Healthcare
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Conversion Practices Bill targets parents
Draft bill threatens families, free speech and religious rights.
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The £360,000 helpline that didn’t ring
Why is the government claiming to have evidence that 90,000 people a year suffer conversion therapy when almost no...
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Conversion therapy: still not illegal – or still not happening?
“It is beholden on us all to ensure that this conversation is based on real facts.” Olivia Bailey, Minister for...
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Draft Conversion Practices Bill threatens parents with jail time
The government has published a draft bill to ban “conversion practices”. While there are improvements on previous drafts of...
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Draft Conversion Practices Bill – briefing
The government has published a draft bill (CP 1604) “to create new offences in relation to the carrying out...
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Baroness Cass is wrong about the puberty-blocker trial
It’s hard to overstate the importance and influence of the Cass Review, published in April 2024. It made global...
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Child gender medicine: CAN-SG conference
World experts gather to examine the evidence.
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Bethany Hutchison, day-surgery nurse
Requiring us to undress in front of a man at work felt like a violation of our dignity.
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Charlotte Hawkins, NHS paramedic
I was asked to update maternity materials and replace all the biological language with terms like ‘birthing people’. I...
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D, volunteer at a mental-health charity
Some women are terrified by the idea of sharing their mental-health struggles in front of a man. We were...
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Sandie Peggie, A&E nurse
I felt that having to share the female-only changing room with a man was a kind of sexual harassment,...
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One year later
The Supreme Court made the law clear. So why are we still waiting for the rights of women and...
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MPs debate the puberty-blocker trial
More than 146,000 people signed a parliamentary petition set up by James Esses calling on the government to cancel...
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Blocking puberty is a human-rights abuse – call off this drug trial now
Since the surprise announcement last November that a trial of puberty blockers had been approved by regulators, there has...
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Letter to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency about Professor George
Sex Matters wrote to Lawrence Tallon, chief executive, and Professor Anthony Harnden, chair, of the MHRA, to urge them...
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Why the puberty-blocker trial was paused
Insights from Dr Louise Irvine
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The puberty-blocker trial: paused but not yet stopped
The King’s College London “Pathways” clinical trial of puberty blockers has been paused because of safety and ethical concerns...
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Claimant’s statement of facts and grounds in R (Bayswater Support Group and others) v HRA and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Statement of facts and grounds by Bayswater Support Group, Keira Bell and James Esses in their application for judicial...
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Send the puberty-blocker trial back to the research ethics committee, Wes!
Last year, together with other groups, Sex Matters wrote to the secretary of state for health urging him to...
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Guidance released on “gender-questioning” children
The government has published an updated draft version of Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE). This is a regular...
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Reply from Secretary of State for Health on the puberty-blockers trial
Led by Rosie Duffield MP, a group of Parliamentarians wrote urgently to Wes Streeting MP on 15th December 2025...
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Sex-based rights in 2026: Maya and Fiona look ahead
9th January 2026
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Why gender medicine isn’t medicine
In October and November 2025 Helen Joyce toured Australia and New Zealand with the Coalition Advancing Scientific Care, Women's...
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Ponds and puberty blockers: Fiona and Helen discuss
19th December 2025
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The Levy Review of adult gender services
NHS England has published the Levy Review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England. This was an operational...
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Letter to Secretary of State for Health on puberty-blockers trial from cross-party MPs
Led by Rosie Duffield MP, a group of Parliamentarians wrote urgently to Wes Streeting MP urging him to stop...
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Sandie Peggie, Maria Kelly and puberty blockers: Fiona, Maya and Helen discuss
12th December 2025
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The disastrous puberty-blocker trial: Helen and Maya discuss
28th November 2025
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The puberty-blockers trial on trial
When puberty blockers were banned for use in gender medicine in the UK, an exception was included to allow...
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Letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Sex Matters wrote to the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP about the planned puberty-blocker trial for gender-questioning children.
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Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices
A report by the US Department of Health and Human Services. Links to: Foreword & Executive Summary; Full Report;...
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Letter to the CEO of NHS England and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Letter to Sir James Mackey, CEO of NHS England – copied to Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for...