Submissions
including letters and consultation responses sent by Sex Matters
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Response to Department for Education consultation on national minimum standards for further education residential accommodation
Aims to align the standards with the position on residential accommodation being consulted on in the draft "Gender Questioning Children: non-statutory guidance for schools and colleges in England".
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Input to the report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
For the UN General Assembly on violence against women and girls in sport. Sent with Fair Play For Women's report How 'inclusion' in sport is harming women and girls.
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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An analysis of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s response to the Department for Education’s draft guidance for schools on gender-questioning children.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Response to Department for Education draft guidance for schools on gender-questioning children
Our final response (after our draft response) to the DfE’s draft guidance for consultation, published in December 2023.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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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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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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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Draft version for feedback – read the DfE draft guidance for consultation.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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Submission (written intervention)
Part of Sex Matters’ submission to the Judicial Review of the revised statutory guidance produced by the Scottish Ministers under Section 7 of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 – see also Authorities and Productions.
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Productions (second inventory of productions for the applicant)
Part of Sex Matters’ submission to the Judicial Review of the revised statutory guidance produced by the Scottish Ministers under Section 7 of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 – see also Submission and Authorities.
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Authorities (list of authorities for the applicant)
Part of Sex Matters’ submission to the Judicial Review of the revised statutory guidance produced by the Scottish Ministers under Section 7 of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 – see also Submission and Productions.
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Letter to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
Our 12th May 2023 letter, signed by 24 organisations, to Katharina Rose, Geneva Representative of GANHRI, asking it to support Great Britain and its national human-rights institution, the EHRC, in protecting everyone’s human rights and fostering dialogue between organisations that also respect rights.
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Letter to the College of Policing
Our detailed comments in response to to the consultation on the Authorised Professional Practice Recording and retention of non-crime hate incidents (APP) – the consultation draft is concerning.
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Response to IPSO consultation on guidance on reporting of sex and gender identity
In 2016 IPSO published Guidance on researching and reporting stories involving transgender individuals, with input only from trans lobby groups. In February 2023 it released a draft replacement for public consultation: Guidance on reporting of sex and gender identity. This is our response.
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Response to the Crown Prosecution Service’s consultation on deception as to sex
Sex Matters examines the proposed revision to the CPS’s legal guidance on Rape and Serious Sexual Offences, Chapter 6 – Consent
