We’ve collated a number of external reports which we hope you find useful. If you think we’ve missed an important report, please contact us.
LGB Alliance and Amarta Research
2025
The report explores the experiences and perspectives of LGB employees whose voices have been underrepresented in mainstream EDI discussions to better understand these perspectives and help senior leaders understand a wider range of perspectives and needs and develop EDI approaches that are legally compliant, inclusive, and responsive to workplace realities.
Matilda Gosling for Sex Matters and SEEN in Publishing
2025
This research investigates the working environment for authors, agents and publishing staff who believe that sex is binary and immutable, and that it matters in life and law. It was commissioned to investigate widespread but anecdotal reports that publishing has become a hostile environment for people who hold gender-critical beliefs.
The Lesbian Project
2023
The report investigates the extent to which lesbians as a subject of social and political concern in their own right, are disappearing from the LGBT+ movement, funding decisions, equalities organisations, data collection, academic research, and representation in UK social life.
Matilda Gosling and Diane Stoianov
2024
This review series was commissioned to enable The Lesbian Project to gain an overview of academic knowledge and policy implications relating to various aspects of lesbian well-being. This overview document is accompanied by six individual reviews that cover demography, public life, family and relationships, workplace, safety and health.
LGB Alliance Cymru
2025
Lesbian-Only Spaces provides an update to the 2022 advice for lesbians organising lesbian-only spaces and events following the Supreme Court ruling on For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers from Barrister Naomi Cunningham. It was commissioned by LGB Alliance Cymru and supported by Filia. The Legal Defence of Lesbian Spaces offers a summary short guide version.
Reem Alsalem
2024
The Special Rapporteur examines the forms of violence experienced by women and girls in sport, their causes and the perpetrators of this violence, and offers recommendations for better prevention and response to violence against women and girls in sport.
Professor Alice Sullivan
2025
An independent review commissioned in February 2024 by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with the aim of identifying obstacles to accurate data collection and research on sex and on gender identity in public bodies and in the research system and to set out good practice guidance for how to collect data on sex and gender identity.
Professor Alice Sullivan
2025
The review presents findings in two final reports. Report one concerned data and statistics and was published in March 2025 (Sullivan, 2025). Report two sets out to investigate and describe barriers to research on sex and gender identity, and to make recommendations to assist in addressing such barriers.
Sex Matters
2024
Sex Matters offers a wide resource of research, analysis, policy recommendations and surveys including the 2024 report, Women’s Services: A Sector Silenced which examines the effects of gender-identity beliefs on the women’s sector.
Dr Hilary Cass
2024
Commissioned by NHS England to make recommendations on how to improve NHS gender identity services and ensure that children and young people who are questioning their gender identity or experiencing gender dysphoria receive a high standard of care, that meets their needs, is safe, holistic and effective.
Jane Clare Jones with Lisa Mackenzie
2021
The Political Erasure of Sex is an overarching project which aims to document the process of policy capture in our public institutions, and how it is impacting the recognition and recording of biological sex in public policy, law, language, and data-collection.
Akua Reindorf KC
2020
Review of the circumstances resulting in and arising from the cancellation of the Centre for Criminology seminar on Trans Rights, Imprisonment and the Criminal Justice System, scheduled for 5 December 2019, and the arrangements for speaker invitations to the Holocaust Memorial Week event on the State of Antisemitism Today, scheduled for 30 January 2020.
Women's Rights Network
2025
The network of women from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, WRN, has produced a series of reports available to download on their website. These include their hospital report with Jo Phoenix, When we are at our most vulnerable which details the extent of rapes and sexual assaults in hospitals.