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2025-11-13 16:02:05 UTC

Sex Matters evidence now being referred to in the High Court
https://sex-matters.org/posts/category/publications/legal-submissions/r-glp-and-others-v-ehrc/

2025-11-07 17:28:16 UTC

💥 Girl Guides faces legal action.
It is a “charity for the benefit of girls and young women” it exists to meet the specific needs of this group, which are different from the needs of boys and men with protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/girl-guides-trans-gender-wdd93j3gr

2025-11-06 13:18:28 UTC

“Look at the way you’re dressed, your makeup and clothes...”
“I put on some makeup ten minutes ago. I was female before!”
@npub1gl2…ff2q and Peter Tatchell clash over BBC bias on reporting of sex and gender (and Maya’s “gender identity”!)
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1986421212348661760/vid/avc1/1920x1080/voXxMfnHbLCRzmvg.mp4

2025-11-05 22:39:08 UTC

Sex and gender reporting at the BBC is neither accurate nor impartial.
We have been tracking and complaining about this for some time!
There is the endless coverage of drag...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5BhrVeXQAA2fyu.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5BkngrXgAAouQY.jpg

2025-10-30 22:26:31 UTC

The law is clear
But the government is insisting on a "regulatory impact assessment" into the burden it would place on businesses to have updated statutory guidance 🤦‍♀️
[@geri_e_l_scott](https://bird.makeup/users/geri_e_l_scott ) @npub1djc…pjyd
https://www.thetimes.com/article/d7cd9e2f-2635-409d-a624-a833611a09fc?shareToken=f3f89ea86fb5c264c18866395c93194d

2025-10-15 10:37:20 UTC

“This is trans activism dressed up as human rights advocacy.”
@npub1gl2…ff2q quoted in @npub19h7…lxhj on Michael O’Flaherty (Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights) writing to the UK @npub1nvg…e8n0 and @npub1zj5…yunh 👇
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/uk-treatment-of-trans-people-may-breach-human-rights/

2025-10-13 08:03:48 UTC

Labour's digital ID card may let people choose their own gender" MPs are warned.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15186009/amp/Labours-digital-ID-card-let-people-choose-gender-MPs-warned.html
@npub1naf…g3r3 [@sammerriman_](https://bird.makeup/users/sammerriman_ )

2025-09-29 07:48:21 UTC

“I think she’s going to find that you can’t sit on the fence... The real win is when ordinary people can say these things.”
@npub14jg…hfgj speaks to @npub1hsz…rw78 about Emma Watson’s comments about JK Rowling.
📺 https://youtu.be/r2OGEITYe2Y
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1972567942127628288/vid/avc1/1920x1080/NG34eYG_KaOE5Eog.mp4

2025-09-08 10:24:56 UTC

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Read more: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/paul-givan-i-have-ordered-the-immediate-removal-of-trans-guidance-for-schools-in-northern-ireland-5306488

2025-09-08 09:18:17 UTC

“Telling children they can change sex is not the kind thing to do, and it’s a safeguarding risk to confuse children about reality.”
@npub14jg…hfgj speaks to @npub1xp6…pesa on @npub1xp5…mqe6 about the Northern Ireland education minister coming out for sex-based policies.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1964979065619656704/vid/avc1/1070x1506/GN-PtptEhzaqhnKW.mp4

2025-08-07 19:41:06 UTC

EHRC to send revised Code of Practice to minister by end of August “our code will remain consistent with the law as set out by the Supreme Court.” https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trans-women-single-sex-spaces-ban-lr3hbgjzs

2025-08-04 21:16:33 UTC

Breaking: M&S apologises for trans-identifying male staff member’s approach to teenage girl in lingerie section
@npub14jg…hfgj spoke to [@daniel_j_martin](https://bird.makeup/users/daniel_j_martin ) in the @Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/04/ms-apologises-over-trans-employee-in-bra-department/

2025-07-31 15:47:15 UTC

Congratulations to Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson.
The @npub18fu…0g0u has a crucial job to ensure the Equality Act is understood and enforced, to protect everyone from unlawful discrimination.
https://bird.makeup/users/oeogovuk/statuses/1950929916922417165
#note1ske…zmgu

2025-07-18 17:04:45 UTC

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Over Christmas Sandie had received a call from the hospital telling her that there had been a “serious complaint” about her.
A few days later she was told she had been formally suspended and could not go back to work until an internal investigation had been completed (she was cleared by that investigation just this week).
https://x.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1945383367353987181

2025-07-18 17:04:45 UTC

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By the time we spoke in January 2024, Sandie had been off work and had no correspondence from the hospital for nearly three weeks.
She hadn’t been following the gender debate. She didn’t know about my case.
She just knew it was wrong to deprive her of privacy and dignity when changing at work.

2025-07-18 17:04:44 UTC

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On Christmas Eve Sandie had started her period unexpectedly, and went into the changing room embarrassed that she might have bled on her trousers.
She encountered Beth again. This time Sandie spoke up.

2025-07-18 17:04:44 UTC

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When she told me over the phone about this confrontation, I didn’t know how small Sandie is, or about her history of being sexually assaulted by a doctor as a young woman (which came out in the tribunal). But I could hear her voice shake. She was angry, shocked and frightened. Her trade union wasn’t helping and she didn’t know where to turn.

2025-07-18 17:04:43 UTC

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I first heard about Sandie’s case in January 2024, when @npub12ek…6gyw sent Sex Matters a message:
“Hi folks, I have a constituent who has been a staff nurse in our local A&E for over 20 years. She has been suspended for requesting privacy in the changing room. She’s premenopausal and found herself in a bit of a bind. A doctor who is a trans-identifying man refused to give her privacy and claimed her request was bullying. Many colleagues share her concerns, but are too frightened to say anything. Looks like her employer is misinformed of the law and her union RCN appears to be offering very weak support.”

2025-07-18 17:04:43 UTC

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Sandie spoke to me two days later and told me her shocking story.
She had been half-undressed in the changing room when the young trans-identifying male doctor known as Beth walked in.
The next day she asked her line manager for help. Her line manager said she understood and would sort things out. But the second time it happened, the line manager said she had called equality and diversity and was told Beth could continue getting changed in the female changing room.

2025-07-18 17:04:42 UTC

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Many more have been following online, reading @npub1apl…cl54 or watching the daily reports by Dr Michael Foran:
#note1xyu…klmg

2025-07-18 17:04:41 UTC

Update from Maya!
The tribunal of Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife resumed this week, and I am in Dundee to watch some of the hearing, with Sandie and her family, and with supporters from Scotland and beyond.
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2025-06-26 19:29:06 UTC

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One pond swimmer told us about how she was showering outside when a man with a wig and a long coat walked up and stood between her and her towel.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/26/hampstead-ladies-pond-swimmers-accuse-trans-women-spying/
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2025-06-26 19:29:06 UTC

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2025-06-26 19:25:07 UTC

💥 Sex Matters has sent a letter before action to @npub1zvu…sryp over their failure to take heed of the Supreme Court's judgment and ensure the Kenwood Ladies Pond is for women only.
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2025-06-26 19:25:07 UTC

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The legal letter says that the current policy ‘violates the dignity of women using the Ladies’ Pond’ and that the Corporation is ‘operating it unlawfully by allowing trans identifying males to access it’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14851251/amp/Hampstead-Heath-Ladies-Pond-legal-action-ban-trans-women-Supreme-Court.html

2025-06-18 09:57:34 UTC

Women’s group threatens legal action over single-sex spaces @npub1vyd…dytf
“Sex Matters is urging the Scottish government to implement the Supreme Court ruling "in full, and without delay".”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4w07k17ygo.amp

2025-05-30 19:20:43 UTC

Don't let trans rapists choose gender says @npub1daf…ucu6 @npub1fnq…qck7
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/30/dont-let-trans-rapists-choose-gender-un-warns-police/

2025-05-26 10:05:07 UTC

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You don’t have to write something long, but write something!
Here is the tool again to send the email 👇
https://sex-matters.org/take-action/email-your-mp-about-the-supreme-court-judgment/

2025-05-26 10:05:06 UTC

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Whether you are a parent, professional, participant in sports, user of services, service provider, employer, or just an ordinary woman or a man, tell them why you appreciate the judgment’s legal clarity, and how ambiguity and fear have caused harm.

2025-05-26 10:05:06 UTC

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Please write to your MP and make sure they hear personal stories about why clarity about sex in law and policy is so important.

2025-05-26 10:05:05 UTC

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The judgment is powerful and clear, but a lot of people are trying to convince organisations to ignore it and continue letting them bend the rules.
https://sex-matters.org/take-action/email-your-mp-about-the-supreme-court-judgment/

2025-05-26 10:05:05 UTC

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This week we published polling by YouGov that shows most people agree with the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision. But MPs’ inboxes are being flooded by trans-rights activists spreading misinformation.
https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/poll-shows-public-support-for-the-supreme-court-decision/

2025-05-26 10:05:04 UTC

Update from Maya!
If you haven’t yet written to your MP about the Supreme Court ruling, please do it now using our tool! Even if you have, you can write to them again.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gr3eq4NXkAAKb0s.jpg

2025-05-22 16:11:24 UTC

💥New police @npub1fa3…3zqt searching guidance following Supreme Court judgment
It makes clear that strip searches should be carried out by police officers and staff of the same biological sex as the detained person.
https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/new-police-search-guidance-following-supreme-court-decision

2025-05-21 18:51:43 UTC

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Some trans people argue that they need to use opposite-sex facilities or they will be "outed".
But using opposite-sex facilities infringes on the rights of the people they are intended for.
The EqA addresses the conflict of rights. Her rights v his rights and says "no".
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrfmBNLWoAAXwMF.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:42 UTC

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Different configurations of options are all within the bounds of Article 8.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Grfl35RXcAEh-9l.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:41 UTC

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Separate sex facilities protect bodily privacy and autonomy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrfloKxWwAAUQBo.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:41 UTC

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Unisex (single-user) facilities avoid this questions.
They protect everyone's information privacy.
But many people (particularly women) prefer more privacy from the opposite-sex.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Grfkxg8WkAAUtur.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:40 UTC

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Having the protected characteristic of "gender reassignment" does not change a person's sex (and does not require surgery etc...)
Other people can often tell, or have a right to know whether they will be sharing a space with people of the same sex or both sexes.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrfkpF1WMAA0NRA.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:39 UTC

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The Supreme Court confirmed that when the Equality Act says "sex" it means what it has always meant: the biological fact of being male or female.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrfkYbCWgAAcY2Y.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:38 UTC

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Article 8 is a qualified right.
It is important to read 8(2)... there are lots of situations where it is lawful to put limits on a person's privacy and their freedom to do what they want.
Those limitations should be in line with the law.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrfjEmLWQAAv6BH.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:38 UTC

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The Equality Act 2010 and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 are laws that limit people's freedom.
The Equality Act outlaws sex discrimination but allows single-sex services.
The HSWA includes responsibilities related to toilets at work.
This engages Art 8 and Art 8(2)
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2025-05-21 18:51:37 UTC

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Everyone has the same protection for their human rights, whether they are male or female, trans or not-trans.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Grfi6MeWYAAeAqH.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:36 UTC

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Article 8 concerns the right to respect for private and family life.
It is quite wide ranging.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrfihD7WIAAt7Ne.jpg

2025-05-21 18:51:35 UTC

Lets talk about Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and toilets
It is sometimes argued that Art 8 gives trans people the human right to use opposite-sex facilites.
Is that right?
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2025-05-21 11:17:02 UTC

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Regarding the “clarification” at 6:27.
Helen stated in her interview that the Supreme Court judgment related only to the Equality Act.
https://bird.makeup/@hjoycegender/1925144817266311389

2025-05-21 10:39:21 UTC

“The law hasn't changed… the Supreme Court has given clarity to the meaning of the word “sex” that some duty-bearers were choosing to ignore.”
Full clip of Baroness Kishwer Falkner (@KishwerFalkner) speaking to @npub1acm…pcxe on @npub1y90…l8t5 📻
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1925134286908207104/vid/avc1/888x1578/h_EChjcfyDoIjbwe.mp4?tag=21

2025-05-19 07:09:48 UTC

Most people think the Supreme Court got it right, survey shows. @npub1xzu…ml98
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supreme-court-trans-public-opinion-b2753173.html

2025-05-18 18:04:07 UTC

BREAKING: Polls show public back the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex.
Half of Labour voters back Supreme Court ruling. Only 28 per cent oppose the judgment.
[@geri_e_l_scott](https://bird.makeup/users/geri_e_l_scott ) @npub1djc…pjyd @npub1cz4…ssr2
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2025-05-03 17:10:53 UTC

“Civil servants who find a law that was passed by Parliament in 2010 ‘impossible to implement’ because of their own fringe belief system should resign and stop collecting a public salary.”
@npub1gl2…ff2q on the PCS union's statement against EHRC update👇
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/03/civil-servants-defy-official-trans-guidance/

2025-05-02 19:21:09 UTC

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Stonewall accused of misleading public over Supreme Court ruling @npub1djc…pjyd
@npub12qe…0240: “The judgment of the Supreme Court is the law. It has immediate effect. It is not optional.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/stonewall-lgbt-charity-misleading-public-supreme-court-ruling-b79rgs52k

2025-05-02 16:48:41 UTC

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.@npub1gl2…ff2q: “Stonewall remains an influential institution, which has the legitimacy of charitable status. It should not be encouraging employers, service providers, sports governing bodies or individuals to ignore or flout the law.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/02/stonewall-charity-status-threat-unless-respect-trans-ruling/

2025-05-02 16:48:09 UTC

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https://sex-matters.org/posts/publications/letter-to-stonewall-ceo-and-chair/

2025-05-02 16:45:22 UTC

Dear Simon Blake,
Stonewall is acting irresponsibly and contravening its charitable objects by claiming wrongly that the #SupremeCourt FWS judgment is not the law.
We will refer @npub12cy…2e52 to the Charity Commission unless it retracts this statement.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gp9OEa8XQAAR3vU.jpg

2025-04-22 19:31:13 UTC

We have written to [@keir_starmer](https://bird.makeup/users/keir_starmer ) urging him to condemn the harassment, discrimination, violence and intimidation suffered by women over the weekend.
We hope that the Prime Minister will meet with us, and with @npub1nhj…du8w and @npub1346…4mhq, to talk about next steps following the #SupremeCourt judgment.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpKUG4nWUAAqMyU.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpKUG4nWAAANVOH.jpg

2025-04-03 15:38:42 UTC

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“There is never justice, these doctors are never held to account,” she said. “I’m not even hoping for that. It is so impossible in my opinion but I would love it.”
More in @npub1djc…pjyd ⤵️
https://www.thetimes.com/article/e04d82c8-bd23-4301-9c1a-8db8491f1a91?shareToken=4ff8dc9321242712dd774a0da5cdfa42

2025-04-03 15:33:06 UTC

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Headline in response to this question 👇
https://bird.makeup/@jo_bartosch/1907435514027786342

2025-04-03 15:31:24 UTC

"Joyce said institutions that had been “captured” by trans ideology were run by “ppl in leadership positions who are cowards... all getting their high salary for, as far as I can tell, not very much.”
@npub1fnq…qck7 report on @npub17kr…pllz at @npub1p0h…2n89 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/02/jail-doctors-trans-surgery-young-people-says-helen-joyce-uk/

2025-04-01 08:45:41 UTC

Complaints about transgender people using NHS single sex toilets
“Statistics released under freedom of information laws show 16 complaints have been lodged with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in the past five years.” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14550365/Health-boards-16-complaints-transgender-people-using-NHS-single-sex-toilets.html?ito=native_share_article-top

2025-03-06 18:02:36 UTC

🚨 Another interesting belief discrimination case starts Monday.
👮 The employer is the Met Police 👀
🥷As in the Peggie case the respondent has put in a “Rule 49” application for witness anonymity
👩‍⚖️ We have asked to intervene to make the case for open justice.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlYD541WMAARUW-.jpg

2025-03-03 12:08:00 UTC

EXCLUSIVE: Digital ID flaws risk Post Office-scale scandal, peer warns [@geri_e_l_scott](https://bird.makeup/users/geri_e_l_scott ) @npub1djc…pjyd
"There are no safeguards to stop them providing ambiguous and outright wrong data." 🔗👇
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlHVgNjWgAAYte4.jpg

2025-02-09 19:01:32 UTC

NHS gives trans men access to egg freezing denied to millions of women
@npub17kr…pllz in @npub1fnq…qck7
“The NHS is selling a fantasy. Although it may work out for a few, for the majority it won’t.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjXiPMRWIAEevP7.jpg

2025-02-07 21:11:42 UTC

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I was called to give evidence because the hospital board and doctor refused to accept as agreed facts that men and women are different when it comes to the propensity for violence and sexual crimes, and that this difference remains despite identity claims.

2025-02-07 21:11:42 UTC

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You can read my witness statement, which states the bleeding obvious. I also gave evidence on the fact that some men who identify as “transwomen” are manifesting a specific paraphilia.
https://sex-matters.org/posts/other-resources/witness-statement-of-maya-forstater-in-sandie-peggie-v-nhs-fife-and-dr-elizabeth-upton

2025-02-07 21:11:41 UTC

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(With fortuitous timing, Smith’s excellent new book
(Un)Kind: How ‘Be Kind’ Entrenches Sexism, came out on 6th February; you can read my colleague Helen Joyce’s review for The Critic here👇)
https://thecritic.co.uk/being-cruel-to-women/

2025-02-07 21:11:41 UTC

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As I was to be a witness, I wasn’t allowed to watch Sandie’s evidence session. I waited with her mum and sister who told me something of what she has been through. I told them how many women and men stand behind Sandie.

2025-02-07 21:11:40 UTC

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Instead it put her in a situation where a male colleague could undress in front of her and then accuse her of harassment when she complained.

2025-02-07 21:11:40 UTC

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Victoria Smith @npub1ecm…keew has written an excellent article about the bullying and hectoring of Sandie by the respondent’s lawyer, who told her: “You could have chosen not to say anything.”
https://glosswitch.substack.com/p/the-invisible-work-of-saying-nothing

2025-02-07 21:11:39 UTC

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Sandie is a nurse who should have been able to expect her employer to protect her from sexual harassment and to provide a safe workplace.
https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/24914478.sandie-peggie-tribunal-no-distress-trans-doctor-incident/

2025-02-07 21:11:39 UTC

Update from Maya!
This week I have been in Dundee at the tribunal hearing of Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjNqRggWYAAulWQ.png

2025-01-31 17:02:53 UTC

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Sex Matters has released a two-page briefing to help employers understand the law and best practice.
🔗 http://sex-matters.org/posts/publications/workplace-toilets-for-women-and-men-briefing-for-employers/
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2025-01-31 17:02:52 UTC

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91% of people say that public spaces should include separate toilets for men and women.
Only 5% say facilities should all be gender-neutral.
Women in particular prefer single-sex facilities, with 56% saying they feel uncomfortable in gender-neutral toilets.

2025-01-31 17:02:52 UTC

A new poll from @npub1cz4…ssr2 reveals that support for mixed-sex toilets is at its lowest level in five years 🧵
https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/support-for-gender-neutral-toilets-falls/