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and see also our case briefings.

Petition for judicial review of the failure by the Scottish Ministers to restore and protect the provision of single sex toilet facilities

After sending a letter before action and engaging with officials, we lodged the petition for judicial review.

3rd October 2025
Removing unlawful toilet policies from workplaces – briefing

A summary of the legal arguments, relevant to other service providers and employers in the public and private sectors....

2nd October 2025
Schools model policy – editable

UPDATED FOR 2025: Our whole-school model policy on sex-based rules and record-keeping, formatted as a Word document for schools...

26th August 2025
Letter to the National Library of Scotland

We are dismayed that the book The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht has been excluded from the National Library of...

13th August 2025
Sex-based rules and record-keeping – a whole-school model policy

UPDATED FOR 2025: This model policy specifies how a school records, communicates and uses data on the sex of...

25th July 2025
Letter to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women and Equalities Committee

We wrote to express our dismay at the questioning of Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson during her appointment hearing for the...

22nd July 2025
Ben Cooper KC’s analysis of FWS Supreme Court judgment – briefing for Parliamentarians

Five key points in a summary of the analysis by the lawyer who represented Sex Matters in our intervention...

17th July 2025
Template email to raise concerns about workplace toilets

This template email is designed to help you clearly and confidently raise concerns about workplace toilet policies: the removal...

11th July 2025
Template email to raise concerns about changing rooms and toilets

This template email is designed to help you clearly and confidently raise concerns about policies for changing-room, toilets and...

11th July 2025
Template email about proposed unisex changing rooms or toilets

This template email is designed to help you clearly and confidently raise concerns about policies to make changing-room or...

11th July 2025
Ben Cooper KC explains the implications of FWS

For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers: why the Supreme Court’s judgment does not remove, diminish or breach the...

7th July 2025
Unlawful policies for police searches – briefing for Parliamentarians

An overview, action so far, and next steps needed.

4th July 2025
Second letter before action to the Scottish Government

The Scottish Government replied to our letter before action, and we wrote again to ask it to take urgent...

4th July 2025
Reply from the Scottish Government

John Somers, Director of Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights for the Scottish government, responds to our letter before action...

28th June 2025
Response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s code of practice for service providers, associations and public bodies

Sex Matters’ response to the EHRC consultation seeking feedback on its updated code of practice for service providers,...

27th June 2025
Letter before claim on Kenwood Ladies’ Pond

On 17th June 2025, we sent a letter before claim to the City of London Corporation over its failure...

27th June 2025
Sex and digital identities – briefing for Parliamentarians

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 got royal assent on 19th June. Concerns had been raised that digital...

26th June 2025
Letter to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, June 2025

The Data (Use and Access) Act got royal assent on 19th June. We wrote to Peter Kyle MP to...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing – case study: Ursula Doyle

Case study to accompany the report on the costs and legal risks of discrimination against gender-critical staff and authors,...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing – case study: Sibyl Ruth

Case study to accompany the report on the costs and legal risks of discrimination against gender-critical staff and authors,...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing – case study: Rachel Rooney

Case study to accompany the report on the costs and legal risks of discrimination against gender-critical staff and authors,...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing – case study: Magi Gibson

Case study to accompany the report on the costs and legal risks of discrimination against gender-critical staff and authors,...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing – case study: Jenny Lindsay

Case study to accompany the report on the costs and legal risks of discrimination against gender-critical staff and authors,...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing – case study: Gillian Philip

Case study to accompany the report on the costs and legal risks of discrimination against gender-critical staff and authors, by...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing – summary report

The costs and legal risks of discrimination against gender-critical staff and authors, by Matilda Gosling for Sex Matters and...

25th June 2025
Everyday cancellation in publishing

By Matilda Gosling for Sex Matters and SEEN in Publishing

25th June 2025
Letter before action to the Scottish Government

A representative of the Scottish Government has said that no policy changes will be made in response to the...

18th June 2025
EHRC code of practice re sport – briefing for Parliamentarians

The vast majority of people of all ages and political persuasions agree that the women’s category in any sex-affected...

10th June 2025
Template HR email on policy changes

If you work in HR, or know someone who does, copy and paste to share this model email, which...

23rd May 2025
Article 8 and toilets – and other separate-sex facilities

An illustrated explanation of how human rights intersect with the Equality Act 2010 and the April 2025 Supreme Court...

22nd May 2025
YouGov / Sex Matters survey results, May 2025

Results of fieldwork on 8th–9th May 2025.
Letter to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

We wrote to Peter Kyle MP on 18th May 2025 to flag three key problems with the reassurances he...

19th May 2025

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