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Sex Matters is challenging BTP’s abusive strip-search policy
On 30th September British Transport Police (BTP) adopted a new searching policy that allows male officers who have gender-recognition certificates to search, including strip-search, female detainees. This follows the withdrawal of similar guidance by the National Police Chiefs’ Council. We think it is immoral and unlawful to trick or...
26th December 2024
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EHRC consults on statutory code of practice
Sex Matters is encouraging people to respond to the EHRC’s consultation on its revised Statutory Code of Practice for service providers (deadline Friday 3rd January). This covers the provision of single-sex services, sports and associations. Our action page explains how to respond. Confusion over these services is longstanding. Since...
20th December 2024
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Sex Matters’ advisory group is growing
Sex Matters’ work depends on many friends, some in the background and some with a public face. We launched our advisory group in January 2022 as a group of friends of the organisation with experience and expertise from different spheres. They show how widespread support is for the idea...
20th December 2024
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Sex Matters in 2024
It’s been our busiest and most productive year yet. Here’s what we have been doing in the last 12 months.
15th December 2024
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The government’s Data Bill: sleepwalking into self-ID?
The first day of the committee stage of Parliamentary scrutiny in the House of Lords on the government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill was on 3rd December 2024. Several peers moved and supported amendments to address the problem with unreliable sex data that Sex Matters has been raising. The...
5th December 2024
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For Women Scotland in the Supreme Court
What was the case about? For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers was heard by the Supreme Court on 26th and 27th November 2024. It concerned the effect of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 on the definition of “woman” and “man” for the purposes of the Equality Act...
3rd December 2024
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There’s still a fatal flaw in the government’s digital trust framework
The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes last week published the latest version of the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework (0.4). But it has still not recognised the problem of inaccurate sex data provided by the public authorities that underpin the system. The trust framework is a...
2nd December 2024