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NHS England training calls staff “transphobic” if they won’t share toilets with the opposite sex
Sex Matters has written to Amanda Pritchard, the chief executive of NHS England, to raise concerns about NHSE’s “mandatory and statutory” training on “Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights Skills”. The training is required for all its 6,500 staff. It presents disagreement with extreme gender ideology as “transphobia”. The...
28th October 2024
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Digital identity verification can end the gender wars
The government has unveiled its new Data Bill, which it says will unlock the power of data to grow the economy and improve people’s lives. The bill proposes new rules to support digital identity verification, which will make it easier for people to prove who they are when doing...
25th October 2024
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Sex Matters at the Battle of Ideas
The three Sex Matters directors, Fiona McAnena, Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce, all spoke at the Battle of Ideas on Saturday 19th October. This is what they said. Fiona McAnena: “Gender Wars: no end in sight?” I’m going to talk about three things: The first female driver of a...
25th October 2024
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Sex Matters’ intervention to the Supreme Court
Yesterday we lodged our intervention in the For Women Scotland appeal which is being heard in the UK Supreme Court on 26th to 27th November 2024. At the core of the case is the question of whether the meaning of “sex” (man or woman) in the Equality Act 2010...
23rd October 2024
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Cricket, where male feelings come first
A fudged decision that serves no one The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the highest-profile national governing body in UK sport to declare that, in effect, male feelings matter more than women’s safety and fairness. That is the implication of its new two-tier policy, which protects the...
21st October 2024
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WPATH evidence on trial
In the past three years, the US federal government has been strongly in favour of so-called “gender-affirmative” treatment, while over 20 US states have taken the opposite view, enacting laws banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery for gender-distressed children. In July 2023, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected...
21st October 2024
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UN special rapporteur calls for sex screening in women’s sport
The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, has published her report on violence against women and girls in sport. Together with her team, she took evidence in writing and in person, including meetings with Sex Matters and other groups in the UK. In her...
17th October 2024
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The standards crisis in Rape Crisis
The board of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) has decided that “the time is right for a change of leadership”. Mridul Wadhwa, the charismatic, sari-wearing transgender male who convinced it to appoint him “as a woman” into the top job, is out, and ERCC says it is dealing with...
22nd September 2024