Scottish Government to meet with gender-critical campaigners threatening legal action The Scottish Government has agreed to meet with gender critical campaigners who have threatened legal action The National (Scotland) · Jul 14, 2025
Row over transgender women swimming at Hampstead Heath ladies' pond set to reach High Court A series of judicial proceedings against other public bodies may also be on the cards following the landmark Supreme Court ruling on women Evening Standard · Jul 14, 2025
Who are Sex Matters? The group fighting to ban trans women from Hampstead Heath's 'ladies only' pond The controversial organisation does not recognise transgender identities Evening Standard · Jul 14, 2025
Gender critical campaigners demand action from government on toilet access Sex Matters have threatened legal action and demanded action by next Wednesday. Evening Standard · Jul 4, 2025
JK Rowling called our newspaper 'anti-woman'. Here's my response THIS week JK Rowling launched an attack on The National, describing us as an "anti-woman newspaper" ... The National (Scotland) · Jun 19, 2025
Scottish government faces legal action over failure to implement biological sex ruling Campaign group accuses Holyrood of ‘intolerable’ delays to new policies required after landmark case The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025
Supreme Court ruling has ‘changed landscape’ of Peggie tribunal – campaigner Sex Matters chief executive Maya Forstater and nurse Sandie Peggie met politicians during a visit to Holyrood on Wednesday. Evening Standard · Jun 18, 2025
Second group threatens new legal action over Scottish Government’s sex guidance AN ANTI-TRANS campaign group is threatening further legal action against the Scottish Government, saying ministers are failing to implement the… The National (Scotland) · Jun 18, 2025
Gender critical group threatens legal action over court judgment implementation Sex Matters has sent ministers a formal ‘letter before action’. Evening Standard · Jun 18, 2025
Most people think Supreme Court gender ruling was right, survey finds People were asked about sports, toilets and their views on the ruling in general in new survey Evening Standard · May 18, 2025
British Transport Police amends strip-searching policy after supreme court gender ruling Male officers would carry out searches on trans women, BTP says, as it ‘reviews implications of ruling’ The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025
Seek legal advice on NHS trans staff policy, gender-critical group urges Government THE Scottish Government has been urged to seek legal advice on a new NHS Scotland policy which would formally permit transgender staff to use… The National (Scotland) · Feb 19, 2025
No signs of distress after interaction with trans doctor, nurse tells tribunal Sandie Peggie was suspended after she complained about Dr Beth Upton sharing a female changing area in Victoria Hospital, Fife. Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2025
Supreme court urged to recognise ‘facts of biological reality’ in sex definition case Scottish campaigners challenge ruling that found it lawful for guidance to extend definition of ‘woman’ to trans women with GRC The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024
International Business Times UK · Nov 25, 2024 New British Transport Police Policy Allowing Transgender Officers To Strip Search Women Draws Outrage The BTP's new strip search policy for transgender officers has sparked backlash, with critics citing potential violations of women's rights and concerns over degrading treatment.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024 Guidance on treatment of transgender pupils poses legal risks, say unions Teachers and school leaders in England call government proposals vague, leaving them vulnerable to losing court cases
The National (Scotland) · Nov 21, 2023 Joanna Cherry calls for review into impacts of 'extreme trans rights activism' Ministers have been urged to hold a rapid review into “the impact of extreme trans rights activism on women’s rights”.
The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2023 Ministers urged to review impact of ‘extreme trans rights activism’ SNP MP Joanna Cherry called on the Government to condemn ‘violence and intimidation’ against women by trans rights campaigners.
Manchester Evening News · Jun 29, 2023 People’s History Museum issue apology after 'gender critical' group host boardroom meeting “We are deeply upset by the situation"
The National (Scotland) · Jun 7, 2023 Scottish Labour frontbencher pulls out of gender critical event after complaint Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow region, was due to hold an event titled “The Meaning of Sex Under the Equality Act 2010”
The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2023 Kemi Badenoch could rewrite law to allow trans exclusion from single-sex spaces Redefinition of sex as ‘biological sex’ in Equality Act would enable single-sex restrictions against trans people
The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023 Petition backed by JK Rowling to clarify Equality Act nets 100,000 signatures Campaigners want to update 2010 legislation to specify that ‘sex, male, female, man and woman mean biological sex’.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023 UK Athletics under fire over ‘inaccurate’ reading of law amid transgender plans The Equality and Human Rights Commission has criticised UKA after it said it was too risky to ban trans women from female events without a change in the law
Wales Online · Jul 14, 2022 '98 per cent of public want to keep separate toilets for men and women' Survey polled 7,000 people after some high street stores introduced gender-neutral loos to be more welcoming to transgender people
The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2022 Why gender identity should be left out of the ‘conversion therapy’ ban Letter: Evidence shows that the majority of gender-distressed children who are not ‘affirmed’ in their cross-sex identification outgrow those feelings, write Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce