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neuropoppins.bsky.social
Neuro Poppins
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#womensrights #transgender #transrights #sexmatters #terf #trans #gender #gendercritical #transphobia #genderideology #lgbtq
October 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM Everybody can reply
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neuropoppins.bsky.social
Neuro Poppins
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People with gender-related mental-health issues ought to be just as capable as others of following rules intended to protect others from humiliation, alarm and distress.

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#trans #gender #gendercritical #womensrights #transgender #transrights #sexmatters #terf
Combatting exposure and voyeurism
The Crime and Policing Bill is currently going through the House of Lords. It includes a clause that amends the exposure offence (“flashing”) in the
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October 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM Everybody can reply
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛
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I have not seen this before. The fact that Sex Matters is still called a "human rights charity" is a fucking joke.
sexmatters in life I in law LGB ALLIANCE Sir James Mackey CEO NHS England PO Box 16738 Redditch B97 9PT Copied to Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Transgender TREND. 88888889 No child is born in the wrong body Genspect 28th April 2025 Dear Sir James We write to you as campaigners for human rights and ethical medicine to urge you to immediately cancel the planned trial of puberty blockers, which has been made untenable by the recent judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. The judgment confirms that the correct interpretation of the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act 2010 is biological sex, not certificated sex (that is, what is written on a person's birth certificate, as modified by a gender-recognition certificate if they have one). As the Equality and Human Rights Commission has confirmed in an interim update published on 25th April, this means that spaces, services and associations provided for one sex only are not open to people of the other sex, either on the basis of gender reassignment (gender identity or being trans) or on the basis of possession of a gender-recognition certificate. Children under the care of all gender services, both NHS and private, must now be told that they will never be able to access spaces or services for the opposite sex, no matter what legal or medical steps they take now or in the future. Such children will, throughout their lives, need to use either the spaces and services designated for their own sex or an alternative provided for both sexes (mixed-sex or single-user) if available. This means that the entire premise of treatment with puberty blockers for gender dysphoria has fallen away. The drugs are intended to block gender-distressed children's natural puberty so that if they persist in cross-sex identification and progress to cross-sex hormones and perhaps surgery, they will "pass" better as the opposite sex. But passing as the opposite sex ceases to be a desirable goal to present to children when they will never be permitted to use spaces or services for the opposite sex, and may in future be restricted in employment in roles such as police officer or nurse which can involve intimate contact with others in situations where sex matters for those others' human rights. Instead it becomes a major, permanent social problem for those young people, since their future lives and freedoms will be seriously curtailed by being legally barred from using the other sex's spaces while appearing anomalous in those for their own sex. We have always argued that it was unethical and a breach of human-rights principles to treat young people's mental distress with major, unproven physical interventions with known harms (including to their adult sexual function and fertility), and to promise them that they could intrude on other people's privacy, safety and dignity as well as put their own safeguarding at risk by using spaces for the opposite sex. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled out the use of opposite-sex spaces, no promise can be made that medical treatment will enable a person to fit in or go unnoticed while using opposite-sex facilities. The use of these drugs on children too young to understand this is ethically untenable. We urge you to cancel the puberty-blocker trial and arrange for an urgent review of practices in paediatric gender clinics in light of the Supreme Court judgment. Yours sincerely Naomi Cunningham Sex Matters Kutu Bun Kate Barker LGB Alliance Stephanie Amirs Stephanie Davies-Arai Transgender Trend Jed Milly Stella O'Malley Genspect
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM Everybody can reply
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nevereverdave.bsky.social
NevereverDave.bsky.social
@nevereverdave.bsky.social
It is as stark as that!

#SexMatters
Law-Commission-Response-Sex-Matters-3-1-1 52. Thus it is clear that the GRA 2004 does not restrict the ordinary speech of people who know someone's sex because they knew them before transition, or because that information is in the public domain, or because it is obvious, and they can see it for themselves. In practice very few people (particularly "male to female" transitioners) are convincing as members of the opposite sex. A person's sex can remain clearly perceptible. Some people are also "out and proud" about being trans. Thus a trans person's ability to navigate the world does not depend on absolute secrecy about their sex, or on people believing that it is literally possible for someone to change sex, but on the conventions of politeness and mutual Lord Filkin, House of Lords, 29 Jan 2004: Column 411 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2004-01-13/debates/be6cf168-907a-4058-b47d-5e198f5b8a7c/OfficialReportOfTheGrandCommittee OnTheGender Recognition BillH! Baroness Hollis, House of Lords, 29 Jan 2004: Column 436 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/id200304/Idhansrd/vo040129/text/40129-30.htm Lord Carlile of Berriew, House of Lords, 29 Jan 2004: Column 409
October 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM Everybody can reply
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tony-silver.bsky.social
Tony Silver
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I don't think enough is made of Starmer appointing a SexMatters director into number 10 as comms manager.

Or that SexMatters wrote to NHSE asking for the blocker study to be cancelled because being trans in the UK with no rights is undesirable.

Letter here..
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights
The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM Everybody can reply
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕
@mimmymum.bsky.social
That’d be retired policewoman, Cathy Larkman, who’s a director of an anti-trans lobby group “Women’s Rights Network”?

Who’s also married with 3 kids and has, presumably, taken her husband’s last name? How would she like to be addressed only by her maiden name?
Catherine Larkman • 3rd Director and Policing lead at Women's Rights Network Swansea University • Women's Rights Network Greater Swansea Area • 184 connections WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK #WomensRightsNetwork SINGLE SEX SPACES - WHY? Are safety, dignity and privacy important for you, your mother, your daughter, your sister? Single sex spaces are being removed despite legal protections provided by The Equality Act - this is unlawful. Women and girls are losing their rights to single sex spaces in changing rooms, toilets (even in schools), hospital wards, prisons (even in showers) and rape crisis centres. Read more about Single Sex Spaces and why they matter at Sex Matters. #SaveOurSpaces seXmatters
September 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM Everybody can reply
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msvoddy.bsky.social
MsVoddy
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The case brought by ForWomenScotland, supported by SexMatters and the Lesbian Project, with Barrister Naomi Cunningham?
Who were the men?
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM Everybody can reply
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕
@mimmymum.bsky.social
FFS!!! The New ‘Executive Director of Communications’ - Tim Allen - was a Trustee at transphobic lobby group ‘Sex Matters’ until this morning!!! 😖😖😤

Don’t tell me the ‘trans lobby’ are powerful while transphobes sit in Number 10 Downing Street! 😠😡

👉🏻 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
seXmatters Tim Allan Tim's career has spanned working as a senior advisor in 10 Downing Street for Tony Blair, running corporate communications for BSkyB and founding a communications consultancy, Portland, which grew into one of the most highly regarded global reputation-management consultancies. Since selling Portland, he has become an investor in the communications consultancy sector. sexmatters Tim says: "Sex Matters is a remarkable success story. In its short history, it has significantly changed the public debate on the issues it cares about. It is highly influential and produces high-quality materials to inform key audiences. I have followed the legal and political debates about sex and gender very closely and am delighted at the opportunity to contribute to this vitally important charity." Update: Tim Allan served as a Trustee until 1st September 2025.
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM Everybody can reply
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nevereverdave.bsky.social
NevereverDave.bsky.social
@nevereverdave.bsky.social
@channel4news.bsky.social omit the #SexMatters connection from their bio. Seems #Starmer feels "underserved" by staffing. 🙄
September 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM Everybody can reply
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mayaofspring.bsky.social
Maya ☁️➡️🌸 (➡️🇸🇬➡️)
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Looking at the aesthetic state of our enemies vs our friends and despairing
sexmatters website: "Sex and the City of London: We've filed our case on the ponds!" TransActual post: "A community Living in Fear"
August 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM Everybody can reply
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nonbinary.computer
Orual
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She is not open to debate on trans issues. She has a fixed, extremely bigoted view. Her leadership role in SexMatters is indicative of this. The label is an accurate description. Her record is irrelevant to that. Frankly, being as bigoted as she is calls into question her reasoning more generally.
September 7, 2024 at 12:53 PM Everybody can reply
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chardhollis.bsky.social
chardhollis.bsky.social
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No, an interview. With a trustee of trans-hate group SexMatters.

If you want science, you actually have to read science journals.
May 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM Everybody can reply
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jessicaharriet.bsky.social
Jessica Harriet
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This is no longer a case of outside influence. SexMatters have been handed a partnership, redefining the EHRC's operational function and guiding their involvement in this orchestrated "course correction" of erasure.

This is a monumental scandal.
Excellent work by @tacc.org.uk
tacc.org.uk TACC @tacc.org.uk · Jul 1
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.

tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
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July 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM Everybody can reply
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missfreda.bsky.social
The Trans Lobby
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After reading the transcripts (from Tribunal Tweets) from the Dr Upton/ Nrs Peggie hearing, It seems clearer that the nurse was suspended because she targeted the Dr, long before the changing room incident. That was just where her lawyers (SexMatters) thought they could form a case or manipulate it.
February 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM Everybody can reply
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darkeden21.bsky.social
Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21
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SexMatters, ForWomenScotland, and LGB Alliance are being told a few days in advance of the ruling dropping.

Watch out for some suggestive gloating
March 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM Everybody can reply
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drchrispook.bsky.social
Chris Pook
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Such fantastic news from the UK.
#SexMatters #SexNotGender #AdultHumanFemale
April 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM Everybody can reply
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sexnotgender.bsky.social
@sexnotgender.bsky.social
Many ‘transwomen’ are actually straight men who are sexually aroused when people use she/her to describe them. It’s called Autogynephilia.
#sexmatters #factsmatter #datamatters
#biologymatters #WomenWontWheesht
February 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM Everybody can reply
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bernice.bsky.social
The Beautiful Bernice
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Barking mad! the Supreme Court travesty is nonsensical and scientifically illiterate garbage formed by SexMatters and the EHRC are completely insane bigots!
May 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM Everybody can reply
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debsnoise.bsky.social
Deb's Noise 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈
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The government is presumably still struggling to find a form of wording that appears, on its face, to ban SOGI change practices whilst still mandating them for trans kids in line with Cass/Sullivan/Streeting/SexMatters' desires. Quite a feat if they pull it off but UK media will happily look away
March 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM Everybody can reply
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David Lindsay
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Rather than talk about the #SupremeCourt 's ruling on the definition of sex, the first half of last night's #Newsnight was given over to fawning over someone who had been a "senior advisor to #KamalaHarris". #SexMatters #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2025/04/you-...
You Know Watt
Rather than talk about the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of sex, the first half of last night's  Newsnight  was given over to faw...
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April 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM Everybody can reply
chardhollis.bsky.social
chardhollis.bsky.social
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And a trustee of SexMatters.

If you want science, read a science journal. Not pick someone with letters after their name saying something you want to believe.
May 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM Everybody can reply
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Papillon19
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#sexmatters whining again
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July 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM Everybody can reply
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Anya Jabour
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My mission this week: Read @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES, write about Europeans who launched the scientific study of sex and the queer civil rights movement, and document Katharine Bement Davis’s role in it all! #sexmatters #intermediaries
May 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM Everybody can reply
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filiacharity.bsky.social
FiLiA
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A significant proportion of the FiLiA team and #FiLiA conference attendees are #Lesbians. We welcome the #SupremeCourt ruling and look forward to also receiving 'unequivocal solidarity' from #Pride

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#FiLiA2025 #SexMatters

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Political parties banned from Pride events after UK gender ruling
Birmingham, Brighton, London and Manchester suspend participation over lack of protection for trans rights
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM Everybody can reply
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gardeninginspain.bsky.social
Sandy (She/Her)🌱🪴🌹🍋🐝🌄🌅
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Probably from the anti trans, gender critical lobby group, "Sexmatters"?
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