Maya Forstater, a researcher in the UK who lost her job at the Centre for Global Development (CGD) after tweeting that trans-identifying males cannot change their biological sex, has been awarded more than £100,000 in compensation for loss of income and injury to feelings.

By Amy Dykens

The pressure on embattled UK-based charity, Mermaids, continues to increase following an announcement by the Charity Commission that they would be pursuing a full-scale formal statutory inquiry into the charity.

Things are looking up for women in the UK.

Vulnerable women continue to get the short end of the stick in the growing conflict between women’s rights and transgender rights, particularly when it comes to female-only spaces and services.

A sixteen-year-old girl in the UK has described the horror of at-home abortion after a telehealth consultation miscalculated her gestation by 12 weeks.

Policy adjustments on behalf of trans people that materially reduce the safety of women in communal accommodation are the subject of increasing international controversy. On March 16th, Baroness Nicholson, addressed the UK’s House of Lords to demand the withdrawal of Annex B of the NHS’s 2019 Guidance on “Delivering same-sex accommodation” in UK hospitals. She argued that the dignity, safety and privacy of women needs to be brought back into the centre of public policy and treated as a priority.

Britain looks set to join Finland, Sweden, France and some US states in adopting a more cautious approach to the medical and surgical interventions for gender dysphoria in children, shifting emphasis instead to psychological evaluation and treatment.

Durham University in England has chosen to publically defend its decision to offer training sessions to assist its students in the sex industry, following a wave of media attention and criticism.

An 18 month review of sporting bodies released in the UK has found that transgender athletes competing as women retain innate performance advantages over females, even after transitioning.

A 26-year-old British woman with Down Syndrome, Heidi Crowter, recently took the Department of Health and Social Care to court, arguing that part of the UK’s Abortion Act was “discriminatory and violated the European Convention on Human Rights”.