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The Scottish government should take action to protect women at work

Sex Matters, along with Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women, today wrote to Neil...

Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Scotland

Sex Matters, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women wrote to Neil Gray MSP urging...

Reviewing the UK’s human rights framework

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) will be reviewing the UK’s approach to human rights...

Input to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) 

Our January 2025 submission to the UN's Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as it considers the response...

Witness statement of Maya Forstater in Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Elizabeth Upton

Maya Forstater's statement for this Scottish Employment Tribunal in February 2025.

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...

Edinburgh employment tribunal says no to trans anonymity order

An employment tribunal in Edinburgh has rejected a plea by Fife Health Board and a trans-identifying doctor for an...

YouGov / Sex Matters survey results, December 2024

Results of fieldwork on 18th–19th December 2024. Published by YouGov.

Sex Matters is challenging BTP’s abusive strip-search policy

On 30th September British Transport Police (BTP) adopted a new searching policy that allows male officers who have gender-recognition...

The For Women Scotland case at the Supreme Court

A one-page summary of what the case is about, why it matters, and what the possible outcomes are.

For Women Scotland in the Supreme Court

What was the case about? For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers was heard by the Supreme Court...

Gender recognition and the Equality Act 2010

A briefing analysing the debate on the interaction between the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010,...

Sex matters at the Supreme Court!

An important legal case will be heard in the UK Supreme Court this week (on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday...

Sex Matters threatens British Transport Police with legal action

At the end of last week Sex Matters sent a pre-action letter to the British Transport Police (BTP) challenging...

Statement of case for the Scottish Ministers and the Lord Advocate

Statement of Case for the Scottish Ministers and Lord Advocate to the Supreme Court regarding the For Women Scotland...

Sex Matters at the Battle of Ideas

The three Sex Matters directors, Fiona McAnena, Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce, all spoke at the Battle of Ideas...

Submission to Supreme Court re For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers from Sex Matters

Sex Matters, represented by Ben Cooper KC and David Welsh, is intervening in the appeal in the case of...

Briefing on our intervention to the Supreme Court on the definition of sex

This six-page briefing looks at our key arguments why “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 should be construed as...

Submission to Supreme Court re For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers from EHRC

Submission from the Equality and Human Rights Commission to the Supreme Court in the appeal in the case of For...

Submission to Supreme Court re For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers from Scottish Lesbians, the Lesbian Project and LGB Alliance

Submission to the Supreme Court in the appeal in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, heard by...

Submission to Supreme Court re For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers from Amnesty International

Submission from Amnesty International in the appeal in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, heard by...

For Women Scotland – supplementary documents

Links to FWS's Statement of Facts and Issues and Appendix to the Appeal; the decision under appeal (FWS v Scottish...

Sex Matters to intervene in landmark For Women Scotland supreme court case on meaning of sex in the Equality Act

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Sex Matters responds to EHRC strategy

Sex Matters has responded to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s 2025–2028 strategic plan. In 2021 we called on...

Why is Sex Matters intervening in the case of Kristie Higgs?

Sex Matters, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Church of England Archbishops’ Council, the Free Speech Union and...

For Women Scotland – appellant’s written case

Don’t Get Caught Out – a summary of gender critical belief discrimination employment tribunal judgments

by Ruth Birchall and Jo Phoenix

Anneliese Dodds must listen to women

Anneliese Dodds, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has said in response to a written question asking whether the...

Council admits discriminating against social worker over her gender-critical views

Cambridgeshire county council has paid social work manager Lizzy Pitts £54,000 in compensation after admitting discriminating against her for...

Equal Treatment Bench Book – July 2024 edition

This edition represents the first major revision for three years.

The five tests that must be passed before any new law banning “conversion practices” 

The government has announced in the King’s Speech that a “draft bill will be brought forward to ban conversion...

EHRC issues guidance on discriminatory adverts

As the EHRC says, an advert is a notice or announcement – written or oral – promoting a job...