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The obsession with trans inclusivity is making a mockery of equality
Kate Barker, CEO of the LGB Alliance, for The Telegraph.
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It’s wrong to lie to children: The Department of Education should learn this simple lesson
Stephanie Davies-Arai for The Critic.
Davies-Arai traces the history of the government's continually delayed transgender schools guidance, originally due to be published in March 2018. -
The NHS is accused of ‘trying to erase women’ as dozens of trusts sign up to Rainbow Badge scheme that marks down hospitals for using words like ‘mother’
Martin Beckford, policy editor for the Daily Mail
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What went wrong at the Open University?
Alice Sullivan for The Spectator.
Sullivan looks at the cases of Phoenix, Tucker and Gadow. -
Lib Dem activists say menstruation ‘not just a women’s issue’ as party to debate motion
Katie Harris, political reporter for the Express
Maya Forstater of Sex Matters is quoted. “Of course menstruation is solely a women's issue – only women have uteruses, and so only women can menstruate.” -
Woman who posed as boy and sexually assaulted teenager sentenced
Mark Brown & Helen Pidd for The Guardian
Georgia Bilham given 24-month community order and made to join sex offender register.
A jury at the week-long trial heard how Bilham created a male alter ego called George_132x on Snapchat to trick her accuser into believing she was a boy. -
Gender-critical website blocked on train wi-fi network
Kieran Gair for The Times
The Sex Matters site has been flagged up for ‘being linked to terrorism and hate’. Helen Joyce of Sex Matters is quoted. -
Clarity matters: how placating lobbyists obscures public understanding of sex and gender
MBM commissioned polling to see what people understand by the terms “transgender woman” and “trans man” tell them about a person’s sex. The findings show that there is substantial confusion.
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Employee holding gender critical beliefs suffered harassment and employer failed to take reasonable steps to prevent it
An analysis of Fahmy v Arts Council England by BDBF Solicitors – an employment law firm in the City of London specialising in high stakes and high value cases.
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Paused investigation into Baroness Falkner risks equalities watchdog ‘running adrift’
Edward Malnick for The Telegraph
EHRC head accused of discrimination in her efforts to rebalance quango’s approach to trans issues, with a greater emphasis on women’s rights.
Maya Forstater of Sex Matters is quoted. -
Why DfE dithering is to blame for the trans cat-fight
Helen Joyce for SchoolsWeek
Cat-identifying children are a distraction from the fact that schools have been left to teach fiction as fact in the absence of clear guidance. -
Maya Forstater hits out at ‘ideologically captured’ CPS for guidelines stating parents could be charged with domestic abuse for refusing to pay for their child’s transgender treatment or not using their preferred pronoun
Harry Howard for Mail Online
Maya Forstater is quoted at length. -
Reality vs. Trans Ideology | Helen Joyce & Peter Boghossian
Peter and Helen discuss the definition of sex, why trans men should be allowed in women’s spaces, the tragedy of the commons, fa’afafine, evolution, the “thought-terminating cliché,” the tribal fear of rejection, the cultivation of mental illness, why institutions are losing their North Stars, and much more.
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Hero shot down by cancel culture: Soldier who saved countless lives in Afghanistan and trained medics for Ukraine is forced to quit the Army for agreeing that men can’t be women
Chris Pollard for the Mail on Sunday.
Col Dr Kelvin Wright shared a Facebook post which prompted an angry backlash.
He has been forced to walk away after more than 14 years in the military. -
“Vague complaints about transphobia when they won’t tell you what that is.”
Richard Tice interviews Maya Forstater for Talk TV
A woman who lost her job for saying biological sex cannot be changed has been awarded £106,000 after an employment tribunal found she experienced discrimination and victimisation at work.
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Maya Forstater: gender-critical campaigner wins £100,000
James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The Times
The gender-critical campaigner Maya Forstater has said that her £100,000 compensation award is a warning to organisations about their attitude to sex-based rights. -
Woman who lost job after tweeting view on biological sex awarded £100,000
Miranda Bryant for The Guardian
Award follows tribunal ruling that Maya Forstater was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs -
Maya Forstater: Woman who lost her job over transgender views awarded £100k compensation
Sky News.
In 2021, Maya Forstater told Sky News that "girls grew up to be women, boys grew up to be men" - but some see her views as deeply transphobic. Now, she has been awarded compensation after losing her job in 2019. -
Maya Forstater: Woman gets payout for discrimination over trans tweets
A woman who lost out on a job after tweeting gender-critical views is to get a £100,000 payout after a decision from an employment tribunal.
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US Supreme Court deals setback to LGBT rights in web designer case
Andrew Chung for Reuters.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings, ruling in favour of a web designer who cited her Christian beliefs in challenging a Colorado anti-discrimination law. -
Maya Forstater wins more than £100,000 in compensation from think-tank after she lost her job for believing that people cannot change their biological sex
Daisy Graham-Brown for Mail Online
Researcher's contract not renewed after voicing 'gender critical' beliefs in 2018.
Yesterday tribunal ordered she should be paid £106,404 by her former employer. -
People’s History Museum issue apology after ‘gender critical’ group host boardroom meeting
Adam Maidment for the Manchester Evening News
The museum, located on Left Bank in Spinningfields, was the subject of a ‘hostile environment on social media’ after members of the Sex Matters group held a board meeting at the premises.
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Denise Fahmy v Arts Council England (case number 6000042/2022)
Press release from Didlaw, whose partner Elizabeth McGlone worked alongside Anya Palmer Counsel of Old Square Chambers to support Denise Fahmy in her harassment claim against Arts Council England (ACE).
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Rishi’s school rules: Schools to be banned from letting pupils change gender if their parents oppose it in new guidance from Rishi Sunak
Harry Cole and Natasha Clark for The Sun
The Sun reveals details allegedly leaked from government guidance for schools to be published this week.
Schools will be banned from letting children change their gender if their parents say no, and children who want to be called by another pronoun will... -
Saying no to school transition
Miriam Cates for The Critic
Social transition in schools is wrong, risky and unfair to children — and the government should ban it. Cates writes about the Department for Education’s draft “trans” guidance leaked to The Sun. -
The Ideological Subversion of Biology
Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja for the Skeptical Inquirer.
Biology is not dead, but ideology is poisoning it. The science that has brought us so much progress and understanding is endangered by political dogma strangling our essential tradition of open research and scientific communication. -
Maya Forstater on BBC 2 Politics Live
Maya Forstater is interviewed alongside Robin Moira White by presenter Jo Coburn for BBC 2's Politics Live.
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Georgia Bilham convicted after posing as man to seduce teenager
Peter Chappell for The Times
A woman who posed as a man to lure a short-sighted teenager into a relationship has been found guilty of sexual assault. -
Maya Forstater: Today’s Common debate on sex, gender and the Equality Act. The Government must clear up this mess.
Maya Forstater for Conservative Home
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Backlash over Oxfam’s trans guidance
Ben Ellery for The Times
Maya Forstater is quoted as a "women's campaigner" -
How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?
Sonia Sodha for The Guardian
Sex Matters’ chair Naomi Cunningham as quoted as a barrister specialising in discrimination law. -
NHS trans guidelines ‘put patients at risk of sexual assault by staff’
Sarah O'Grady for the Express with a comment by Maya Forstater, founder of Sex Matters.