Healthcare • Page 5
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Caring about Dignity
A group of campaigners, carers, healthcare professionals and parents of children receiving care formed in 2023. Their aim is...
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NHS Confederation: leadership needed
“It is now — not the good times — where all that work you did on purpose and values...
26th August 2022
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Sex Matters writes to the NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation is the membership body for NHS services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Its members employ over...
24th August 2022
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Genspect
International alliance founded in 2021 by parents and clinicians seeking a rational approach to gender issues. Has expanded to...
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Norfolk hospitals introduce controversial “gender neutral” language
David Hannant for the Eastern Daily PressMaya Forstater is quoted in this article. Norfolk’s NHS hospitals have revealed they...
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Converting minds or bodies?
A riposte to the Good Law Project’s published advice on conversion therapy
16th August 2022
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Safe Schools Alliance
Focuses on children, specifically on safeguarding and the correct interpretation of the Equality Act. A group made up of...
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ScotPAG
A forum on gender dysphoria and gender ideology from the perspective of professionals in healthcare, education, and social work. Founded in...
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Thoughtful Therapists
Founded in 2021, a group of psychotherapists and counsellors who campaign to raise awareness of the negative impact of...
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Sex and the law – share our short guide
What does intersex mean? Are you allowed to mention someone’s sex if they don’t want you to? Has someone...
4th August 2022
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What Hilary Cass needs to tell schools: social transition is incompatible with safeguarding
On 28th July Dr Hilary Cass, the eminent paediatrician commissioned by the government to review paediatric gender-identity provision in...
29th July 2022
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Why do single-sex services matter?
In February 2022 Sex Matters undertook a survey to find out why single-sex services matter to people. The response...
19th July 2022
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Why single-sex services matter: privacy, dignity, safety and choice (full report)
Over the past few years many single-sex services and spaces have been changed to mixed sex, but few of...
18th July 2022
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Why single-sex services matter: privacy, dignity, safety and choice (key findings)
Over the past few years many single-sex services and spaces have been changed to mixed sex, but few of...
18th July 2022
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Why single-sex services matter: privacy, dignity, safety and choice (30-minute read)
Over the past few years many single-sex services and spaces have been changed to mixed sex, but few of...
18th July 2022
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JK Rowling backs parents told disabled daughter did not have right to female-only care
Louisa Clarence-Smith for The Telegraph Naomi Cunningham is quoted in this article. Harry Potter author warns that special school’s cross-gender...
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With Woman
Grassroots collective of female midwives, healthcare workers, allied professionals, academics, peer counsellors, advocates and volunteers in the field of...
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Groups defending sex-based rights
Overview of groups opposing sex self-ID in the UK, set up by individuals and collectives concerned by the failure...
1st July 2022
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What is conversion therapy?
Stella O’Malley of Genspect explains… “Gay conversion therapy” is the term given to attempts to change a person’s sexual...
15th June 2022
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Briefing for conversion therapy debate
The Government has decided to introduce a law banning “gay conversion therapy’”, but following consultation decided not to introduce...
11th June 2022
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“Conversion” therapy or just therapy?
On 23rd May 2022 an article appeared in the i news stating that Dr Az Hakeem was under investigation...
8th June 2022
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Briefing: “Conversion” therapy or just therapy?
There has been a media report that a young patient has complained to the General Medical Council about Dr...
23rd May 2022
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Reading University VC speaks up for academic freedom
On 25 April 2022 Dr Holly Lawford-Smith, of the University of Melbourne, gave a seminar at Reading University’s school...
23rd May 2022
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Through the Looking Glass: Making sense of the memorandum of understanding on conversion therapy
A two-part article by counsellor, supervisor, trainer and researcher Peter Jenkins, exploring the impact of trans activism channelled via...
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Scoping survey for government equalities office consultation on conversion therapy
Written by Thoughtful Therapists, a group of psychotherapists and counsellors working in the area of gender and gender dysphoria,...
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Has your MP fallen for a simple slogan?
Was your MP one of the ones who posed with a sign about banning conversion therapy? It is worth...
16th May 2022
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No ban on talk therapy for gender-distressed children in Queen’s Speech
It has been confirmed in the Queen’s Speech that the government intends to pursue a limited ban on “conversion...
11th May 2022
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What is behind the campaign to ban conversion therapy?
The campaign to ban “conversion therapy” has come out of nowhere, to suddenly dominate the priorities of organisations such...
4th May 2022
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Why ban talking therapy?
How a campaign to criminalise the most effective treatment for gender-distressed children made it from the margins to the...
3rd May 2022
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Separate and single-sex service providers: a guide on the Equality Act sex and gender reassignment exceptions
Advice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, released on 4th April 2022. Read our statement about it.
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The Cass Review’s interim report is out
The report shares initial conclusions that reflect many of the concerns raised by Sex Matters.
12th March 2022
