The Charity Commission has confirmed that it has an ongoing regulatory compliance case into gender-critical charity Sex Matters.
Its confirmation arose following a complaint made to the regulator by Good Law Project’s founder Jolyon Maugham about the charity.
Maugham’s complaint concerned Sex Matters’ alleged decision to platform an activist, who had made personal comments about the lawyer.
In its response to Maugham’s complaint, the commission told the Good Law Project: “The issues you have raised have been passed to the regulatory compliance team to consider as part of our ongoing case into the charity.”
According to Sex Matters, the case was opened following data collection concerns raised in October 2024 when the charity posted a call for women to tell the charity about their experiences of men in women’s sport.
Sex Matters said the commission had been “keen to ensure the charity is operating as effectively as it can and that the trustees are taking appropriate steps to protect its reputation” and that the charity had supplied information to the regulator.
The charity said it was awaiting the commission’s response, adding that it was “confident that we are not unlawfully processing personal data when we undertake research and report on the impact of men in women’s sports”.
It also said it was not aware of the activist’s remarks regarding Maugham until his organisation had “brought them to public attention”.
The Good Law Project also recently issued a complaint to the regulator over Westminster-based think tank, Policy Exchange, accusing it of showing “an unhealthy obsession with trans issues, repeatedly advocating in favour of the rolling back of trans rights”.
The commission has since opened a regulatory compliance case into Policy Exchange in November 2025 after reviewing the complaint.
