Freedom of speech

Amnesty faces backlash

Amnesty International UK has hastily withdrawn its report A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK – which...

Sex, gender and free speech on campus

Trans ideology in British universities.

Small claims explained

Fighting bigotry in service provision

Fighting bigotry in service provision

Most of the high-profile gender-critical belief-discrimination cases to date have related to workplaces. But gender-critical belief discrimination is unlawful...

When will the BBC face up to the truth?

Last week a leaked dossier revealed the BBC’s biased reporting on the topic of sex and gender alongside concerns...

Gender-critical belief discrimination – briefing

What “gender critical” beliefs are; how employees and others are protected from belief discrimination; and how employers should deal...

What happened at Sussex University? 

What led the University of Sussex to adopt an unlawful policy that led the Office for Students to fine...

Kristie Higgs wins belief-discrimination case

Court of Appeal warns against discrimination based on unreasonable objections to social-media posts

Meta pledges to stop censoring gender-critical speech

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, is taking steps to protect free...

Helen Joyce on sex, gender identity and human rights

Helen Joyce is Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters.

These are edited versions of Helen’s talks at the conferences...

Answering questions about data protection

As part of our ongoing work on defending the female category in sport, we recently asked people to get...

Flying Flags and Ticking Boxes – what went wrong with EDI and how leaders can fix it

By Simon Fanshawe OBE and Matilda Gosling, Diversity by Design

Sex Matters’ written submissions re Higgs v Farmor’s School

Submission to the Meta Oversight Board

Sex Matters responded to the Meta Oversight Board's call for public comments on how the company handles complaints about...

Being clear about our beliefs

Sex Matters was founded as an organisation based on human rights. We believe that the rule of law, and...

The Jo Phoenix case should be a wake-up call for universities

In 2019 Professor Jo Phoenix became the target of a campaign of harassment from her colleagues at the Open...

Learning from the Jo Phoenix case

What happened at the Open University was not an isolated problem, and it was not just about Phoenix. This briefing...

Academic mobbing – what university management needs to know

Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City St George’s, University of London, writes for Sex Matters...

Legal opinion says promotion policy discriminates on basis of gender-critical beliefs

Earlier this year Sex Matters was approached by Dr John Armstrong, a reader in mathematics at King’s College London...

Counsel’s opinion in the matter of King’s College London academic promotions criteria

KCL’s promotion policy discriminates on the basis of gender-critical beliefs, and will also be likely to contravene the new...

A Woman’s Guide to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021

A brief guide to what the Act says, and other relevant legal references, explaining when you are entitled to...

“Misgendering” and the Scottish Hate Crime Act

On 1st April, the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act came into force. The law has generated headlines...

Why does the BBC keep getting sex and gender wrong?

In November 2023, BBC Woman’s Hour interviewed Steph Richards – a man who has publicly documented his harassment of...

“Be nice!” says the BBC’s director-general 

The director-general of the BBC, Tim Davie, appeared at the parliamentary select committee for culture, media and sport this...

Inclusion at Work Panel: report on improving workplace diversity and inclusion

A report from the independent Inclusion at Work Panel setting out how organisations can improve diversity and inclusion practices...

Letter to GANHRI, January 2024

We wrote to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), the Office of the High Commissioner for...

Threats, reprisals and intimidation against the EHRC and those who stand up for sex-based rights in Britain

We prepared this detailed submission to accompany our letter to GANHRI (the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions)...

GANHRI should stand up for the EHRC, not join in the abuse

Together with 38 groups defending sex-based rights, Sex Matters has written to GANHRI calling on it to stand up...

Draft response to Department for Education consultation on guidance for schools on gender-questioning children

Draft version for feedback – read the DfE draft guidance for consultation.

The escalating campaign of intimidation and violence against gender-critical women

After nearly 15,000 people signed our letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Joanna Cherry KC MP asked Laura Farris, Minister for...

“Please, please make it stop.”

On 9th November we delivered a letter to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, calling on him to act to...

Sex Matters delivers letter to Prime Minister

The Sex Matters team were joined by women’s rights activists to deliver the #DefendUs letter to 10 Downing Street...