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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 Hennes 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.
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Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
The CCJS conducts research and analysis on crime, the process of criminalisation and the criminal justice system, and works to develop holistic, practical and sustainable solutions to the problem of crime in the UK and beyond. It has been working to encourage calm, respectful dialogue and discussion on the...
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Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage
This paper reviews how differences between males and females affect sporting performance and assess the evidence on testosterone suppression in removing the male performance advantage.
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Sex and the Equality Act
Julius Komorowski in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland looks at what ‘sex’ means in the Equality Act, how it interacts with the Gender Recognition Act, and the implications for provision of services.
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A Question of Consent
‘Single sex spaces are a question of consent’ is a website and blog by Maya Forstater focused on single-sex services.
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Trans policies in UK universities: some highlights
Kathleen Stock puts extracts from current official policies against the needs of the Education Reform Act 1988.
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Women’s Resource Centre report
Dr Louise Harvey-Golding and Dr Sue Robson’s 2019 research report is based on a survey and focus groups with English organisations providing services to women and girls. They explore the need for single-sex provision for women and girls and the difficulties providers face. .
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Evidence and data on transwomens’ offending rates
Submitted to the Women and Equalities Select Committee by Professor Rosa Freedman, Professor Kathleen Stock, and Professor Alice Sullivan, this covers the Swedish study referred to; attempts to rebut it; Ministry of Justice data on transgender prisoners in England and Wales; and analysis of that data.
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Pronouns: Compulsion and Controversy
This article published by the Legal Feminist collective explores the implications of employers insisting that employees put pronouns into their signature.
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Stonewall schools guidance: a critical review
Transgender Trend reviews all ten Stonewall schools guides from 2015 to 2020.
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The transition from sex to gender in English prisons: human rights and queer theory
By Michael Biggs. This paper analyses how the prison system in England and Wales transitioned from sex to gender, from the 1990s to the 2010s. It traces the succession of criteria for allocating males to women’s prisons: first genital surgery, then legal sex, and finally gender identity, and explains...
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision March 2020
March 2020 revision of the February 2018 edition.
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The dangerous denial of sex
Biologists Colin M. Wright and Emma N. Hilton (2020) Wall Street Journal argue that there are two sexes, and that transgender ideology harms women, gays – and especially feminine boys and masculine girls.
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision September 2019
September 2019 revision of the February 2018 edition.
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Dr Emma Hilton reviews the science supporting the IOC decision to let male-born transgender athletes into female competition
This is the video and transcript of the speech given by Dr Emma Hilton at the #WPUKFairPlay meeting in London on 10th July 2019. 21:21 video plus transcript
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Stonewall’s LGBT guidance is limiting the free speech of gender-critical academics
Kathleen Stock writes for Quillette about trans policies in universities and their impact on freedom of expression.
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Are academics freely able to criticise the idea of ‘gender identity’ in UK universities?
Kathleen Stock compiled testimonies from university employees for this article for Medium. Stories include failures to protect staff from student and public harassment; staff facing complaints for signing letters to newspapers about academic freedom; lost work; and rejected research. Many respondents feared professional consequences.
