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The Scottish Government has stopped hiding behind the EHRC: now it must act
The Scottish Government has stopped hiding behind the claim that it needs to wait for the Equality and Human...
4th July 2025
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EHRC consultation: asking about sex at birth
This is the second in a series of posts focusing in detail on individual parts of the Equality and...
4th July 2025
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The EHRC code of practice should stick to the law
This is the first in a series of posts focusing in detail on individual parts of the Equality and...
30th June 2025
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Response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s code of practice for service providers, associations and public bodies
Sex Matters’ response to the EHRC consultation seeking feedback on its updated code of practice for service providers,...
27th June 2025
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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...
11th January 2025
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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...
2nd January 2025
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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...
20th December 2024
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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...
3rd December 2024
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Submission to Supreme Court re For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers from EHRC
Submission from the Equality and Human Rights Commission to the Supreme Court in the appeal in the case of For...
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Sex Matters responds to EHRC strategy
Sex Matters has responded to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s 2025–2028 strategic plan. In 2021 we called on...
4th October 2024
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Response to EHRC strategy
We responded to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft strategic plan for 2025 to 2028 to thank...
4th October 2024
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Sex matters and the new government
The UK has a new prime minister and we now know there will be a new Labour government, with...
5th July 2024
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Has the EHRC forgotten about children and safeguarding?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published its response to the Department for Education’s draft guidance for schools...
21st March 2024
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What does the law say about “gender-questioning children” in schools?
An analysis of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s response to the Department for Education’s draft guidance for...
21st March 2024
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Threats, reprisals and intimidation against the EHRC and those who stand up for sex-based rights in Britain
We prepared this detailed submission to accompany our letter to GANHRI (the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions)...
5th February 2024
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Letter to Kishwer Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
On behalf of Sex Matters and Transgender Trend, we have written to express our concern about the first recommendation...
17th November 2023
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Letter to the EHRC about its technical guidance on the Equality Act
Our letter to Kishwer Falkner and Marcial Boo at the Equality and Human Rights Commission flags the concerns raised...
5th 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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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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Keeping children safe as girls and boys in education
The first review of the UK's legal framework on sex and gender in education shows that thousands of schools...
4th September 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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Paused investigation into Baroness Falkner risks equalities watchdog ‘running adrift’
Edward Malnick for The Telegraph
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We call on GANHRI to protect civic space
On 3rd May 2023 Stonewall and a group of organisations wrote to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights...
16th May 2023
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Thank you, Kishwer Falkner
We have written to Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: Dear Kishwer Falkner Thank...
11th April 2023
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Two weeks to go!
Last October, Sex Matters launched a petition asking the government to amend the Equality Act 2010 in order to...
6th April 2023
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EHRC publishes letter on clarifying sex in the Equality Act
Sex Matters’ press statement Sex Matters welcomes the letter from Kishwer Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights...
4th April 2023
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Single-sex services: the Survivors’ Network response
On 4th April 2022 the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued new guidance on the law on single...
27th April 2022
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Analysis of the open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Survivors’ Network
On 4th April 2022 the EHRC issued new guidance on the law on single-sex and separate-sex services, which was...
27th April 2022
