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The very latest news and updates from Sex Matters.
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Sex and the law at the end of 2023
This blogpost is based on a briefing sent to the Women and Equalities Committee in advance of its...
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Section 35 appeal rejected
The Court of Session has rejected the appeal by the Scottish Government against the UK Government’s Section 35 order...
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Resisting violations of women-only spaces
The chair of Sex Matters’ board, barrister Naomi Cunningham, was asked to speak at a conference in Edinburgh on...
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Kemi Badenoch brings sense to the sex and gender debate
The era of “No Debate” is finally over. And it came to a spectacular close in the most important...
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Will you support Sex Matters in 2024?
It has been a tumultuous year. Gender-critical campaigners in the UK have achieved major wins alongside setbacks and frustrations: Sex Matters...
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An Epic crisis is unfolding in the NHS
Since October, several NHS trusts in England have been using new £450 million NHS patient-data software produced by US-based...
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This is male violence against women
Today is White Ribbon Day, the start of an annual 16 days of activism opposing violence against women. Politicians,...
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The escalating campaign of intimidation and violence against gender-critical women
After nearly 15,000 people signed our letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Joanna Cherry KC MP asked Laura Farris, Minister for...
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Sex-based language matters in healthcare – webinar
On Thursday 30th November 2023, our director of advocacy, Helen Joyce, talked to Karleen Gribble, an academic at Western...
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Putting remembrance in context
Today, 20th November, is Trans Day of Remembrance, which has been marked annually since 2011 and is intended to...
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“Please, please make it stop.”
On 9th November we delivered a letter to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, calling on him to act to...
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Guidance for service providers on single-sex services
In the light of the For Women Scotland judgment.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Data matters
The easiest way to ask about sex is to ask a simple question and expect a straightforward answer.
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...