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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.
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Gender critical beliefs, Maya Forstater’s case and trans rights
Daniel Barnett, barrister, for LBC
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A victory for female athletes everywhere
Doriane Lambelet Coleman explains the regulations about eligibility for the women’s category in international elite athletics competition; why they matter, and why there are so many athletes with a 46, XY DSD.
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BoysVsWomen
Website with animated charts showing times for male high-school athletes against those of female Olympians, plus track and field world records for male high-school athletes against the world’s best female athletes
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Supporting women in domestic and sexual violence services
Giving a voice to silenced women: evidence from professionals and survivors – a report by Fair Play For Women
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – February 2018 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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A vision for change – acceptance without exception for trans people 2017–2022
Produced by Stonewall’s Trans Advisory Group in February 2017.
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Religion or belief – is the law working?
A report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission exploring whether the equality and human rights legal framework sufficiently protects individuals with a religion or belief, while balancing the rights of others protected under the Equality Act 2010.
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision September 2015
September 2015 amendments to the 2013 edition.
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Transsexualism: frequently asked questions
Legal advice about employment from the Equal Opportunities Commission, June 2004
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Government policy concerning transsexual people
Department for Constitutional Affairs, December 2002
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Report of the interdepartmental working group on transexual people
Set up by the Home Secretary in April 1999 to consider, with particular reference to birth certificates, the need for appropriate legal measures to address the problems experienced by transsexual people, having due regard to scientific and societal developments, and measures undertaken in other countries to deal with this...
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A Guide to the Sex Discrimination (Gender reassignment) Regulations 1999
Department for Education and Employment, April 1999 This Guide provides guidance in relation to the application of the Regulations; and suggests some aspects of good practice for employers and employees on the issues which may be encountered in accommodating an individual for whom gender reassignment grounds exist in the...