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The very latest news and updates from Sex Matters.
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Sex Matters delivers letter to Prime Minister
The Sex Matters team were joined by women’s rights activists to deliver the #DefendUs letter to 10 Downing Street...
9th November 2023
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The ONS should admit its gender-identity question failed
The Office for National Statistics has released the final summary of its investigations into the quality of the England...
8th November 2023
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No conversion therapy in the King’s Speech
Sex Matters welcomes the news that the government has not committed to bringing forward a bill to ban “conversion...
7th November 2023
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It’s time to act
Following the judgment in the For Women Scotland appeal, it is time for the government to act.
2nd November 2023
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Court rules that GRC changes sex for the Equality Act
For Women Scotland’s appeal against the Haldane judgment that a GRC changes a person’s sex in relation to the...
1st November 2023
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It’s time to ban modern conversion therapy
The campaign to ban “conversion therapy” focuses on historic abuses, like this one that happened in 1964: “During the...
25th October 2023
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Data matters
The easiest way to ask about sex is to ask a simple question and expect a straightforward answer.
19th October 2023
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Sex matters in data collection webinar
On 24th October 2023, Sex Matters’ director of advocacy, Helen Joyce, talked with sociologists Michael Biggs and Lucinda Platt...
17th October 2023
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Sex Matters at FiLiA
The Sex Matters team had a fantastic time at the FiLiA conference in Glasgow from 13th to 15th October....
17th October 2023
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Sex matters in the hospitality industry
If you provide toilets to the public or to employees, take ten minutes to respond to the government’s consultation...
3rd October 2023
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Sex Matters to intervene in For Women Scotland case
Sex Matters has been given permission, as a human-rights organisation, to intervene in the For Women Scotland case being...
2nd October 2023
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What is new in the EHRC guidance?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has today released updated technical guidance on the Equality Act for schools in...
22nd September 2023
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Campaign update and appeal
Sex Matters is campaigning for the government to make a one-line change to the law to make clear that...
22nd September 2023
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Sex and gender: a contemporary reader
Two directors of Sex Matters, Michael Biggs and Emma Hilton, have contributed chapters to Sex and Gender: A Contemporary...
18th September 2023
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EHRC to correct inaccurate schools guidance
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to us to confirm that it is undertaking a rapid review...
17th September 2023
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Schools are in danger of breaking the law on sex and gender
The Department for Education’s new guidance for schools needs to be produced soon, and it needs to be aligned...
4th September 2023
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Dear Kemi: will you tackle the technical guidance?
Sex Matters has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities calling on her to ask the Equality and...
3rd September 2023
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Sex Matters welcomes review of police politicisation
The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman KC MP, has written to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Andy Cooke, to raise concerns...
2nd September 2023
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Prime Minister, will you stand up to violence against women?
Today we have written to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. Dear Prime Minister We ask you to take urgent...
1st September 2023
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Sex Matters in Manchester
Sunday 10th September, 10am to 12.30pm “Woman means adult human female.” “Transwomen are men.” People who make statements such...
31st August 2023
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Getting to good schools guidance
The Secretary of State for Education is due to release guidance for schools in relation to “gender-questioning” children (who...
30th August 2023
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Stonewall chair speaks (and then recants)
Iain Anderson, chair of trustees for Stonewall, has given an extended interview to Sky News’s Beth Rigby. It is...
22nd July 2023
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Why is the government getting in such a mess over the schools guidance?
It has been reported that Rishi Sunak is planning to delay issuing trans guidance for schools after the Attorney...
19th July 2023
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Schools guidance: the Education Secretary must act
The end of term is getting near, and Secretary of State for Education Gillian Keegan has still not handed...
14th July 2023
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Incitement to violence at Trans Pride
At Trans Pride in London on 8th July 2023, a speaker was seen addressing the crowd using a PA...
10th July 2023
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Sex Matters statement on LGB Alliance win
London – Today, the First Tier Tribunal general regulatory chamber (charity) rejected a challenge brought by trans lobby group...
6th July 2023
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Trans guidance for schools goes round in circles
The long-awaited guidance from the Department for Education on how schools should respond to children with gender issues in...
5th July 2023
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Statement on the People’s History Museum
Sex Matters is a human-rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and policy. We were founded...
30th June 2023
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Let the UN Special Rapporteur on VAWG deliver her mandate
Nearly 800 representatives of women’s-rights and human-rights organisations have sent a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council in...
23rd June 2023
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Fairness in sports governance: a Sex Matters webinar
Our director of advocacy, Helen Joyce, talked to Olympian Sharron Davies and campaigner Fiona McAnena on 28th June 2023...
21st June 2023
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New guidance on trivial, malicious and irrational complaints
The College of Policing has published new Authorised Professional Practice (APP) guidance on ‘Responding to hate’, which states that non-crime hate...
19th June 2023
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Westminster Hall debate on our petition to make the Equality Act clear
Monday 12th June 2023 For the full official transcription of the debate, see Hansard. In the chair, Judith Cummins...
13th June 2023