Updates • Page 5
The very latest news and updates from Sex Matters.
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Government removes safeguards from digital identity bill
The government is passing legislation to establish a “trustmark” for digital identity services, and to allow these services to...
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Met Police tribunal anonymity bid rejected
An employment tribunal in South London has rejected the Metropolitan Police’s application to anonymise the identity of a witness...
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The Data Bill must protect the integrity of sex data
On Tuesday the Data Bill continues its march through the House of Commons. It is an important piece of...
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Time for the Health and Safety Executive to step up
The Sandie Peggie case has shone a spotlight on workplace health and safety regulations that require employers to provide...
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The Scottish government should take action to protect women at work
Sex Matters, along with Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women, today wrote to Neil...
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Kristie Higgs wins belief-discrimination case
Court of Appeal warns against discrimination based on unreasonable objections to social-media posts
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Reviewing the UK’s human rights framework
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) will be reviewing the UK’s approach to human rights...
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Maya Forstater gives evidence in changing-room case
On 5th February, Sex Matters CEO Maya Forstater gave evidence in the ongoing employment tribunal case of Sandie Peggie...
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Keep the safeguards in the Data Bill
The government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill has finished in the House of Lords and is now moving to...
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Stonewall changes “transphobia” definition
Sometime in January Stonewall updated its list of LGBTQ terms, removing several terms that never caught on, including “gender-variant”,...
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Support for “gender-neutral” toilets falls
A new poll from YouGov reveals that support for mixed-sex toilets is at its lowest level in five years. ...
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Fairness for women in sport is only for the lucky few
Sports governing bodies are continuing to ignore established facts and guidance about sex differences in sports. Even some sports...
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Digital identities: we have to get this right
On 21st January, Lord Patrick Vallance KCB, the Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, told the House...
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Support rises for clarity on sex in law
A new poll conducted by YouGov for Sex Matters shows that a clear majority of the UK population supports...
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Civil service must return to impartiality and protection for all
Civil servants are expected to act with impartiality, integrity, honesty and objectivity, under the direction of Ministers and in...
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Edinburgh employment tribunal says no to trans anonymity order
An employment tribunal in Edinburgh has rejected a plea by Fife Health Board and a trans-identifying doctor for an...
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Meta pledges to stop censoring gender-critical speech
Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, is taking steps to protect free...
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YouGov poll shows support for sex meaning biological sex in the Equality Act
Growing support for single-sex provision
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The Code of Practice must be clear
Sex Matters has submitted a response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission on its consultation on the Code...
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Sex Matters is challenging BTP’s abusive strip-search policy
On 30th September British Transport Police (BTP) adopted a new searching policy that allows male officers who have gender-recognition...
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EHRC consults on statutory code of practice
Sex Matters is encouraging people to respond to the EHRC’s consultation on its revised Statutory Code of Practice for...
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Sex Matters’ advisory group is growing
Sex Matters’ work depends on many friends, some in the background and some with a public face. We launched...
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Sex Matters in 2024
It’s been our busiest and most productive year yet. Here’s what we have been doing in the last 12...
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The government’s Data Bill: sleepwalking into self-ID?
The first day of the committee stage of Parliamentary scrutiny in the House of Lords on the government’s Data...
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For Women Scotland in the Supreme Court
What was the case about? For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers was heard by the Supreme Court...
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There’s still a fatal flaw in the government’s digital trust framework
The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes last week published the latest version of the UK digital identity and...
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The legal status of women-only sport
British law is on our side. The Gender Recognition Act says that a person who gets a gender-recognition certificate...
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Sex matters at the Supreme Court!
An important legal case will be heard in the UK Supreme Court this week (on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday...
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Sex Matters threatens British Transport Police with legal action
At the end of last week Sex Matters sent a pre-action letter to the British Transport Police (BTP) challenging...
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A new scandal on the horizon?
Yesterday the Data (Use and Access) Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords. Lord Arbuthnot of...
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The Data Bill will fail if the government can’t be clear about sex
The Data Use and Access Bill is being debated in the House of Lords on Tuesday 19th November. The...
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Answering questions about data protection
As part of our ongoing work on defending the female category in sport, we recently asked people to get...