Take action archive
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Respond to the consultation on digital ID
This consultation has now closed – thank you to everyone who responded.
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Write to your MP: why are we waiting?
Use our template to email your MP and send them our booklet.
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Lobby MPs to stop the puberty-blockers trial
Tell your MP that children deserve better – join us at Westminster on Tuesday 10th March.
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Protect children from trans ideology – send an email today
Will you take two minutes to send an email to the UK delegation on the Council of Europe?
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Help us make the law work in 2026!
We want to hold people accountable and bring organisations into line with the law. Thank you for helping us do that!
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Write to your MP: the government must stand up for women’s rights
This campaign has now finished. Thank you to the thousands of people who wrote to their MPs.
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Respond to the EHRC consultation!
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is seeking feedback on its updated code of practice for service providers, associations and public bodies. The changes to the code are in response to the clarification by the Supreme Court that the protected characteristic of sex (man and woman) in the Equality Act...
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Email your MP about the Supreme Court judgment
Make your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you.
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Send our briefing to organisations you know
Share our summary of the Supreme Court judgment and practical advice for organisations to think about when reviewing their policies and practices in light of this clarification of the law.
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Write to Peter Kyle – don’t let digital ID be gender self-ID
Write to Peter Kyle MP, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, to get the sex data problem in the Data Bill fixed.
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Crowdfund to stop abusive search policy
Sex Matters is seeking a judicial review of British Transport Police's searching policy.
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Respond to the EHRC consultation
Sex Matters is encouraging people to respond to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s consultation on its revised code of practice for services, public functions and associations (deadline Friday 3rd January).
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Support this landmark legal case
We need to raise £20,000 to support our intervention in the For Women Scotland appeal.
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General election – tell your candidates to stand up for single-sex services
In this general election, let’s make sure that every candidate knows we want them to stand up for sex-based rights. Our campaign pages have an action guide and resources to share.
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Submit evidence of bad guidance
The government’s Equality Hub wants evidence of guidance that wrongly suggests people have a legal right to access single-sex spaces and services according to their self-identified gender.
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URGENT: Ask your MP to support the bill!
It only takes two minutes.
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Comment on the schools guidance – even if you only have five minutes
Show your support, flag areas that need improvement and share your experience as a teacher or parent.
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Ask your MP to read our report and call for action now
Ask them to write to the Minister for Women and Equalities asking for urgent action to make the Equality Act clear.
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Treat yourself and support Sex Matters
Calling all loyal supporters of Sex Matters – it's time for a festive treat!
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Urgent: write to your MP to ban “modern conversion therapy”
Send them an email before the King’s speech on 7th November.
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Update your child’s school on the latest guidance
The Equality and Human Rights Commission updated its technical guidance on the Equality Act for schools in England and Scotland in October 2023.
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Stop the hate campaign against women
Will you sign our letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asking him to condemn the violence and intimidation against gender-critical women?
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Respond to the toilets consultation
Sex Matters’ guidance on how to respond to the government’s toilets consultation.
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Kickstart our next campaign
As we push the government to add one line to the legislation needed to make the Equality Act clear…
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Right now: write to your MP about the debate
The debate on our petition to make the Equality Act clear will be held in Westminster Hall on Monday 12th June. This is an important opportunity for MPs to discuss the issues and arguments on all sides. Afterwards a government minister will respond.
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Talk to medical schools about ‘Time to Think’
Do you have a personal contact with one of these medical schools? Can you help us make sure that this important book gets read?
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Send our guidance to a Welsh school
Sex Matters and Transgender Trend have revised their guidance on the Equality Act to cover schools in Wales.
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Write to your MP about the petition
Kishwer Falkner has written to Kemi Badenoch about the petition. Now you write to your MP about it.
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Send ‘Time to Think’ to the people who need to read it
Will you sponsor a copy?
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Email your MP: Say no to gender self-ID by the back door
The UK Government has to decide what to do about Scotland’s Gender Recognition Bill by 19th January. Email your MP today.
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Sign the petition to make the Equality Act clear
Will you join the 100,000 people who have already signed the petition?
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Shine a light on Stonewall (again!)
It's time to ask again for information from public-sector organisations that participate in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index scheme. We’ve made it easy – will you help?
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Single-sex services matter to me
Can you help us launch our report by sending us a picture of yourself?
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Gender-critical: your rights at work
The Equality Act 2010 protects people from being discriminated against at work because they have gender-critical beliefs. Employers need to understand that they have a responsibility to protect their gender-critical employees from discrimination and harassment.
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Send ‘Trans’ to a friend!
Helen Joyce’s book, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, is now out in paperback.
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Let your MP know the facts
Thank you to everyone who contacted their MP – 1,258 people.
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Send our guidance to a school you know
Sex Matters and Transgender Trend have published new guidance on the Equality Act for schools in England.
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Write to Monsoon
The Equality Act allows the provision of single-sex services, and we think Monsoon should rethink its policy.
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Respect my sex if you want my X
Sex Matters is supporting the campaign by Women Uniting and the Women’s Rights Network to encourage voters in the upcoming local elections on 5th May 2022 to challenge politicians to support women’s sex-based rights. The campaign will launch with more details at the Women Uniting website. Here are...
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Defend the Equality Act
Unaccountable lobbyists are trying to undermine the Equality Act behind the scenes. This isn’t how a democracy is supposed to work. Sign up NOW to support the independent equality watchdog in standing up to the lobbyists. It is time to #DefendTheEqualityAct.
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Single-sex services survey
The survey is now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is due to release guidance on single sex services imminently. We are collecting experiences: Tell us about why single sex services are important to you so that we can tell policy...
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#TalktoyourMP about conversion therapy
Thank you to everyone who took part in this campaign. The government is consulting on its proposal to “ban conversion therapy”. The consultation ended on 4th February. But it’s still worth setting up a meeting to talk to your MP. Tell them you are concerned that the proposed law will:...
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Respond to the conversion therapy consultation
Tell the government to press pause on its rush to criminalise "gender identity conversion therapy" for children. Wait for the Cass Review.
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Send an email to your MP – Press pause on conversion therapy law
The Government is trying to rush through a ban on “conversion therapy". But the proposed legislation risks criminalising parents, teachers, therapists, social workers and others, if they don’t affirm a child's gender self identity. It only takes a minute to send this message to your MP: tell the government...
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Sponsor your MP
This campaign has now finished. Thank you to everyone who sponsored a book – 1,185 copies were sent out. The MPs and MSPs below have not yet been sponsored to receive a copy of Trans by Helen Joyce – a hugely important book that clearly sets out the issues,...
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Sponsor a copy of ‘Trans’ book
Let's get a copy of Helen Joyce's book into the hands of the UK’s decision makers.
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Sign our letter – Call for a public inquiry
We are writing to the Committee on Standards in Public Life calling for a public inquiry into "Stonewall Law".