Legal legerdemain

The pressure group Sex Matters reinvents the Equality Act to deny trans and non-binary children rights the legislation is supposed to protect.

The executive director of Sex Matters, Maya Forstater, has written an op-ed in The Times with the inflammatory title “Schools are at legal risk if they let pupils self-identify”. She claims that “thousands of secondary schools and colleges face potential court claims for allowing children to self-identify their gender or describe themselves as non-binar…