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Sex matters in life and in law. It shouldn't take courage to say so. https://t.co/MWfRBziEzz Press: press@sex-matters.org
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Nov 26 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The case being heard today (and tomorrow) by @UKSupremeCourt will test the legal uncertainty about how GRCs interact with the Equality Act.

There is no ambiguity, however, about the lawfulness of women’s sport 🧵 Whatever the outcome of the FWS case it is clear that female-only competition is lawful.

🔹The #EqualityAct, section 195, says that it is permissible to discriminate by sex in a sport in which the physical strength, stamina or physique of average persons of one sex would put them at a disadvantage compared to average persons of the other sex.

🔹It also makes specific provision to allow gender-reassignment discrimination wherever it is necessary to secure fair competition or the safety of competitors.

Any sport that runs separate competitive categories for men and women, or boys and girls, is relying on s.195 ⬇️Image
Oct 26 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Update from everyone!

The Sex Matters team spent last weekend at the Battle of Ideas in London. Helen Joyce at the Battle of Ideas The festival of public debate included around 100 lively discussions on big issues in politics, science, economics, culture, the law and more. Panels that touched on sex-based rights took place alongside sessions on riots, China, AI, cities, prisons, art, energy and education.
Oct 6 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Update from Helen!

Last weekend I attended the Bigger Picture conference held by @genspect in Lisbon. Helen Joyce speaking at the Genspect conference It was Genspect’s third conference in under 18 months – a remarkable achievement for a small, newish organisation and another step towards fighting back against the “gender affirming” model of healthcare for trans-identifying people…

genspect.org/the-bigger-pic…
Sep 4 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEW BLOG POST: on our schools model policy

Why "watch and wait" doesn't work for schools.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/… The draft DfE guidance says “Allow for watchful waiting: Wait for a period of time before considering a request, to ensure it is a sustained and properly thought through decision. This period of ‘watchful waiting’ may help to ensure unnecessary action is not undertaken.”
Sep 1 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Update from Fiona!

Over the past few weeks (even while Sex Matters was closed for a much-needed summer break!) we have been busy with the fallout from the scandal of male boxers in the women’s Olympic boxing. Update from Fiona - picture of Fiona McAnena in a rowing boat wearing a medal With Emma Hilton, and the rest of the team, I have been doing interviews, media briefings…

Aug 10 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Update from Maya!

Last year, while I was on a summer holiday, I was emailed by the Metropolitan Police and told I was under investigation for the crime of “Malicious Communications”. Now I’ve been told that the case has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service… Maya Forstater crossing her index fingers to symbolise XX chromosomes. My crime was to tweet about a male doctor who was presented to patients as a woman and allowed to examine them without their informed consent.

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Aug 8 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Today we ran a briefing on the facts and science behind the women’s boxing row at the #Olympics

Thanks to @DerryBanShee, @FondOfBeetles, @mara_yamauchi & @sharrond62 for speaking.

The full video is now available on our YouTube ⬇️
@DerryBanShee @FondOfBeetles @mara_yamauchi @sharrond62 Male advantage over females in sport is huge. You can see it in the Mixed 4 x 400 relay at the 2019 athletics World Championships – watch the best women in the world be overtaken easily. That’s male advantage.
Jul 30 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
On Thursday and Friday this week, the Olympics is expected to feature male boxers in the ring with women. And that’s after Zambia fielding a women’s football team suspected to include male players.

What’s going on at the Olympics? 🧵
The footballers were previously ruled out of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, supposedly because of high testosterone. In this context, “female with high testosterone” usually means male with female passport.
Jul 17 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The @EHRC has issued guidance that “a sex-based occupational requirement that a [job] applicant is a woman…will include women who are recorded female at birth and also transgender women who have obtained a GRC.”

We think this is wrong.

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sex-matters.org/posts/updates/… The EHRC says that when you say, print or broadcast that a job or service is for “women” you must by law mean

(♀️ - 📃)+ (♂️ + 📃)
Female people without a certificate saying male
+ male people with a certificate saying female.

This is nonsense



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Jun 14 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Breaking: @UN_Women says gender-critical activists are an “anti-rights movement” 🧵

@DerryBanShee in @thetimes:

“It’s a sad day when UN Women lectures women’s rights campaigners on the need to include men with transgender identities in our work.”

thetimes.com/uk/society/art… In an Insta post, UN Women claims that “anti-rights movements” – its deceptive label for sex-based rights campaigners – are on the rise Image
Apr 14 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Today is a good day to #buyapaper #CassReview

Show your support for the brave journalists who covered the subject before Cass made it less risky to do so, and the editors who stood up against ideological capture

🧵 @ObserverUK #CassReview

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Apr 9 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: #CassReview @TheCassReview demolishes the basis for the current model of treating gender-distressed children.

@NHSEngland has for too long has given vulnerable children harmful treatments for which there was no evidence base.

cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/upl…
Image #CassReview finds no evidence supporting the use of puberty blockers. She reminds GPs and pharmacists of their responsibilities too.

This is the end of paediatric gender medicine as we know it. Read @SexMattersOrg post.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
Apr 5 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
OUR BIG NEWS: Sex Matters is a charity!

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/… We are a human rights charity.

Our objectives are to :

- Promote human rights where they relate to biological sex
- Advance education about sex and the law
- Promote the sound administration of the law in relation to sex and equality in the law.

…of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search…
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Mar 22 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
Update from Maya!

On Monday, I went to an event at University College London, together with Shelley Charlesworth from Transgender Trend. Professor Davina Cooper was presenting on the findings of the Future of Legal Gender research project… Image …which received £750,000 in public funding from the Economic and Social Research Council.
Mar 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Amongst the people whose diligent work raised the alarm on puberty blockers: Sex Matters Board Member Dr Michael Biggs.

He discovered the Tavistock’s trial and started publishing on this in March 2019 with @Transgendertrd Trend.

transgendertrend.com/tavistock-expe…
Image His research was featured in the first critical article in the press @Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/0…
Mar 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: Senior figures across NHS and UK medical bodies disavow WPATH's approach to gender medicine.

#WPATH "Standards of Care" have shaped NHS policy and doctors practice for decades.

@mailonline #WPATHfiles

dailymail.co.uk/health/article… Now @DHSCgovuk claims '@NHSEngland moved away from WPATH guidelines more than 5 years ago"

@NHSEngland said: "While we are aware of WPATH standards... these do not determine NHS policy."

Scottish Government says @NHSScotland do not have a working relationship with WPATH
Mar 1 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The BBC’s director of complaints has ruled that Justin Webb broke the BBC’s rules on impartiality when he commented that “trans women” are male.

This is shocking behaviour from the BBC, which is obliged by its charter to be accurate & without bias.

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sex-matters.org/posts/updates/… Polling has shown that a third of people are confused about what “trans woman” means, so it was helpful and appropriate of Webb to explain. If this is not allowed, people will be confused and potentially misled by BBC news stories.

Feb 2 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Update from Maya!

This morning I gave a talk to the sixth form at Verulam School in St Albans. This is the second talk I have given at a school (the first one was to South Hampstead High School in London). Update from Maya - picture of Maya Forstater smiling Honestly, these are some of the most nerve-wracking things that I have done. Where do you start telling a story about employment tribunals to children for whom this is all part of the alien world of work? And how many think I am a bigot before I even walk in?
Jan 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW REPORT: 84% of Britons support female-only support services for women who are victims of domestic violence but the sector is in turmoil because of lack of clear laws.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/… 19 sector leaders were interviewed: many would only speak anonymously. They told us that they are under enormous pressure to compromise their services and not to speak up.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Dec 29, 2023 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Our director of advocacy @HJoyceGender did dozens of podcast interviews in 2023 with names both big and small, reaching millions of viewers and listeners around the world. 🧵 As the year winds to a close, curl up with a cuppa and catch up on some of Helen’s best commentary this year.
Nov 10, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Update from Maya and Helen!

Yesterday, together with Heather Binning from Women’s Rights Network, Standing for Women stewards Aja and DJ Lippy, feminist writer and activist Joan Smith and frontline worker Raquel Rosario Sánchez, we delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street. Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce on Parliament Square with Big Ben and a rainbow in the background, wearing blue Sex Matters T-shirts and holding “anti-women hate campaign” signs Nearly 15,000 women and men have signed the letter, including Dame Jenni Murray, Kathleen Stock OBE, Joan Smith, Karen Ingala Smith, Mara Yamauchi, Stephanie Davies-Arai BEM, Graham Linehan, John Boyne and James Dreyfus. Heather Binning, Aja, DJ Lippy, Maya Forstater, Joan Smith and Raquel Rosario Sánchez walking along Downing Street with a box full of letters.