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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...

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’....

Employee holding gender critical beliefs suffered harassment and employer failed to take reasonable steps to prevent it 

An analysis of Fahmy v Arts Council England by BDBF Solicitors – an employment law firm in the City...

Reality vs. Trans Ideology | Helen Joyce & Peter Boghossian

Peter and Helen discuss the definition of sex, why trans men should be allowed in women’s spaces, the tragedy...

Hero shot down by cancel culture: Soldier who saved countless lives in Afghanistan and trained medics for Ukraine is forced to quit the Army for agreeing that men can’t be women

Chris Pollard for the Mail on Sunday.

“Vague complaints about transphobia when they won’t tell you what that is.”

Richard Tice interviews Maya Forstater for Talk TV

A woman who lost her job for saying biological sex cannot be...

Maya Forstater: gender-critical campaigner wins £100,000

James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The Times

The gender-critical campaigner Maya Forstater has said that her £100,000 compensation award...

Woman who lost job after tweeting view on biological sex awarded £100,000

Miranda Bryant for The Guardian

Award follows tribunal ruling that Maya Forstater was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical...

Maya Forstater: Woman who lost her job over transgender views awarded £100k compensation

Sky News.

In 2021, Maya Forstater told Sky News that "girls grew up to be women, boys grew up to...

Maya Forstater: Woman gets payout for discrimination over trans tweets

A woman who lost out on a job after tweeting gender-critical views is to get a £100,000 payout after...

US Supreme Court deals setback to LGBT rights in web designer case

Andrew Chung for Reuters.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain...

Statement on the People’s History Museum

Sex Matters is a human-rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and policy. We were founded...

Maya Forstater wins more than £100,000 in compensation from think-tank after she lost her job for believing that people cannot change their biological sex

Daisy Graham-Brown for Mail Online

Researcher's contract not renewed after voicing 'gender critical' beliefs in 2018.

Yesterday tribunal ordered she should...

People’s History Museum issue apology after ‘gender critical’ group host boardroom meeting

Adam Maidment for the Manchester Evening News

The museum, located on Left Bank in Spinningfields, was the subject of...

Denise Fahmy v Arts Council England (case number 6000042/2022)

Press release from Didlaw, whose partner Elizabeth McGlone worked alongside Anya Palmer Counsel of Old Square Chambers to support...

Let the UN Special Rapporteur on VAWG deliver her mandate

Nearly 800 representatives of women’s-rights and human-rights organisations have sent a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council in...

Ms D Fahmy v Arts Council England: 6000042/2022

The Ideological Subversion of Biology

Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja for the Skeptical Inquirer.

Biology is not dead, but ideology is poisoning...

How Auntie excludes – why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender-critical feminists?

Cath Walton for The Critic

Walton asks why gender-critical feminists, and Sex Matters’ Helen Joyce in particular, are effectively blacklisted...

Charity watchdog could investigate Oxfam over trans row cartoon

James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The TImes

Maya Forstater of Sex Matters is quoted from her interview on Times...

Teacher who ‘misgendered’ pupil banned from profession

Louisa Clarence-Smith for The Telegraph

Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian who also spoke out against gay marriage, says he is 'devastated'...

Should a civil-service union promote harassment and discrimination?

At its annual conference starting on Tuesday 23rd May, PCS – Public and Commercial Services Union, the largest civil-service...

We call on GANHRI to protect civic space 

On 3rd May 2023 Stonewall and a group of organisations wrote to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights...

Response to Victor Madrigal-Borloz’s report on the UK

The UN Independent Expert Victor Madrigal-Borloz has issued an extraordinary report at the end of his ten-day mission to...

Letter to the College of Policing

Our detailed comments in response to to the consultation on the Authorised Professional Practice Recording and retention of non-crime...

Thank you, Kishwer Falkner

We have written to Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: Dear Kishwer Falkner Thank...

EDI contra science – the misuse of “ethics” in academic research

John Armstrong writes for The Crtitic about how he was asked to survey elite athletes on their views on...

Let Women Speak in New Zealand

“The only way to describe the trans activist mob at Auckland today is feral. Kellie-Jay Keen had to get...

IPSO’s updated guidance – our response

IPSO, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, has published draft Guidance on reporting of sex and gender identity to replace...

Response to IPSO consultation on guidance on reporting of sex and gender identity

In 2016 IPSO published Guidance on researching and reporting stories involving transgender individuals, with input only from trans lobby...

Maths teacher accused of misgendering pupil on religious grounds

Jessica Murray, Midlands correspondent for The Guardian

Maya Forstater gave evidence in support of Joshua Sutcliffe, the teacher,...

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