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Workplace facilities factsheet

Employers that do not communicate and enforce clear policies about separate-sex facilities are likely to be in breach of...

Order in the case of R (Sex Matters) v City of London

Letter to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women and Equalities Committee

We wrote to the committees' chairs to say that the letter from Dr Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s...

Crime and Policing Bill: combatting exposure and the importance of single-sex spaces – briefing for peers

Large-print version of this briefing.

Information signs for single-sex services

Editable health and safety signs for women's, men's, and mixed-sex facilities.

Graphics explaining the law on single-sex services

A series of five downloadable graphics explain how to provide single-sex services with confidence.

Providing single-sex services with confidence

A guide for service providers – how to be confident in understanding and using the Equality Act to respect...

Gender-critical belief discrimination – briefing

What “gender critical” beliefs are; how employees and others are protected from belief discrimination; and how employers should deal...

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. 

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Unlawful policies for police searches – briefing for Parliamentarians

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

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...

Reply from the Scottish Government

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

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, associations...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

Everyday cancellation in publishing

By Matilda Gosling for Sex Matters and SEEN in Publishing