Legal systems

Gender representation on public boards (Scotland) – opinion of the court, 18th February 2022

For Women Scotland sought judicial review of the Scottish Government’s decision to change the definition of “woman”, an appeal...

Sex and digital identities

How digital identities can solve the problem with sex and gender identity – and how getting it wrong will...

14th February 2022

Responses to the government consultation on banning conversion therapy

The government's consultation on conversion therapy has now closed, and the responses are being analysed. More than a thousand people...

11th February 2022

Response to the government consultation banning conversion therapy

Response to the government consultation on banning conversion therapy

We reviewed the government’s evidence base and, like the EHRC, found little evidence to support this legislation – and...

11th February 2022

Do crime victims deserve respect?

We think crime victims deserve respect, dignity, sensitivity, compassion and courtesy, as specified in the Victims’ Code.

10th February 2022

“We are gravely concerned by the attacks on the Equality and Human Rights Commission and call for you to support it.”

Will the Joint Committee on Human Rights defend the EHRC?

Sex Matters has written to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) to urge it to write to the...

9th February 2022

Letter to Joint Committee on Human Rights

We wrote to urge the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) to write to the United Nations to confirm...

8th February 2022

Submission to the Victims' Bill consultation

Submission to Victims’ Bill consultation

We agree with the principles set out in the consultation, but we think that victims also have the right...

2nd February 2022

Organisations unite to praise the EHRC

Twenty different campaigning groups from across the UK have come together in a statement of response on the Equality...

31st January 2022

Naomi Cunningham named in The Lawyer‘s 2022 Hot 100

Naomi Cunningham, employment and discrimination barrister and Chair of Sex Matters, has received a prestigious industry accolade, in part...

17th January 2022

Opposing the return of gay conversion therapy: a lawyer’s view

On 16 November 2021, writes Sex Matters Chair Naomi Cunningham, I gave a talk at the Middle Temple LGBTQ+...

16th January 2022

What do we stand for? Criminology, politically induced ignorance and gender identity politics

Criminologist Professor Jo Phoenix explains why sex matters in criminal justice.

Changes to the Equal Treatment Bench Book

Sex Matters’ table of changes made in chapter 12 of the December 2021 update.

27th December 2021

College of Policing ordered to dial down the “chilling” effect on public debate

Sex Matters welcomes today’s landmark judgment from the Court of Appeal on the recording of non-crime hate incidents. It...

20th December 2021

Getting it right – diversity and inclusion on company boards and executive committees

The Financial Conduct Authority’s proposal for monitoring diversity and inclusion is well intentioned, but flawed. Sex Matters and Legal...

15th December 2021

Passports must show M or F for sex

An appeal was made to the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal had concluded that an applicant for...

X passports appeal dismissed

The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed Christie Elan-Cane’s case for an “X” passport. The judgment states “There is no...

15th December 2021

Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision December 2021

A revision of the February 2021 edition.

No need for sex data on domestic abuse?

Yesterday the Domestic Abuse Commissioner launched a survey for survivors of domestic abuse about their experience of using domestic...

7th December 2021

Law Commission recommends protection for gender critical views from “chilling effect”

The Law Commission today released its report and recommendations on hate-crime legislation. It recommends extending hate-crime laws but calls for...

7th December 2021

Conversion therapy: the path to good law

Barrister Naomi Cunningham’s talk at the Middle Temple LGBTQ+ Forum Inaugural Annual Dinner

Submission to consultation on the EHRC’s strategic plan

Our letter to Marcial Boo, Head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, asking for urgent action.

23rd September 2021

Bellinger v Bellinger

2003 High Court

A v West Yorkshire Police

A trans-identifying male was turned down for a job as a police officer because his duties involved searching suspects...

15th September 2021

Sex and gender: belief and agnosticism after Forstater

The August 2021 edition of The Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) Briefing features a very helpful article by Akua Reindorf...

2nd August 2021

Women’s prisons and male transgender prisoners

The ruling handed down in FDJ v SSJ in the High Court of Justice last week is further proof...

Prejudging the transgender controversy?

Barrister Thomas Chacko of Policy Exchange, the UK’s leading think tank, explains why the Equal Treatment Bench Book needs...

Fighting for the principle of collecting data on biological sex

A guest post by MurrayBlackburnMackenzie. Scottish Parliament Public Petition: Call for signatures In early June MurrayBlackburnMackenzie (MBM) lodged a...

27th June 2021

Maya Forstater: One’s sex can’t change. The story of my fight to ensure that this view, held by so many, is judged “worthy of respect”.

Maya Forstater for Conservative Home

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