it seems a shame that that cannot be put right...
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Olympics announces transgender ban in all women’s sport
“It’s not kind or inclusive to deny fair, safe sport to women and girls. The female category must be exactly that, male-free, wherever...
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King Charles’ youth charity cancelled boxing course for disadvantaged girls instead of banning biological males after parents raised safety concerns
”It ‘shouldn’t have taken a Supreme Court judgment’ to tell the King’s Trust that it should not allow biological males ‘to punch women...
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Legal challenge over Hampstead ponds trans rules to continue
“This case will have implications for single-sex provision all over the country. A ruling in our favour would demonstrate that failing to comply...
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Hampstead Ponds judicial review going ahead | BBC London News
Sex Matters has won its appeal to overturn the decision by the High Court in February blocking our legal challenge against the City...