Legal systems • Page 4
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Applying for a gender-recognition certificate: the facts
Is the process “intrusive, outdated and humiliating”? This briefing examines the evidence.
28th June 2024
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Gender critical cases: sex matters
Maya Forstater and Anya Palmer for the New Law Journal say that complaints about discrimination in relation to any...
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Another fall in public support for changing sex on birth certificates
The latest results from the annual British Social Attitudes survey show a further fall in support for the law...
12th 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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This damning judgment should be a wake-up call for the women’s sector
Adams v Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre This week, an employment tribunal ruled that caseworker Roz Adams was subjected to...
22nd May 2024
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The government wants examples of bad guidance on single-sex services
Send in the evidence! The government has issued a call for the public to input evidence of bad policies...
2nd May 2024
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Legal opinion says promotion policy discriminates on basis of gender-critical beliefs
Earlier this year Sex Matters was approached by Dr John Armstrong, a reader in mathematics at King’s College London...
20th April 2024
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Counsel’s opinion in the matter of King’s College London academic promotions criteria
KCL’s promotion policy discriminates on the basis of gender-critical beliefs, and will also be likely to contravene the new...
20th April 2024
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Digital verification services
– how the government can solve the problem about sex (or else sleepwalk into chaos)
17th April 2024
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A Woman’s Guide to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021
A brief guide to what the Act says, and other relevant legal references, explaining when you are entitled to...
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“Misgendering” and the Scottish Hate Crime Act
On 1st April, the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act came into force. The law has generated headlines...
5th April 2024
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Submission to the Scottish Government consultation on ending conversion practices in Scotland
Sex Matters’ response to the Scottish Government’s consultation.
2nd April 2024
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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...
21st March 2024
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Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill – briefing
This private member's bill’s second reading is on the House of Commons agenda for the morning of Friday...
14th March 2024
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Will you ask your MP to support a bill to protect women and children?
This Friday a private member’s bill in the House of Commons presents MPs with a chance to discuss changing...
11th March 2024
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Bias at the BBC
What’s the issue? The BBC’s director of complaints has ruled that the presenter Justin Webb broke the BBC’s rules...
1st March 2024
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Lords debate conversion therapy
On Friday 9th February 2024 Baroness Burt’s Private Member’s Bill proposing a ban on “conversion therapy” was debated in...
21st February 2024
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How identity politics infiltrated the judiciary
Laurie Wastell writes for The Spectator about the Equal Treatment Bench Book, quoting Sex Matters.
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Police SEEN UK
UK policing’s national sex equality and equity network, launched in January 2024 with a mission to restore fairness, impartiality...
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Sex and the police: confusion over the law and state-sanctioned sexual assault
Update on the review into activism and impartiality in policing HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary Fire & Rescue Services...
10th January 2024
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State sanctioned sexual assault: women pay the price for policing beyond the law
In December 2021, the Police Chiefs' Council approved a policy that permitted officers to strip and even intimately search...
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Gender-critical civil society submits report to GREVIO on sex and the law
Sex Matters, Fair Play For Women and Transgender Trend, together with LGB Alliance, the Women’s Rights Network, For Women...
31st December 2023
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Sex and the law in December 2023 – a briefing
Briefing from Sex Matters for a meeting of the Women and Equalities Committee on 13th December 2023
12th December 2023
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Resisting violations of women-only spaces
The chair of Sex Matters’ board, barrister Naomi Cunningham, was asked to speak at a conference in Edinburgh on...
7th December 2023
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No conversion therapy in the King’s Speech
Sex Matters welcomes the news that the government has not committed to bringing forward a bill to ban “conversion...
7th November 2023
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Policy proposal: Legislation to ban modern conversion therapy
Any law to ban conversion therapy should seek to solve problems that exist today, not symbolically fight the battles...
25th October 2023
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Letter to the EHRC about its technical guidance on the Equality Act
Our letter to Kishwer Falkner and Marcial Boo at the Equality and Human Rights Commission flags the concerns raised...
5th October 2023
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Sex matters in the hospitality industry
If you provide toilets to the public or to employees, take ten minutes to respond to the government’s consultation...
3rd October 2023
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The government needs to put safeguarding first – it should not allow social transitioning in schools
Stephanie Davies-Arai for The Critic
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Making the Equality Act clear – the story so far
This is the story so far, but it is just the beginning. The next stage in the campaign is...
25th September 2023
