Scotland
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For Women Scotland returns to court
Judicial review of Scottish Prison Service policy
13th February 2026
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Letter to the National Library of Scotland
We are dismayed that the book The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht has been excluded from the National Library of...
13th August 2025
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The Scottish Government has offered to meet us
We have received a letter from the Scottish Government’s Director of People, Dr Nicola Richards, offering a meeting. Richards...
15th July 2025
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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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Reply from the Scottish Government
John Somers, Director of Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights for the Scottish government, responds to our letter before action...
28th June 2025
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Letter before action to the Scottish Government
A representative of the Scottish Government has said that no policy changes will be made in response to the...
18th June 2025
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The Scottish Government must be made to follow the law
Sex Matters has sent a letter before action to the Scottish Government, putting it on notice that we will...
18th June 2025
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Letter to Karen Adam MSP
We wrote to express our concerns about the Equality Network’s submission to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil...
28th April 2025
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UK Supreme Court case: where could the decision leave the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill?
Independent policy analysis collective Murray Blackburn Mackenzie sets out why responsibility for the next move on the Gender Recognition...
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Sex in the Supreme Court – a brief overview
A legal analysis of the For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers case by academic and writer Michael Foran...
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How safe are our Scottish hospitals? The concerning extent of sexual assaults and rapes in Scottish hospitals 2019–2024
Carolyn Brown and Mary Howden’s report for the Women’s Rights Network highlights that NHS boards and private hospitals are...
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The Scottish government should take action to protect women at work
Sex Matters, along with Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women, today wrote to Neil...
18th February 2025
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Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Scotland
Sex Matters, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women wrote to Neil Gray MSP urging...
18th February 2025
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Maya Forstater gives evidence in changing-room case
On 5th February, Sex Matters CEO Maya Forstater gave evidence in the ongoing employment tribunal case of Sandie Peggie...
7th February 2025
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Witness statement of Maya Forstater in Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Elizabeth Upton
Maya Forstater's statement for this Scottish Employment Tribunal in February 2025.
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The For Women Scotland case at the Supreme Court
A one-page summary of what the case is about, why it matters, and what the possible outcomes are.
18th 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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Sex matters at the Supreme Court!
An important legal case will be heard in the UK Supreme Court this week (on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday...
25th November 2024
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Statement of case for the Scottish Ministers and the Lord Advocate
Statement of Case for the Scottish Ministers and Lord Advocate to the Supreme Court regarding the For Women Scotland...
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Submission to Supreme Court re For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers from Sex Matters
Sex Matters, represented by Ben Cooper KC and David Welsh, is intervening in the appeal in the case of...
24th October 2024
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Briefing on our intervention to the Supreme Court on the definition of sex
This six-page briefing looks at our key arguments why “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 should be construed as...
23rd October 2024
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The standards crisis in Rape Crisis
The board of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) has decided that “the time is right for a change of...
22nd September 2024
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A Woman’s Guide to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021
A brief guide to what the Act says, and other relevant legal references, explaining when you are entitled to...
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“Misgendering” and the Scottish Hate Crime Act
On 1st April, the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act came into force. The law has generated headlines...
5th April 2024
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Submission to the Scottish Government consultation on ending conversion practices in Scotland
Sex Matters’ response to the Scottish Government’s consultation.
2nd April 2024
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Sex and the law in December 2023 – a briefing
Briefing from Sex Matters for a meeting of the Women and Equalities Committee on 13th December 2023
12th December 2023
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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...
8th December 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
