Press cuttings archive
For press cuttings after 17th August 2023, see the weekly update of Sex Matters in the media on our Press page.
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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.” -
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. -
Elon Musk promises to foot legal bills of people fired for X posts
James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The Times
Maya Forstater of Sex Matters is quoted. -
“Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality” – My conversation with Helen Joyce
Richard Dawkins talks with Helen Joyce about "the gender delusion".
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Trans Activist Emotional Blackmail, Silencing Women, and Redefining Language, with Helen Joyce
US journalist Megyn Kelly interviews Sex Matters’ Helen Joyce for The Megyn Kelly Show.
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GP who gave puberty blockers to children nominated for award
James Beal for The Times
Helen Joyce of Sex Matters is quoted. -
Doctor who gave puberty blockers to children nominated for ITV-backed diversity award
Patrick Sawer for The Telegraph
Helen Joyce of Sex Matters is quoted. -
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.
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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
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‘A man having a baby suck his nipple is not breastfeeding’: Gender-critical campaigners slam trans woman activist for using a child as an ‘identity prop’ after she posted image of her breastfeeding on a bus
Rory Tingle and John Ely for Mail Online
Sex Matters’ Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce are both quoted. -
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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“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
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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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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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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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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.
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NHS Confederation says women have no right to know a healthcare worker’s sex: Helen Joyce interviewed
Helen Joyce interviewed by Ian Collins for TalkTV.
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NHS will not offer puberty blockers to children suffering from gender dysphoria
By Max Stephens and Alex Barton for The Telegraph.
Helen Joyce is quoted as director of the gender-critical group Sex Matters" -
Patients don’t have the right to know if their medics are transgender and may be guilty of discrimination if they ask to see another doctor – and those with dementia ‘should be challenged’ over discriminatory views, NHS warns
By Martin Beckford for Mail Online
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How Auntie excludes – why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender-critical feminists?
Cath Walton for The Critic
Walton asks why gender-critical feminists, and Sex Matters’ Helen Joyce in particular, are effectively blacklisted by the BBC, while morally dubious men are given a platform. -
Charity watchdog could investigate Oxfam over trans row cartoon
James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The TImes
Maya Forstater of Sex Matters is quoted from her interview on Times Radio. -
Campaigners reveal in new poll majority of Britons want trans ban in female spaces
Sarah O’Grady, Social Affairs Editor for the Daily Express
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023. -
Less than third of Britons want transwomen allowed in female-only spaces
James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The Times
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023. -
Fewer than a third of Brits think trans women should be allowed to use female changing rooms and three-quarters want them excluded from women’s sport
Ryan Hooper for the Daily Mail
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023.