Media coverage • Page 2
Selected press, online and broadcast coverage
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Major banks STILL allowing transgender people to use women’s toilets despite court ruling
Oliver Partridge for GB News wrote on Sex Matters’ ‘Sex-based rights in the city’ report: “Banks including the Co-operative and NatWest, as well...
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Labour to introduce long-delayed ‘trans-inclusive’ ban on conversion therapy – despite concerns it could criminalise parents and doctors
“The sector’s seemingly universal decision to ignore this ruling alone reveals something depressing - despite warm words about supporting female employees … firms...
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GCSE pupils taught it is their civic duty not to offend anyone
“...suggesting that single sex toilets for women and men are a form of discrimination and inequality. Separate sex facilities are the exact opposite:...
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A criminal abuse of the law
Helen Joyce wrote for The Critic on her experience of both making crime reports and being the subject of them. She contrasts the...
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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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The decision-dodgers
Helen Joyce wrote for The Critic on how the fallout from the puberty-blocker trial shows what happens when politicians outsource policy choices that...
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Girl Guides switch to Scouts amid trans row
“Girlguiding is learning the hard way that there is no easy path back from pretending that men and boys could be female.”
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No excuse for ignoring the law | Maya Forstater on GB News
Maya Forstater joins Cameron Walker and Olivia Utley to talk about the one-year anniversary of the landmark For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling.
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Keir Starmer and Harriet Harman | Fiona McAnena on Talk TV
Fiona McAnena joins Kevin O'Sullivan to discuss Keir Starmer's appointment of Harriet Harman as Advisor on Women and Girls.
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Mixed-sex wards in NHS hospitals | Helen Joyce on LBC Radio
Helen Joyce joins Nick Ferrari on LBC to talk about Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying the government will introduce “trans-inclusive” spaces in NHS...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The woke NHS is obsessed with gender madness – we’re totally sick of it
Fiona McAnena wrote for the Daily Express on the fallout from nurse Jennifer Melle’s case against the NHS for “misgendering”, saying that the...
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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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“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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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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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 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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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”