Single sex services • Page 3
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Ministers must not delay single-sex guidance
The Supreme Court ruling has made the law abundantly clear: sex-based rights must be protected, and Labour must not...
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Providing single-sex services with confidence
A guide for service providers – how to be confident in understanding and using the Equality Act to respect...
10th October 2025
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The Scottish Government has dropped its unlawful toilets policy
On 30th September, Sex Matters lodged a petition for judicial review of the failure by the Scottish Government to...
6th October 2025
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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
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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
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Hampstead ponds: we have filed our case!
Sex Matters has filed its claim to the High Court seeking permission for a judicial review of the decision...
23rd August 2025
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Virgin Active brings its changing rooms policy in line with the law after threat of legal action
Virgin Active has changed its changing-room policy to ensure that biological men (including those who identify as “transgender women”)...
15th August 2025
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EHRC consultation: justification
This is the fourth in a series of posts focusing in detail on individual parts of the Equality and...
29th July 2025
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The next EHRC chair must uphold the law
Sex Matters has written to two Parliamentary committees, the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women and Equalities...
23rd July 2025
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The Scottish Government has offered to meet us
We have received a letter from the Scottish Government’s Director of People, Dr Nicola Richards, offering a meeting. Richards...
15th July 2025
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“Women-only” doesn’t mean single sex says Corporation of London
There are three swimming ponds on Hampstead Heath, managed by the Corporation of London: a mixed pond, a men’s...
13th July 2025
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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
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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
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The Scottish Government has stopped hiding behind the EHRC: now it must act
The Scottish Government has stopped hiding behind the claim that it needs to wait for the Equality and Human...
4th July 2025
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EHRC consultation: asking about sex at birth
This is the second in a series of posts focusing in detail on individual parts of the Equality and...
4th July 2025
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The EHRC code of practice should stick to the law
This is the first in a series of posts focusing in detail on individual parts of the Equality and...
30th June 2025
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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
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Kenwood Ladies’ Pond: letter before action
Sex Matters has threatened the City of London with legal action if it doesn’t drop its gender self-ID policy...
27th June 2025
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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
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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
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The Scottish Government must be made to follow the law
Sex Matters has sent a letter before action to the Scottish Government, putting it on notice that we will...
18th June 2025
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A template for clear guidance
The single-sex and separate-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act should be straightforward and easy to apply. But they...
30th May 2025
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It’s time for a product recall
When businesses become aware that a product they have distributed poses a risk to users, they issue urgent and...
23rd May 2025
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Toilets and human rights
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has made clear an important implication of the Supreme Court ruling: when...
22nd May 2025
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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
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Poll shows public support for the Supreme Court decision
On 16th April the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling about the definition of a woman and sex in...
20th May 2025
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Do retailers need to provide single-sex toilets and changing rooms?
Patrick Overall explains the two key issues to consider for retailers whose policies don’t comply with the law after...
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Why are lawyers encouraging confusion about the law?
Following the For Women Scotland judgment there has been a flurry of interest by lawyers in providing complicated, confusing...
14th May 2025
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“The Supreme Court gender ruling had given us clarity. Now this Labour law will torpedo that”
Women’s rights campaigners warn that a Government bill could endanger vulnerable women by blurring the lines between sex and...
7th May 2025
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The truth about toilets
Following the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of the protected characteristic of sex, everyone wants to talk about...
24th April 2025
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What does the For Women Scotland judgment mean in practice?
The judgment handed down yesterday by the Supreme Court returns the Equality Act to clarity. Many organisations have fallen...
17th April 2025
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For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers
before Lord Reed, President Lord Hodge, Deputy President Lord Lloyd-Jones Lady Rose Lady Simler