Opinion: The Office for Students should appeal against the flawed Sussex free-speech ruling, says Maya Forstater #freespeech #OfS #academicsky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-should-appeal-against-flawed-sussex-free-speech-ruling
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“It is clear that taking no action at the moment is not a lawful option for the Scottish government.” We will go to court again if ministers do not act. Read more in @thetimes ⤵️ www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Obey Supreme Court on sex or we’ll sue again, feminists warn SNP
Gender-critical campaigners have urged Holyrood to take steps to prevent men from entering female-only spaces
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Providing single sex services with confidence: a template for clear guidance sex-matters.org/posts/update...
A template for clear guidance - Sex Matters
It is simple What about enforcement? The single-sex and separate-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act should be straightforward and easy to apply. But they have become entangled in misundersta...
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TAKE ACTION: Email your MP! Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action. Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it. sex-matters.org/take-action/...
Email your MP about the Supreme Court judgment - Sex Matters
Make your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you.
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Guess again 🙄 Lot of imagination going on here 🤣
Erica (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️⚧️@transnormative.bsky.social · last yr.Wow, this is incredible. Sex Matters met with three commissioners to plan strategy for the UK Supreme Court Case together. This is proof of collusion. They redact the two commissioners who aren't Falkner, but I would bet I can guess their names: * Akua Reindorf * Alasdair Henderson
Following the #SupremeCourt ruling, everyone wants to talk about toilets. The Equality Act, and this judgment, are about much more than toilets. But toilets are important. Sex Matters' latest blog answers the most common questions. 👇 sex-matters.org/posts/update...
The truth about toilets - Sex Matters
Does the Equality Act say that male and female toilets always have to be provided? Does that mean that single-sex toilets do not have to be provided? What does the Equality Act say about toilets? W...
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Following the #SupremeCourt ruling, everyone wants to talk about toilets. The Equality Act, and this judgment, are about much more than toilets. But toilets are important. Sex Matters' latest blog answers the most common questions. 👇 sex-matters.org/posts/update...
The truth about toilets - Sex Matters
Does the Equality Act say that male and female toilets always have to be provided? Does that mean that single-sex toilets do not have to be provided? What does the Equality Act say about toilets? W...
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“Those provisions were always there, but the Supreme Court has set that out beyond a doubt.” Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment. Great to hear! 🙏
Right now a lot of people need to change their mind about the protected characteristic of sex. The legal accepted wisdom was wrong. Naomi Cunningham wrote about changing her mind on this in 2022 after some late night debates... sex-matters.org/posts/update...
Being wrong about sex - Sex Matters
By Naomi Cunningham, Sex Matters Chair
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We had precooked two statements: one for a win and one for a loss. We didn’t dare hope the result would be better than 8 on our scale – roughly, an FWS win, but with comments designed to deflect criticism from those opposed to sex-based rights.
Excellent interview with @naomicunningham.bsky.social who I am privileged and proud to work with. www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Naomi Cunningham: I’m fuelled by rage, and I’ve been lucky
As the issue of sex and gender plays out in UK courts and judges wrestle with the vexed question of ‘what is a woman’, b...
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EXCLUSIVE in @thetimes.com: Digital ID flaws risk Post Office-scale scandal, peer Lord Arbuthnot warns "There are no safeguards to stop them providing ambiguous and outright wrong data." 👇
Interesting to see the RCOG launching a women's health research priorities project. But baffling that it includes the premises that "not everyone who needs women's service is a woman..." The study is described as about on the concerns of "women and people" Sorry, what?
Times leader unequivocal that right thing to do to is to scrap the puberty blocker trial. www.thetimes.com/article/4f30... Some trials are just not ethical. #firstdonoharm @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social The majority of the public are against medical interventions on children who ID as trans
NHS puberty blockers trial would turn children into guinea pigs
The planned study must be stopped. Puberty is not an optional extra in a healthy human being’s biological life plan
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"It’s as if the NHS was planning a trial of lobotomies ... even worse because the test subjects are children. It seems that £10 million of public money is going to be spent on this unethical experiment." ✍️Helen Joyce on the puberty blocker trial 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
NHS to launch £10.7 million trial of puberty blockers
Puberty blockers were ‘indefinitely’ banned across the UK last year for children identifying as transgender, due to fears they are unsafe and harm development
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Good to see @AshReganALBA for raising British Transport Police searching policy in the Scottish Parliament. This policy violates the human rights of the most vulnerable women. Please support Sex Matters legal challenge➡️https://sex-matters.org/take-action/crowdfund-to-stop-abusive-search-policy/
Wondering about the law on single-sex facilities? Excellent guide downloadable from legalfeminist.org.uk
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Time for the Health and Safety Executive to step up - Sex Matters
Toilets and changing rooms Showers The Sandie Peggie case has shone a spotlight on workplace health and safety regulations that require employers to provide adequate (generally separate) facilities fo...
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Sex Matters has written to The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to demand that it does more to enforce the 1992 regulations on separate-sex facilities following the tribunal brought by nurse Sandie Peggie.
Sir Keir keeps talking about “safe” spaces instead of “single-sex” spaces. This doesn't reflect the Manifesto wording. To reassure women that they are taking their rights seriously politicians must talk about single-sex services 👇 sex-matters.org/posts/stand-...
Why this is not about “safe spaces” - Sex Matters
Sir Keir Starmer keeps talking about “safe” spaces instead of “single-sex” spaces. He said it most recently on LBC, although he also said “single-sex” when referring to NHS policy on hospital wards. ...
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It has been another extraordinary week of fallout from the Sandie Peggie case, which escalated as the week went on.
Stonewall used to insist that refusing to accept someone's "trans" identity — refusing to pretend to believe that they are the opposite sex from their real sex — was "transphobic". Stonewall's definition of "transphobia" has been written into countless workplace policies.
Sending our huge gratitude to the formidable Women of For Women Scotland for their tenacity and persistence! 🔗 forwomen.scot/29/11/2024/u... Thank you for speaking at #FiLiA2023, the #FiLiA education session & all the support in #Glasgow #Sisterhood and #Solidarity #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
Have any mainstream civil society orgs said anything about the Supreme Court? Either backing Amnesty's intervention or anything else? The integrity of sex discrimination protections and gender reassignment discrimination protection you would think would be important?!
“What does ‘woman’ mean?” Useful write up by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social of a consequential case before the UK Supreme Court this week rozenberg.substack.com/p/what-does-...
What does ‘woman’ mean?
That’s what the UK Supreme Court is being asked to decide
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