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Response to the Bar Standards Board consultation on regulation of non-professional conduct use of social media by barristers

New guidance for barristers curtails freedom of speech and promotes discrimination

The Bar Standards Board has been holding a public consultation on its new guidance on the regulation of non-professional...

Petition champions

After just three days we were over a quarter of the way to the 100,000 signatures needed to prompt...

Campaign update: Day 1

Yesterday we launched the Make the Equality Act Clear petition, calling on the government to clarify, with a legislative...

Sex Matters writes to MSPs

Tomorrow 27th October is the Stage 1 debate on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill by the Scottish Parliament. Sex...

Murray Blackburn Mackenzie

Collective formed in 2018 of three women with backgrounds in policy-making, research and communications: Dr Kath Murray, Dr Lucy...

Legal Feminist

Collective of solicitors and barristers, some anonymous and some not. Blogs on subjects related to sex, gender and the...

Converting minds or bodies? 

A riposte to the Good Law Project’s published advice on conversion therapy

Sex and the law – share our short guide

What does intersex mean? Are you allowed to mention someone’s sex if they don’t want you to? Has someone...

Sex and the law (2022)

Archived version of our 2022 guide.

Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision July 2022

A revision of the February 2021 edition.

Forstater discrimination ruling will have profound effect

Rhona Darbyshire for The TImes

Trans people will still be protected against harassment, but must share that protection with those...

Maya Forstater wins three claims in employment tribunal following trans row

Andrew Doyle talks to Maya Forstater on Free Speech Nation.

17:54 on YouTube.

What does the Forstater judgment mean for employers?

On 6th July 2022 an employment tribunal found that Maya Forstater had been directly discriminated against by the Center...

Campaigner was discriminated against over gender critical beliefs

Law Society Gazette by Michael Cross
A ‘gender-critical’ campaigner suffered direct discrimination by a non-governmental organisation when it...

Maya Forstater: Woman discriminated against over trans tweets, tribunal rules

BBC News
A woman who said people cannot change their biological sex was discriminated against by her employers,...

A win for free speech and sex-based rights

Sex Matters’ Executive Director, Maya Forstater, has won her employment tribunal case against her former employer. Here is her...

Forstater v CGD Europe & Others: Maya Forstater succeeds in Employment Tribunal

Press release from Doyle Clayton, workplace lawyers.

Gender critical beliefs are protected in the workplace.

Edward Lord recused from hearing gender-critical belief case

A recent hearing of the Employment Appeal Tribunal considered whether trans rights activist Edward Lord was a suitable person...

Groups defending sex-based rights

Overview of groups opposing sex self-ID in the UK, set up by individuals and collectives concerned by the failure...

Male and female in the Equality Act 

Last week Old Square Chambers hosted a seminar about single-sex services and the law. Barristers Nicola Newbegin and Robin Moira...

Who is Edward Lord?

Can a person who accuses everyone who disagrees with radical gender ideology of “transphobia” be the right person to...

Sex self-ID in Scotland and transgender unemployment

The Gender Recognition Act 2004 was an extraordinary piece of legislation intended for an extraordinary group of people. It...

Briefing for conversion therapy debate

The Government has decided to introduce a law banning “gay conversion therapy’”, but following consultation decided not to introduce...

Gender-critical: your rights at work

A leaflet to print at home. Or a glossier version for colour printing or sharing online.

We have been worthy of respect for a whole year!

A year ago today Maya Forstater won a critical judgment in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, establishing that gender-critical beliefs...

Sex realists gaining ground at Westminster

Debates on new laws in Parliament are one of the key battlefields between sex realists and sex denialists, with...

Maya Forstater: Warning on ‘quickie’ gender recognition certificates in Scotland

Jason Allardyce for The Sunday Times.

Maya Forstater of Sex Matters is quoted.

Is Scotland going to turn the UK into an identity-laundering haven?

As part of Sex Matters’ response to the Scottish Parliament consultation on GRA reform we raised security concerns. This...

We’ve told the Scottish Parliament our views – have you?

We asked you to respond to the consultation on Scotland’s draft bill to reform the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and...

Response to Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

Sex Matters’ response to the government consultation, submitted on 9th May 2022. The rules for obtaining a GRC should...

Self-ID: tell the Scottish Parliament your views!

When the Gender Recognition Act came into force in 2004, it was a single regime for the UK. The...