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What next for sport?
We are winning in sport. The most popular sports for female participation in the UK – swimming, athletics, tennis,...
16th May 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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What does the Equality Act mean for women’s sports?
There are two ongoing cases in the same sport, pool. Women’s tournaments are run in the UK by Ultimate...
8th April 2025
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Fairness for women in sport is only for the lucky few
Sports governing bodies are continuing to ignore established facts and guidance about sex differences in sports. Even some sports...
30th January 2025
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Game On – community and school sport: Culture, Media and Sport committee inquiry
Sex Matters’ contribution to the inquiry being undertaken by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to examine the health...
30th January 2025
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Support rising for clarity on sex in law, new poll shows
A one-page summary of our December 2024 YouGov poll showing that a majority of the public want clarity about...
14th January 2025
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Support rises for clarity on sex in law
A new poll conducted by YouGov for Sex Matters shows that a clear majority of the UK population supports...
14th January 2025
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YouGov / Sex Matters survey results, December 2024
Results of fieldwork on 18th–19th December 2024. Published by YouGov.
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The legal status of women-only sport
British law is on our side. The Gender Recognition Act says that a person who gets a gender-recognition certificate...
26th November 2024
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Answering questions about data protection
As part of our ongoing work on defending the female category in sport, we recently asked people to get...
4th November 2024
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UN special rapporteur calls for sex screening in women’s sport
The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, has published her report on violence against...
17th October 2024
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When child safeguarding meets gender ideology in sport, children are the losers
An organisation meant to protect children has built gender-identity ideology into its policies, putting children at risk. There is...
19th September 2024
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Sporting crises foretold
The awkward truth about “trans inclusion” that regulators need to heed The furore surrounding women’s boxing at the Olympics...
23rd August 2024
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Sex Matters in sport – media briefing
On 8th August 2024, Fiona McAnena, Sex Matters’ director of campaigns, chaired a webinar to brief journalists on the...
8th August 2024
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The problem of male inclusion in women’s sport
A three-page briefing explaining what's going on in Olympic boxing and the background information you need.
5th August 2024
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XY athletes in women’s Olympic boxing: the Paris 2024 controversy explained
Doriane Lambelet Coleman explains the historical, political, and medical context of the Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting cases.
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International Olympic Committee Was Warned About Male Boxers, World Boxing Organization Vice President Says
A Hungarian sports official has come out and stated that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is not female, reports Jennifer...
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The IOC doubles down on unfairness for women in boxing
The International Olympic Committee’s media briefing on 2nd August was dominated by questions about the eligibility of boxers in...
2nd August 2024
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Briefing on sport and DSDs (disorders of sex development)
A one-page briefing on male sporting advantage and why DSDs matter in sport.
1st August 2024
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Gender Ambiguity, Transgenderism and Women’s Sport
Every essay Quillette has published on gender-ambiguous and trans-identified men competing against biological women in sport.
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Is Labour positioning itself to fix the mess in women’s sports?
On 23rd July The House magazine, a publication for MPs and peers, published an interview with the new Secretary...
25th July 2024
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Why do people think “transgender rights” have gone too far?
It’s not just about self-ID Support for the law that allows people to change the sex recorded on their...
14th June 2024
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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...
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Who can play women’s football in England? – briefing for Parliamentarians
Includes details of current FA and FIFA policies on the inclusion of trans-identifying males.
22nd April 2024
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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...
31st March 2024
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The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes
Tommy R. Lundberg, Ross Tucker, and Emma N. Hilton contributed equally to this study for the Scandinavian Journal of...
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How trans inclusion in sport is harming women and girls
The harms caused include unfair competition and demoralisation; losing out on records, rankings or on opportunities to participate; no...
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SEEN in Sport
Network set up in April 2024 for all players, coaches, officials and parents who believe that women and girl’s...
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Levelling the playing field – why women and girls matter in amateur sport
Why women and girls matter in amateur sport
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Performance of non-binary athletes in mass-participation running events
By John Armstrong, Alice Sullivan and George M Perry
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2023 Volume 9, Issue... -
The trans colonisation of women’s sports
Fiona McAnena explains how an obsessive, decades-long campaign ushered in a whole new era of sporting sexism.
