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Sex Matters welcomes review of police politicisation
The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman KC MP, has written to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Andy Cooke, to raise concerns...
2nd September 2023
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Paused investigation into Baroness Falkner risks equalities watchdog ‘running adrift’
Edward Malnick for The Telegraph
EHRC head accused of discrimination in her efforts to rebalance quango’s approach to trans issues,... -
Maya Forstater hits out at ‘ideologically captured’ CPS for guidelines stating parents could be charged with domestic abuse for refusing to pay for their child’s transgender treatment or not using their preferred pronoun
Harry Howard for Mail Online
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Maya Forstater on BBC 2 Politics Live
Maya Forstater is interviewed alongside Robin Moira White by presenter Jo Coburn for BBC 2's Politics Live.
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New guidance on trivial, malicious and irrational complaints
The College of Policing has published new Authorised Professional Practice (APP) guidance on ‘Responding to hate’, which states that non-crime hate...
19th June 2023
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Westminster Hall debate on our petition to make the Equality Act clear
Monday 12th June 2023 For the full official transcription of the debate, see Hansard. In the chair, Judith Cummins...
13th June 2023
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Make the Equality Act clear: resources for MPs
Links to the Westminster Hall debate on 12th June 2023, a single-sheet briefing for MPs, and other resources summarising...
12th June 2023
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Maya Forstater: Today’s Common debate on sex, gender and the Equality Act. The Government must clear up this mess.
Maya Forstater for Conservative Home
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Make the Equality Act clear: easy-read version
This is the seventh in a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th...
8th June 2023
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Why the Equality Act should be sorted out with legislation
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th...
5th June 2023
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Campaigners reveal in new poll majority of Britons want trans ban in female spaces
Sarah O’Grady, Social Affairs Editor for the Daily Express
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023....5th June 2023
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Less than third of Britons want transwomen allowed in female-only spaces
James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The Times
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023. ...5th June 2023
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Fewer than a third of Brits think trans women should be allowed to use female changing rooms and three-quarters want them excluded from women’s sport
Ryan Hooper for the Daily Mail
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023.5th June 2023
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Less than a third of Brits say transwomen should be allowed in female-only spaces and sports
Sex Matters has today released the findings from a representative national poll. It finds that less than one in...
5th June 2023
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Sex Matters poll results as graphics (for printing)
A six-page graphical summary of the figures from our survey: a nationally representative sample of over-18s, polled online on...
5th June 2023
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Sex Matters poll results as graphics (for screen)
A six-page graphical summary of the figures from our survey: a nationally representative sample of over-18s, polled online on...
5th June 2023
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Sex and gender in legislation: the case against “legal sex change”
Understanding GRA2004 as making a "legal sex change" is erroneous and overstates the effect of a gender recognition certificate....
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Equality Act and sex – important Scots cases on the horizon
Michael Foran for Scottish Legal News
Two cases concerning the meaning of sex within the Equality Act:
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How the public-sector equality duty was turned against women
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th...
2nd June 2023
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Sex in the Equality Act: the Westminster Hall debate – webinar
On 8th June 2023, Helen Joyce talked to academic Michael Foran and barrister Naomi Cunningham on about the upcoming...
1st June 2023
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Why “sex” and “gender” mean the same thing in law
This is the second in a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th...
31st May 2023
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Why we don’t want “biological” added before “sex” in the law
This is the first of a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th...
30th May 2023
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Teacher who ‘misgendered’ pupil banned from profession
Louisa Clarence-Smith for The Telegraph
Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian who also spoke out against gay marriage, says he is 'devastated'... -
This is a despicable witch-hunt by the trans lobby against a fine and principled woman
Maya Forstater for the Daily Mail
Maya Forstater writes in defence of Baroness Falkner, chair of the Equality and...24th May 2023
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We call on GANHRI to protect civic space
On 3rd May 2023 Stonewall and a group of organisations wrote to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights...
16th May 2023
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Letter to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
Our 12th May 2023 letter, signed by 24 organisations, to Katharina Rose, Geneva Representative of GANHRI, asking it to...
12th May 2023
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – April 2023 revision
A revision of the February 2021 edition.
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Letter to the College of Policing
Our detailed comments in response to to the consultation on the Authorised Professional Practice Recording and retention of non-crime...
18th April 2023
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Two weeks to go!
Last October, Sex Matters launched a petition asking the government to amend the Equality Act 2010 in order to...
6th April 2023
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Webinar: Sex Matters in the Equality Act
Helen Joyce talked with our chair, Naomi Cunningham, and our executive director, Maya Forstater, about the Sex Matters...
30th March 2023
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Sex Matters in the Equality Act webinar
Helen Joyce talked with our chair, Naomi Cunningham, and our executive director, Maya Forstater, on Thursday 30th March 2023...
20th March 2023
