Legal systems • Page 9
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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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The Times view on the Maya Forstater verdict: Right to Think
Leading article in The Times<br
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We are worthy of respect in a democratic society
Today, after two years of legal battles, Sex Matters co-founder Maya Forstater achieved a landmark legal ruling that looks...
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Gender-critical beliefs are worthy of respect in a democratic society
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (10th June 2021 10:30 am) In a landmark judgment handed down at the Employment Appeal Tribunal...
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Maya Forstater: Woman wins tribunal appeal over transgender tweets
Doug Faulkner for BBC News
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Truth and reconciliation
How should the public sector leave the Stonewall Champions Scheme?
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Time to #LeaveStonewall
This is the letter we have sent to the CEOs of the 850 organisations that are members of the...
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EHRC Chairwoman writes to Sex Matters: we have left Stonewall
This week we received welcome news in a letter from Baroness Kishwer Falkner. The Equality and Human Rights Commission...
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Equality and Human Rights Commission cuts ties with Stonewall
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Open Letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission
A letter to Kishwer, Baroness Falkner of Margravine, Caroline Waters OBE, and the Commissioners of the Equality and Human...
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The Yogyakarta Principles: women’s rights were not considered
Julie Bindel and Melanie Newman talked to Professor Robert Wintemute in The Critic.
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Sex (or gender?) as a hate crime: why the rush?
The push to adopt a gender neutral definition of “misogyny” as a hate crime with amendment 87B to the...
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Stonewalling the Domestic Violence Bill: Why make “misogyny” gender neutral?
A short month ago there was an attempt to rush a bill through parliament that would set a precedent...
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – February 2021 edition
A new edition.
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Allison Bailey’s case against Stonewall will proceed
Allison Bailey is suing Stonewall Diversity Limited to stop them policing free speech. She is a barrister and helped...
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Gender-neutral drafting and the MOMA bill – briefing
Why was the word 'woman' taken out of the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances (MOMA) Bill?
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On toilet provision for men and women – technical briefing
A simple solution to replace ambiguous language and misleading guidance, for the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government.
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Sex and the Equality Act
Julius Komorowski in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland looks at what ‘sex’ means in the Equality...
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Submission to the Law Commission on communications offences
Our response argues for clarity in the terms relating to sex and gender reassignment as separate protected characteristics, and...
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Response to the Law Commission’s proposal on reform of hate crime
Why this reform extends legislation unnecessarily, is based on weak concepts, and ignores harm caused by the law itself.
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Evidence and data on transwomens’ offending rates
Submitted to the Women and Equalities Select Committee by Professor Rosa Freedman, Professor Kathleen Stock, and Professor Alice Sullivan,...
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Submission of evidence to WESC on Gender Recognition Act reform
We answer the Women and Equalities Select Committee's questions and make six recommendations.
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision March 2020
March 2020 revision of the February 2018 edition.
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Maya Forstater: Woman loses tribunal over transgender tweets
Analysis by Clive Coleman, Legal affairs correspondent, for BBC News
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision September 2019
September 2019 revision of the February 2018 edition.
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – February 2018 edition
A new edition.
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Religion or belief – is the law working?
A report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission exploring whether the equality and human rights legal framework sufficiently...
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision September 2015
September 2015 amendments to the 2013 edition.
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Transsexualism: frequently asked questions
Legal advice about employment from the Equal Opportunities Commission, June 2004
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Government policy concerning transsexual people
Department for Constitutional Affairs, December 2002
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Report of the interdepartmental working group on transexual people
Set up by the Home Secretary in April 1999 to consider, with particular reference to birth certificates, the need...
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A Guide to the Sex Discrimination (Gender reassignment) Regulations 1999
Department for Education and Employment, April 1999 This Guide provides guidance in relation to the application of the Regulations;...