Freedom of speech
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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...
29th May 2026
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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...
11th November 2025
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Gender-critical belief discrimination – briefing
What “gender critical” beliefs are; how employees and others are protected from belief discrimination; and how employers should deal...
10th October 2025
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What happened at Sussex University?
What led the University of Sussex to adopt an unlawful policy that led the Office for Students to fine...
1st April 2025
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Kristie Higgs wins belief-discrimination case
Court of Appeal warns against discrimination based on unreasonable objections to social-media posts
12th February 2025
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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...
8th January 2025
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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...20th December 2024
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Answering questions about data protection
As part of our ongoing work on defending the female category in sport, we recently asked people to get...
4th November 2024
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Flying Flags and Ticking Boxes – what went wrong with EDI and how leaders can fix it
By Simon Fanshawe OBE and Matilda Gosling,
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...
12th September 2024
Being clear about our beliefs
Sex Matters was founded as an organisation based on human rights. We believe that the rule of law, and...
29th May 2024
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...
16th May 2024
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...
16th May 2024
Academic mobbing – what university management needs to know
Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, University of London, writes for Sex Matters on the...
15th May 2024
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...
20th April 2024
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...
20th April 2024
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...
5th April 2024
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...
23rd March 2024
“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...
22nd March 2024
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...
5th February 2024
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)...
5th February 2024
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...
5th February 2024
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.
1st February 2024
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...
24th November 2023
“Please, please make it stop.”
On 9th November we delivered a letter to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, calling on him to act to...
15th November 2023
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...
9th November 2023
Sex Matters welcomes review of police politicisation
The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman KC MP, has written to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Andy Cooke, to raise concerns...
2nd September 2023
Gender-critical website blocked on train wi-fi network
Kieran Gair for The Times
The Sex Matters site has been flagged up for ‘being linked to terrorism and hate’....7th August 2023
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