Universities
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Cambridge University Society of Women
Young women pushing back against gender ideology
13th March 2026
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Template HR email on policy changes
If you work in HR, or know someone who does, copy and paste to share this model email, which...
23rd May 2025
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It’s time for a product recall
When businesses become aware that a product they have distributed poses a risk to users, they issue urgent and...
23rd May 2025
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What does the For Women Scotland judgment mean in practice?
The judgment handed down yesterday by the Supreme Court returns the Equality Act to clarity. Many organisations have fallen...
17th April 2025
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What happened at Sussex University?
What led the University of Sussex to adopt an unlawful policy that led the Office for Students to fine...
1st April 2025
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Freedom of Speech – first fine indicates strong stance
Legal analysis of the £585,000 fine imposed on the University of Sussex by the higher education regulator, the Office...
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Letter to Stonewall about its revised definition of “transphobia”.
Sex Matters has written to Stonewall’s CEO to applaud him for taking the brave step of discarding the previous...
3rd February 2025
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Sex Matters at the Battle of Ideas
The three Sex Matters directors, Fiona McAnena, Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce, all spoke at the Battle of Ideas...
25th October 2024
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Don’t Get Caught Out – a summary of gender critical belief discrimination employment tribunal judgments
by Ruth Birchall and Jo Phoenix
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The Jo Phoenix case should be a wake-up call for universities
In 2019 Professor Jo Phoenix became the target of a campaign of harassment from her colleagues at the Open...
16th May 2024
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Learning from the Jo Phoenix case
What happened at the Open University was not an isolated problem, and it was not just about Phoenix. This briefing...
16th May 2024
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Academic mobbing – what university management needs to know
Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, University of London, writes for Sex Matters on the...
15th 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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Best free speech practice
Linked with Alumni for Free Speech, this group of senior lawyers and academics has resources on best free speech...
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What went wrong at the Open University?
Alice Sullivan for The Spectator.
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EDI contra science – the misuse of “ethics” in academic research
John Armstrong writes for The Crtitic about how he was asked to survey elite athletes on their views on...
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GC Academia Network
A group of academics working in higher education, concerned about the erosion of women’s sex-based rights in law, policy...
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Sex Matters at the Education for Women’s Liberation conference
UCL Women’s Liberation SIG and WPUK Saturday 4th February 9am to 10pm Institute of Education UCL, 20 Bedford Way, London,...
2nd February 2023
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Alumni for free speech
Non-partisan, non-party political campaign for UK graduates, set up in 2022 to be co-ordinators and spokespeople for alumni; organise...
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Why we have written to UCAS about data
The latest attempt to destroy data on sex by replacing it with data on self-declared “gender identity” is in...
7th December 2022
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Helen Joyce speaks at Caius College
On 25th October 2022, Sex Matters’ Director of Advocacy Helen Joyce spoke at an event at Gonville and Caius...
15th November 2022
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Trans rights are human rights!
Sex Matters is a human-rights organisation. We believe that universal human rights form a powerful framework for thinking about...
9th November 2022
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Open letter to Minouche Shafik of the LSE
Members of the Open University Gender Critical Research Network have written to Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director of the London...
6th November 2022
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Toilets matter – a short guide to law and good practice
For any organisation that provides toilets for customers, visitors, staff or students – this guide will help you think...
15th October 2022
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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...
4th August 2022
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Why single-sex services matter: privacy, dignity, safety and choice (full report)
Over the past few years many single-sex services and spaces have been changed to mixed sex, but few of...
18th July 2022
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Why single-sex services matter: privacy, dignity, safety and choice (key findings)
Over the past few years many single-sex services and spaces have been changed to mixed sex, but few of...
18th July 2022
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Why single-sex services matter: privacy, dignity, safety and choice (30-minute read)
Over the past few years many single-sex services and spaces have been changed to mixed sex, but few of...
18th July 2022
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Information Commissioner strikes down secrecy of Stonewall scheme
The Information Commissioner has ordered the University of Oxford to disclose the scores and feedback it received from Stonewall...
1st July 2022
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Reading University VC speaks up for academic freedom
On 25 April 2022 Dr Holly Lawford-Smith, of the University of Melbourne, gave a seminar at Reading University’s school...
23rd May 2022
