Equality Act • Page 4
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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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Submission (written intervention) on Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018
Part of Sex Matters’ submission to the Judicial Review of the revised statutory guidance produced by the Scottish Ministers...
4th October 2023
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Productions (second inventory of productions for the applicant) on Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018
Part of Sex Matters’ submission to the Judicial Review of the revised statutory guidance produced by the Scottish Ministers...
4th October 2023
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Authorities (list of authorities for the applicant) on Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018
Part of Sex Matters’ submission to the Judicial Review of the revised statutory guidance produced by the Scottish Ministers...
4th 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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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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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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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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It’s wrong to lie to children: The Department of Education should learn this simple lesson
Stephanie Davies-Arai for The Critic.
Davies-Arai traces the history of the government's continually delayed transgender schools guidance, originally due to... -
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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Denise Fahmy v Arts Council England (case number 6000042/2022)
Press release from Didlaw, whose partner Elizabeth McGlone worked alongside Anya Palmer Counsel of Old Square Chambers to support...
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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
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Maya Forstater: Today’s Common debate on sex, gender and the Equality Act. The Government must clear up this mess.
Maya Forstater for Conservative Home
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Campaigners reveal in new poll majority of Britons want trans ban in female spaces
Sarah O’Grady, Social Affairs Editor for the Daily Express
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023....5th June 2023
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Less than third of Britons want transwomen allowed in female-only spaces
James Beal, Social Affairs Editor for The Times
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023. ...5th June 2023
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Fewer than a third of Brits think trans women should be allowed to use female changing rooms and three-quarters want them excluded from women’s sport
Ryan Hooper for the Daily Mail
Feature on Sex Matters’ poll results, released on 5th June 2023.5th June 2023
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Less than a third of Brits say transwomen should be allowed in female-only spaces and sports
Sex Matters has today released the findings from a representative national poll. It finds that less than one in...
5th June 2023
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Sex Matters poll results as graphics (for printing)
A six-page graphical summary of the figures from our survey: a nationally representative sample of over-18s, polled online on...
5th June 2023
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Sex Matters poll results as graphics (for screen)
A six-page graphical summary of the figures from our survey: a nationally representative sample of over-18s, polled online on...
5th June 2023
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Sex Matters poll results
Six questions about transwomen answered by a nationally representative sample of over-18s, polled online on 15th May 2023 by...
5th June 2023
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It’s time to make the Equality Act clear
This 20-page booklet explains why we have asked the government to consider clarifying the meaning of “sex” in the...
5th June 2023
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Sex and gender in legislation: the case against “legal sex change”
Understanding GRA2004 as making a "legal sex change" is erroneous and overstates the effect of a gender recognition certificate....
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Equality Act and sex – important Scots cases on the horizon
Michael Foran for Scottish Legal News
Two cases concerning the meaning of sex within the Equality Act:
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How the public-sector equality duty was turned against women
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts in the run up to the debate on 12th...
2nd June 2023
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Sex in the Equality Act: the Westminster Hall debate – webinar
On 8th June 2023, Helen Joyce talked to academic Michael Foran and barrister Naomi Cunningham on about the upcoming...
1st June 2023
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Campaign update: make the Equality Act clear
Read Hansard’s transcription of the debate or our summary. There will be a debate on our petition on Monday...
1st June 2023
