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What does the law say about “gender-questioning children” in schools?
An analysis of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s response to the Department for Education’s draft guidance for schools on gender-questioning children. See all our updates about this guidance.
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Response to Department for Education draft guidance for schools on gender-questioning children
Our final response (after our draft response) to the DfE’s draft guidance for consultation, published in December 2023. See all our updates about this guidance.
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Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill – briefing
This private member’s bill‘s second reading is on the House of Commons agenda for the morning of Friday 15th March 2024. This single-page briefing explains why it’s important.
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WPATH in the UK
A list of organisations in the UK influenced by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and lobby groups that have pushed its approach to gender medicine.
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The House of Lords debate on conversion therapy
On Friday 9th February 2024 Baroness Burt’s Private Member's Bill proposing a ban on "conversion therapy" was debated in the House of Lords. Twenty-nine peers spoke against it and fifteen in favour. Some important arguments were heard in Parliament for the first time.
21st February 2024
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Conversion therapy and the Cooper report – parliamentary briefing
See also our more detailed parliamentary briefing on conversion therapy.
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Conversion therapy: understanding the GALOP survey – parliamentary briefing
See also our more detailed parliamentary briefing on conversion therapy.
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Parliamentary briefing: conversion therapy
A detailed briefing on the issues. See also our short briefings on conversion therapy and the Cooper report and understanding the Galop survey.
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Letter to GANHRI, January 2024
We wrote to GANHRI, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Special Rapporteurs on violence against women and girls and on freedom of religion or belief, together with 38 civil society organisations and groups, to raise our concern that GANHRI’s “special review” process has been...
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Threats, reprisals and intimidation against the EHRC and those who stand up for sex-based rights in Britain
We prepared this detailed submission to accompany our letter to GANHRI (the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions) which was sent with 38 organisations and groups.
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Sex Matters’ draft response to the Department for Education consultation on guidance for schools on gender-questioning children
Draft version for feedback – read the DfE draft guidance for consultation.
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Letter to Network Rail
We wrote to Andrew Haines, CEO of Network Rail and its chair Sir Peter Hendy about the political display of flags at London Bridge Station and the offensive remarks made on Twitter by the chair of Network Rail’s LGBT+ network, Shane Andrew.
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Briefing on report Women’s services: a sector silenced
Large-print version of this briefing. For the Westminster meeting on 17th January 2024, a briefing on our report on the effects of gender-identity beliefs on the women’s sector.Read the report.Read the summary.
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Women’s services: a sector silenced
This report by Matilda Gosling and Sex Matters examines the effects of gender-identity beliefs on the women’s sector, based on interviews with leaders of organisations providing services to women who have experienced male violence.
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Women’s services: a sector silenced – summary report
A summary of our report examining the effects of gender-identity beliefs on the women’s sector, including the results of an independent poll in January 2024, asking if the British public supports the provision of female-only services for women. (Read the full report.)
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Letter to Chris Philp MP
We wrote to the Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire about the new policy of the National Police Chiefs’ Council that allows male officers who identify as women to undertake searches, including strip and intimate searches, of detainees of the opposite sex.
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Letter to World Health Organisation
We wrote to the director-general and chief scientist of the WHO about our concerns with the mandate and make-up of the Guideline Development Group on the health of trans and gender-diverse people.
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The Istanbul Convention and sex-based rights
A two-page summary of our shadow report Sex and the law in the UK. Read the full report.
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Sex and the law in the UK
Shadow report on the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention)
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Sex and the law in December 2023 – a briefing
Briefing from Sex Matters for a meeting of the Women and Equalities Committee on 13th December 2023
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Letter to Tim Davie, director-general of the BBC
Sex Matters’ chair wrote to suggest a process of strategic engagement for the BBC with experts and campaigners who promote mainstream, legally accurate and scientifically sound positions on sex and gender.
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Letter to Kishwer Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
On behalf of Sex Matters and Transgender Trend, we have written to express our concern about the first recommendation in the EHRC Equality and Human Rights Monitor report published this week.
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A letter to the Prime Minister, 9th November 2023
This pack contains our letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calling on him to act to defend gender-critical women from threats, violence and police harassment; the list of named signatories; and more than 3,000 comments added – it was signed by nearly 15,000 people.
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Letter to Ed Humpherson, head of the Office for Statistics Regulation
Our letter includes, from page 4, details of the inadequacies with the investigation of the quality of the 2021 census gender-identity data.
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Guidance for service providers on single-sex services
In the light of the For Women Scotland judgment.
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Response to NHS England consultation on Interim Clinical Policy: Puberty suppressing hormones for children and adolescents who have gender incongruence/dysphoria
Our response to this NHS consultation on an interim clinical policy, which closed on 1st November 2023
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Response to ONS consultation on the future of population and migration statistics in England and Wales
We call on the Office for National Statistics to make sure that data on sex is collected clearly and accurately for national statistics.
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Policy proposal: Legislation to ban modern conversion therapy
Any law to ban conversion therapy should seek to solve problems that exist today, not symbolically fight the battles of yesterday.
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Data matters
Advice on the questions you should ask when collecting personal data on sex and transgender identity. See also our template letter of complaint to send when you are concerned that an organisation is misusing your data by confusing sex and gender.
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Data protection complaint template letter
A template letter of complaint to send when you are concerned that an organisation is misusing your data by confusing sex and gender.
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Letter to the EHRC about its technical guidance on the Equality Act
Our letter to Kishwer Falkner and Marcial Boo flags the concerns raised in our post.
