Human rights
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Helen Joyce on sex, gender identity and human rights
Helen Joyce is Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters.
These are edited versions of Helen’s talks at the conferences held in 2023 in Killarney and 2024 in Lisbon by Genspect, an international organisation advocating for non-medical approaches to gender distress. -
New MoJ transgender prisoner policy: Sex Matters’ response
Sex Matters welcomes the Ministry of Justice’s announcement that men who identify as women will no longer be housed in women’s prisons if they have male genitalia or have committed sexual or violent crimes, with exceptions only to be made with ministerial authority. We join Woman’s Place UK and...
6th March 2023
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The transition from sex to gender in English prisons: human rights and queer theory
By Michael Biggs. This paper analyses how the prison system in England and Wales transitioned from sex to gender, from the 1990s to the 2010s. It traces the succession of criteria for allocating males to women’s prisons: first genital surgery, then legal sex, and finally gender identity, and explains...
