Other resources
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A Woman’s Guide to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021
A brief guide to what the Act says, and other relevant legal references, explaining when you are entitled to free legal advice, and ways to find it.
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SEEN Network for the Church of England
Formed in March 2024 to talk about how the Church of England endorses gender ideology – a harmful set of ideas with no history, evidence, science, or church doctrine to back it. Twitter: @SEENintheCoE
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SEEN in the City
Formed in 2023, SEEN in the City is a sex equality and equity network for financial-services professionals in the UK. Its principles are based on those of the Civil Service SEEN. Focuses on challenging sex discrimination and upholding rights and protections that relate to sex, recognising that this sometimes...
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Civil Service SEEN
Founded in 2022 as the first sex equality and equity network, Civil Service SEEN is a cross-government staff network committed to promoting and supporting sex equality and equity in the workplace. For UK civil servants and public-sector staff – from central and devolved government departments, agencies, and their associated...
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The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes
Tommy R. Lundberg, Ross Tucker, and Emma N. Hilton contributed equally to this study for the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.
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Inclusion at Work Panel: report on improving workplace diversity and inclusion
A report from the independent Inclusion at Work Panel setting out how organisations can improve diversity and inclusion practices through evidence.
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Hung out to dry – the impact of Welsh Government inaction on gender distressed children, their families and their schools
The impact of Welsh Government inaction on gender distressed children, their families and their schools, and a call for urgently needed clear, legally compliant guidance.
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Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG)
Group of clinicians concerned at established medical bodies’ and regulators’ uncritical support for experimental treatments for gender-confused and gender-distressed people. (For names of members, visit the website.) Advocates for clearer dialogue, better data collection, rigorous science and improved treatment options for gender dysphoria. Calls upon healthcare organisations to develop...
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Evidence-Based Social Work Alliance (EBSWA)
Coalition of practitioners, academics and students in the field of social work. Formed as a response to concerns about the impact of gender-identity theory in their field. Argues that social workers’ legal responsibilities to safeguard children are being put at risk by the lack of an evidence base for...
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How identity politics infiltrated the judiciary
Laurie Wastell writes for The Spectator about the Equal Treatment Bench Book, quoting Sex Matters.
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SEEN in HR
Formed in January 2024: a group of human resources professionals in both private and public-sector organisations who hold sex-realist and gender-critical beliefs. For anyone working in the range of disciplines across HR, in the public or private sector – who can also be members of other SEEN groups. Membership...
14th February 2024
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Single-sex toilets in schools
Are your daughter’s safety, dignity, health and privacy important at school? Single-sex toilets are being removed in schools despite the Equality Act’s legal protections. The WRN has a range of resources you can use to highlight this problem and talk to your child’s school.
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SEENinJournalism
Launched in March 2024 as a sex equality and equity network for reporters, columnists, investigative journalists, producers, editors and content-makers across platforms, who seek to restore accuracy and impartiality to the media coverage of sex and gender. Aims to: Committed to the protected belief that sex is binary and...
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Mixed sex toilets in Wales’ schools
New and refurbished school buildings across Wales are imposing mixed sex toilet facilities on children, reports Merched Cymru. These toilets are not compliant with the law, and present considerable problems, particularly for girls.
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Parliament SEEN
A sex equality and equity network for all working in Parliament committed to promoting and supporting sex equality and equity between men and women. Formed in February 2024. Twitter: @SEENinParli Email [email protected]
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How trans inclusion in sport is harming women and girls
The harms caused include unfair competition and demoralisation; losing out on records, rankings or on opportunities to participate; no consent or being coerced into a mixed-sex environment; a chilling climate of intimidation, fear and silencing; loss of privacy and dignity; and risks to women’s and girls’ physical safety
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Response to the Financial Conduct Authority’s consultation on Diversity and Inclusion
The response from SEEN in the City to the FCA’s proposals (CP23/20) raises serious concerns – particularly that there is no requirement for firms to collect sex data.
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State sanctioned sexual assault: women pay the price for policing beyond the law
In December 2021, the Police Chiefs' Council approved a policy that permitted officers to strip and even intimately search suspects of the opposite sex if they self-identified as the same “gender” as the person being searched.
The WRN confirmed that of the 47 forces consulted, 35 have implemented, or are... -
Police SEEN UK
UK policing’s national sex equality and equity network, launched in January 2024 with a mission to restore fairness, impartiality and trust to policing. For all serving police officers and police staff who hold lawful sex-realist and gender-critical beliefs. Aims to ensure that police forces return focus to the Peelian...
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SEEN in Sport
Network set up in April 2024 for all players, coaches, officials and parents who believe that women and girl’s sport should be for biological females only Female categories were instigated by governing bodies precisely because there is a biological difference between men and women, and fair play is only...
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SEEN in STEM
Formed in March 2024 for sex-realists in STEM who believe reality matters for continuing scientific and technological discoveries. For those who value truth, reason and material reality and recognise that the very foundation of how we make sense of the world, the scientific method, is being undermined. We cannot...
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Levelling the playing field – why women and girls matter in amateur sport
Why women and girls matter in amateur sport
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Performance of non-binary athletes in mass-participation running events
By John Armstrong, Alice Sullivan and George M Perry
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2023 Volume 9, Issue 4 -
The trans colonisation of women’s sports
Fiona McAnena explains how an obsessive, decades-long campaign ushered in a whole new era of sporting sexism.
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Best free speech practice
Linked with Alumni for Free Speech, this group of senior lawyers and academics has resources on best free speech practice for higher-education providers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Transgender competition in combat sports: Position statement of the Association of ringside physicians
Why the ARP does not support transgender athlete competition against cisgender athletes in combat sports – published in The Physician and Sportsmedicine, a peer-reviewed, sports-based medical journal for primary-care physicians.
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Football teams refuse to play after transgender player injures opponent
Oliver Brown for The Telegraph
Exclusive: Four sides in Sheffield women’s league boycotting games after transgender player accused of causing a season-ending injury -
‘Nonsense’ of gender data collected by public bodies set for review
Ben Riley-SMith, political editor for The Telegraph
The Tories are hardening their position on the importance of biological sex being recognised amid the debate about transgender rights. -
‘Feminist approach’ to cancer could save lives of 800,000 women a year
Andrew Gregory, health editor, The Guardian
Gender inequality and discrimination impede timely diagnoses and quality care for women around the world, says report. -
The government needs to put safeguarding first – it should not allow social transitioning in schools
Stephanie Davies-Arai for The Critic
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War-hero Army doctor disciplined for agreeing that men can’t be women is cleared of wrong-doing by an official inquiry
Chris Pollard for the Mail on Sunday
Dr Kelvin Wright received a complaint from a junior officer after sharing a post by Helen Joyce of Sex Matters. The war-hero doctor has been cleared of wrongdoing by an official inquiry.