Conflict in protected characteristics
Conflicts arising in respect of different protected characteristics have come to the fore in a number of recent high profile cases, particular in the context of sex, sexual orientation and gender critical beliefs.
In this podcast, we discuss recent cases in this area, including Higgs v Farmor’s S…
Seen in Journalism - Episode Ten: Julie Bindel
In this powerful new episode, Cath and Julie Bindel revisit a forgotten moment in BBC history — the 2007 Hecklers debate — and ask whether such a programme could even be made today.
Eighteen years before the Cass Review, Julie was already warning about the dangers of gender medicalisation, the era…
Maya Forstater
Maya Forstater, a researcher, writer and advisor working on business and sustainable development and co-founder of Sex Matters, talks about having lost her job after tweeting and writing about sex and gender. She is the claimant in a landmark test case on whether the protected characteristic of be…
The rise of the workplace speech police
Debate recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Saturday 18 October at Church House, Westminster.
This week, Reform's Suella Braverman declared that if the party were elected to government it would 'repeal the Equality Act, because we are going to work to build a country defined by merito…
Episode 37: Maya Forstater, One year on from the SCR.
Maya reflects on the Supreme Court Ruling, and what has happened in the year since.
J.K. Rowling – Part One – Transformation
Hello and welcome to Origin Story. This week we begin the story of J.K. Rowling and how the world’s most beloved author became its most divisive. How did she become obsessed with trans rights and how did her colossal wealth and celebrity shape the backlash?
We’re telling two parallel stories. One…
In Conversation with Fiona McAnena
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Heather Binning is joined by Fiona McAnena - a woman who has spent years at the sharp end of the fight to restore and protect women's rights.After five years as Sports Campaigning Lead at Fair Play For Women, Fiona joined Sex Matters in 2024 as Director of Campaigns. In this conve…
Sex Does Matter- Just not to Amnesty International
This week on Informed Dissent, Jamie Reed sits down with Maya Forstater to talk conversion therapy law, the puberty blocker trial, and Amnesty International.
About Maya Forstater Maya Forstater is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Sex Matters. She became a public figure after losing her jo…
Communities Minister Gordon Lyons considers cutting future Féile funding after women’s rights network event cancelled
Nolan speaks with Communities Minister Gordon Lyons, Robin Moira White & Maya Forstater
Is the social contract between women and the State broken? - Women and the Law
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Is the social contract between women and the State broken? - Women and the Law - WRN National Conference 2026
Over the last decade+, public bodies and employers embedded policies and procedures that impacted women and girls and their relationship with those organisations. As the p…
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