Sport
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Getting back on track: a new report
How UK law provides for separate sport for women and girls.
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Sex matters in sport
Sport and physical recreation are one of the most obvious places where women and girls need dedicated provision and...
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Enabling and protecting sport for women and girls
On 4th June 2026, Sex Matters launched its latest report on sport: Getting back on track: Using the Equality...
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Getting back on track
Using the Equality Act to enable and protect sport for women and girls
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Sport and the Law
The Supreme Court ruling in April 2025 clarified the existing law so it is clear that such policies are...
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Hampstead ponds – the City of London says it is sticking with “trans inclusion”
The City of London Corporation’s executive team has published its report on the future of the Hampstead Heath bathing...
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Cerys Vaughan, football player
The suspension had an effect on my education because I was doing PE for my A levels. I had...
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Lynne Pinches, professional pool player
This isn’t about hating anyone. It’s about fairness. Men have physical advantages over women, and no amount of practice...
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Miranda Newsom, gym-goer
When I complained about a man in the women’s changing room at my gym, I discovered that managers had...
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Natalie, amateur footballer
Because of a trans-inclusive policy, we were forced to tolerate behaviour from a man that we never would have...
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S, swimmer at Hampstead Ladies’ Pond
The man stood and stared at me in a demeaning, aggressive way as I was showering. I had no...
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Sex matters in local elections
On Thursday 7th May 2026, voters across Scotland, Wales and England will head to the polls in a major...
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One year later
The Supreme Court made the law clear. So why are we still waiting for the rights of women and...
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IOC protects female category
International Olympic Committee’s new policy examined
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Women-only sport goes to High Court
Man appeals against exclusion from women’s pool tournament
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Sex Matters poll results March 2026
JL Partners asked a nationally representative sample of 1,500 UK adults thirteen questions about single-sex toilets and changing rooms,...
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Sport, sex and equality with Mara Yamauchi
Olympics, Parkrun – and fairness for women and girls
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Brief of 24 philosophers including Professor Jon Pike as amici curiae, US Supreme Court
For The Governor of Idaho et al v Lindsay Hecox et al and West Virginia et al v BPJ...
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Brief of Sex Matters as amicus curiae, US Supreme Court
For The Governor of Idaho et al v Lindsay Hecox et al and West Virginia et al v BPJ in support...
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Brief of Emma Hilton PhD and the International Consortium on Female Sport as amici curiae, US Supreme Court
For The Governor of Idaho et al v Lindsay Hecox et al and West Virginia et al v BPJ in support...
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“What is a woman?”: the US Supreme Court must decide
On 13th January 2026, the United States Supreme Court will hear two cases which push it to adjudicate on...
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The state of affairs in protecting women’s sport
Progress has been made, but some sports are still lagging behind in spite of the Supreme Court judgment. What...
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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”)...
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EHRC consultation: sport
This is the third in a series of posts focusing in detail on individual parts of the Equality and...
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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...
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Revised guidance for Transgender Inclusion in Domestic Sport – introduction to legal considerations
Guidance by Harper Macleod LLP for the UK Home Nations Sports Councils on the considerations underpinning its Guidance for...
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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...
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The hard truth about sport – Fiona McAnena in conversation with Helen Joyce
Fiona talks to Helen Joyce about how we got here: from Renee Richards to Lia Thomas and Emily Bridges,...
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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...
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Changing rooms?
Fiona McAnena and Anya Palmer for the New Law Journal assert that the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland,...
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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...
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Why “sorry” is the hardest word
During the weeks since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that “sex” in the Equality Act refers to biology, much...