Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialTimes Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Opinion: The Office for Students should appeal against the flawed Sussex free-speech ruling, says Maya Forstater #freespeech #OfS #academicsky www.timeshighereducation.com/opinio… 122
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 18/06/2025“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/...thetimes.comObey Supreme Court on sex or we’ll sue again, feminists warn SNPGender-critical campaigners have urged Holyrood to take steps to prevent men from entering female-only spaces 53611
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Providing single sex services with confidence: a template for clear guidance sex-matters.org/posts/update...sex-matters.orgA template for clear guidance - Sex MattersIt 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... 35725
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialLaura Pascal @pascallaura.bsky.social · 24/05/2025TAKE 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/...sex-matters.orgEmail your MP about the Supreme Court judgment - Sex MattersMake your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you. 105130
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Guess again 🙄 Lot of imagination going on here 🤣 6202
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialforstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Following 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...sex-matters.orgThe truth about toilets - Sex MattersDoes 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... 2173
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Following 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...sex-matters.orgThe truth about toilets - Sex MattersDoes 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... 2173
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 22/04/2025“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! 🙏 45017
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Right 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...sex-matters.orgBeing wrong about sex - Sex MattersBy Naomi Cunningham, Sex Matters Chair 4348
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialforstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 19/04/2025We 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. 1163
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 19/04/202516th April 2025, the day women in the UK got their rights back. 86818
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Excellent interview with @naomicunningham.bsky.social who I am privileged and proud to work with. www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...holyrood.comNaomi Cunningham: I’m fuelled by rage, and I’ve been luckyAs the issue of sex and gender plays out in UK courts and judges wrestle with the vexed question of ‘what is a woman’, b... 1215
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 03/03/2025EXCLUSIVE 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." 👇 1136
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Interesting 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? 140
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialLaura Pascal @pascallaura.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Times 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 transthetimes.comNHS puberty blockers trial would turn children into guinea pigsThe planned study must be stopped. Puberty is not an optional extra in a healthy human being’s biological life plan 12211
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 28/02/2025"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...thetimes.comNHS to launch £10.7 million trial of puberty blockersPuberty blockers were ‘indefinitely’ banned across the UK last year for children identifying as transgender, due to fears they are unsafe and harm development 084
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Good 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/ 061
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialAudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025New legal guide about UK law re changing rooms and toilets at work by us at Legal Feminist www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/02/26/s...legalfeminist.org.ukSOMETHING FOR EVERYONE -A GUIDE TO NAVIGATING UK LAW ON SINGLE-SEX TOILET, WASHING & CHANGING FACILITIES IN WORKPLACES & IN SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC 0125
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Wondering about the law on single-sex facilities? Excellent guide downloadable from legalfeminist.org.uklegalfeminist.org.uk- 050
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 26/02/2025sex-matters.org/posts/update...sex-matters.orgTime for the Health and Safety Executive to step up - Sex MattersToilets 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... 051
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Sex 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. 161
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 25/02/2025sex-matters.org/take-action/...sex-matters.orgCrowdfund to stop abusive search policy - Sex MattersSex Matters is seeking a judicial review of British Transport Police's searching policy. 012
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Sir 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-...sex-matters.orgWhy this is not about “safe spaces” - Sex MattersSir 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. ... 063
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 23/02/2025It has been another extraordinary week of fallout from the Sandie Peggie case, which escalated as the week went on. 272
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialNaomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Stonewall 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. 58313
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialFiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Sending 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 02911
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Have 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?! 060
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialRichard Garside @richardjgarside.bsky.social · 25/11/2024“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-...rozenberg.substack.comWhat does ‘woman’ mean?That’s what the UK Supreme Court is being asked to decide 0128
Reposted by @forstater.bsky.socialWoman’s Place UK @womansplaceuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024A Woman’s Place is on Bluesky 🦋 Our starter pack. Please dm/tag us to be added #DefendingWomensSpaces #WPUKIcons go.bsky.app/RcHraGi 238733
forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 06/09/2024Obviously 🙄 . You wouldn't want to hear anything you might disagree with. God forbid! 9121
