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Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
Collective formed in 2018 of three women with backgrounds in policy-making, research and communications: Dr Kath Murray, Dr Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie. Produces blogs, briefings and submissions to government consultations on issues pertaining to sex-based rights. Seeks to improve policy-making and lawmaking, at both the Scottish level...
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DBS checks and identity verification: safeguarding loopholes created by changes of identity
An analysis by Keep Prisons Single Sex of the exceptional privacy rights given to those who change their gender as well as their identity.
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Safeguarding our Schools – Scotland
Grassroots volunteer organisation of parents, teachers, education professionals and others from a wide range of backgrounds, concerned that schools are being advised to use policies regarding gender identity that are based on misleading or inaccurate information. Informs decision-makers. Provides resources for parents and education professionals. Empowers parents, carers, teachers and...
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Transgenderism in Schools: Reconstructing Professional Responses to Transgenderism in Educational Settings
Rather than making use of longstanding legal frameworks to facilitate the inclusion of transgender children, schools and children’s services are instead adopting the woke policies promoted by lobbying groups. This is to the detriment of all children, argues David Buck.
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Genspect
International alliance founded in 2021 by parents and clinicians seeking a rational approach to gender issues. Has expanded to include detransitioners, desisters and people unhappy with their own transition, as well as other professionals such as educators and journalists. Creates resources on gender issues and seeks a better approach...
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Keep Prisons Single Sex
Established in 2020 to campaign for the sex-based rights of women in prison to single-sex accommodation and same-sex searching. Also campaigns for data on offending to be recorded by sex throughout the criminal justice system. Spokesperson is Kate Coleman. Email: [email protected]
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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 are introducing “gender-neutral” phrases in an effort to be more inclusive.
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Legal Feminist
Collective of solicitors and barristers, some anonymous and some not. Blogs on subjects related to sex, gender and the law, offers expert commentary on legal developments and makes submissions to government consultations on proposals related to equality and human-rights law, setting out how those proposals will affect women. Email:...
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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 parents and professionals that produces resources to support parents who seek to challenge harmful school materials and policies that prioritise sex self-ID over the privacy, safety and dignity of all...
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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 2023 with the aim of establishing a clearer picture of how gender-related issues are handled in health, education and social work, challenging poor practice and offering a gender-critical alternative based...
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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 gender ideology on mental-health services, in particular for children with gender dysphoria. Work has focused on government proposals to ban “gender-identity conversion therapy” and on the Memorandum of Understanding on...
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Trans Widows Voices
A trans widow is a woman (usually heterosexual) whose male partner or husband believes that they have a gender identity other than “man” or who cross-dresses. Often women also report having experienced that their husband or partner has autogynephilia (AGP). Women in this situation report feeling as if their...
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Schools left to write own transgender rules “behind parents’ backs”
Louisa Clarence-Smith for The Telegraph Sex Matters board member Rebecca Bull is quoted in this article. Headteachers will continue to decide whether to tell guardians about a child changing their identity.
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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 policy on intimate assistance endangers 'extremely vulnerable girls'.
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‘I lost my job for saying males aren’t women. So I sued my employer’
Maya Forstater for Newsweek
On July 6, I won a claim I had first brought to a U.K. employment tribunal three years ago; that I was unfairly discriminated against by my employer, and subsequently denied employment, because of my personal views about sex and gender. -
Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision July 2022
A revision of the February 2021 edition.
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Forstater discrimination ruling will have profound effect
Rhona Darbyshire for The TImes
Trans people will still be protected against harassment, but must share that protection with those who disagree with them.
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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 maternal and child health, formed in 2021. Focused on the pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding concerns of women, advocating for woman-centered maternity care and sex-based language. Co-hosted A Woman’s Place is With...
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Maya Forstater was discriminated against over gender-critical views, tribunal rules
Yoana Cholteeva for People Management
A think tank researcher who lost her job after sharing views about trans people on social media was directly discriminated against, the latest tribunal has ruled. Following a series of tweets by Maya Forstater in 2019 suggesting that transgender women could not change... -
Maya Forstater wins belief discrimination case over gender-critical views
Personnel Today by Rob Moss
Maya Forstater, the woman who successfully appealed that her gender-critical views were protected as a philosophical belief last summer, has won her claim for direct discrimination and victimisation at the employment tribunal. -
Forstater v CGD Europe & Others: Maya Forstater succeeds in Employment Tribunal
Press release from Doyle Clayton, workplace lawyers.
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Maya Forstater: Warning on ‘quickie’ gender recognition certificates in Scotland
Jason Allardyce for The Sunday Times.
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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 the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy (MOU) on the practice of counselling and psychological therapy within the context of the United Kingdom.
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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, in November 2021
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How police forces in England and Wales record suspects’ sex in crime and incident reporting
Keep Prisons Single Sex reports that from its research it is clear that many police forces record suspects’ gender identity in lieu of sex registered at birth, frequently on the basis of self-identification.
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Single-sex protected: toilets, refuges, changing rooms can remain single-sex
Mercy Muroki and Patrick Christys talk to Maya Forstater of Sex Matters on To The Point about the 'harassment' she received from trans lobbyists.
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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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“We hardly get any of those here” – working with girls and women
Charlotte Weinberg writes for Probation Quarterly on whether changes to the perception, treatment and approaches to work with women and girls affected by the criminal justice system have occurred, to what extent and to what effect.
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By and for women
Aurora New Dawn runs services supporting victims of male violence. This research supports Aurora’s commitment to the use of ‘by and for women’ support.
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The Cass Review – independent review of gender identity services for children and young people: Interim report
Understanding the current landscape and the reasons why change is needed, in order to consider how to improve and develop the future clinical approach and service model.
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Should trans women be able to compete in female sport?
Ex-Team GB athlete Mara Yamauchi (a member of Sex Matters’ advisory group) interviewed by Andrew Doyle for GB News.
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Gender representation on public boards (Scotland) – opinion of the court, 18th February 2022
For Women Scotland sought judicial review of the Scottish Government’s decision to change the definition of “woman”, an appeal against the decision of the Lord Ordinary made on 23rd March 2021.