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Courage calls to courage: in conversation with Maya Forstater
At the Filia 2021 conference, Maya Forstater in an informal discussion with some of the women who have stood up for women's rights and against gender ideology: Stephanie Davies Arai with parents and schools, Joanna Cherry in parliament, Jenni Murray in the media, Laoise Uí Aodha de Brún in...
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Conversion therapy: the path to good law
Barrister Naomi Cunningham’s talk at the Middle Temple LGBTQ+ Forum Inaugural Annual Dinner
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Reindorf Review on “no platforming”
Akua Reindorf’s review for the University of Essex of why events with external speakers were cancelled.
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Guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport
September 2021 report based on the latest research, evidence and studies from the Sports Councils Equality Group, made up of the five Sports Councils responsible for supporting and investing in sport across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Female Sports Participation, Gender Identity and the British 2010 Equality Act
Cathy Devine’s manuscript copy of her paper in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, which investigates the impact on the inclusion of girls and women, of eligibility policies adopting ‘self-identification of gender’ guidelines for the inclusion of transgender people in sport, at participation rather than elite levels.
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Stats for gender
Genspect, an organisation which supports parents with gender-questioning kids, created this website because it believes that the public has a right to reliable data, intuitively categorised, and phrased in simple, jargon-free terms, and wants those who are questioning their gender to have full access to the facts.
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A woman’s place is not in prison
A transcript of Jo Phoenix’s presentation at a panel discussion organised by Woman’s Place UK and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
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The lesbians who feel pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women
Caroline Lowbridge asks: Is a lesbian transphobic if she does not want to have sex with trans women? Some lesbians say they are increasingly being pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners – then shunned and even threatened for speaking out. Several have spoken to the BBC,...
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Legal Feminist responds to FCA consultations
Legal Feminist applauds the intention behind the proposals, and is a strong proponent of data-driven policy-making, but felt that the way in which those intentions were to be reflected in rules and policy rendered the proposals at best ineffective and at worst dangerous.
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Sex Matters in Universities webinar
Jo Phoenix in conversation with Maya Forstater discussing the current situation in universities. For other Sex Matters webinars, see our YouTube channel.
19th October 2021
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‘Transitioning Teens’ and an irresponsible BBC
Suicide is a personal tragedy that leaves deep, life-long wounds upon families and friends. Journalists and public figures have been rightly condemned for treating the matter glibly or sensationally. And yet, even as experts warn that poor reporting on the issue could even contribute to ‘imitational suicides’, such advice appears to...
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Women’s prisons and male transgender prisoners
The ruling handed down in FDJ v SSJ in the High Court of Justice last week is further proof that UK law does not work for women. In dismissing the claim by FDJ, a woman prisoner who had suffered a sexual assault by a male prisoner while in a...
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Prejudging the transgender controversy?
Barrister Thomas Chacko of Policy Exchange, the UK’s leading think tank, explains why the Equal Treatment Bench Book needs urgent revision, based on the 2019 Employment Tribunal ruling in the Forstater case.
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Do I have to share my pronouns at work?
Woman’s Place UK advise on how to respond if you are asked to share you pronouns at work meetings, add them to email signatures or use them in titles for online meetings.
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Sex and the Office for National Statistics: a case study in policy capture
How did the ONS end up in court defending its guidance on a question which most people would deem self-explanatory? Alice Sullivan explains the legislative and political context around gender recognition, and the consequences for data collection.
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Maya Forstater: One’s sex can’t change. The story of my fight to ensure that this view, held by so many, is judged “worthy of respect”.
Maya Forstater for Conservative Home
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The Times view on the Maya Forstater verdict: Right to Think
Leading article in The Times
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Woman who lost job over transgender views wins appeal
Maya Forstater and Becky Cotterrill talk forSky News
A woman who lost her job after expressing views that sex cannot be changed and transgender women are "not women" has won an appeal against an employment tribunal.
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Woman sacked over gender-critical views wins court appeal
Becky Cotterill for Sky News
Maya Forstater who lost her job after expressing views that sex cannot be changed and transgender women are "not women" has won an appeal against an employment tribunal.
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Gender markers in passports: internal review of existing arrangements and possible future options
Report by HM Passport Office, 2014
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – February 2021 edition
Issued by the Judicial College, which says: “The ETBB aims to increase awareness and understanding of the different circumstances of people appearing in courts and tribunals. It helps enable effective communication and suggests steps which should increase participation by all parties.”
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Puberty blockers do not alleviate negative thoughts in children with gender dysphoria, finds study
Puberty blockers used to treat children aged 12 to 15 who have severe and persistent gender dysphoria had no significant effect on their psychological function, thoughts of self-harm, or body image, a study has found.
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Swedish cohort study on sex reassignment
Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in SwedenDhejne C, Lichtenstein P, Boman M, Johansson ALV, Långström N, et al. (2011) Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden. PLOS ONE 6(2): e16885.
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Sex not Gender
Alan Henness set up the sexnotgender.info website to counter the creeping replacement of the term sex with the term ‘gender’ in areas such as equality monitoring forms and diversity policies. The website includes details of 200 employers’ policies and the problems with them
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Gender self-declaration and women’s rights
Alessandra Asteriti and Rebecca Bull (2020) in the Modern Law Review analyse how self-identification will undermine women’s rights and lead to an increase in harms – a response to Professor Alex Sharpe’s paper arguing that it will not.
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Women count, count women: webinar
Keeping the category of sex mandatory and clear in the census was a campaigning priority of Woman’s Place UK from 2017. In October 2020 they hosted a webinar on the census with Alice Sullivan, Lisa Mackenzie, Jane Clare Jones and Selina Todd.
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Open letter on the census
On December 15 2019, 80 of the UK’s leading social scientists wrote an open letter, which was published in the Times, listing their concerns about letting census respondents list their self-identified gender.
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The political erasure of sex
Jane Clare Jones with Lucy MacKenzie (2020), Oxford University The first in a series, this report ‘Sex and the Census’ focuses on planned changes to the way that data on sex is collected in the UK census and outlines why collecting census data on males and females matters.
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Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
MurrayBlackburnMackenzie is an independent policy analysis collective. Its work on proposals for the 2021 UK census and related research has been cited in the Scottish Parliament and informed parliamentary questions and debate.
