Author Archives - Woman's Place UK

Surrogacy Law Reform: WPUK meet with Law Commissions

Earlier this year, the Law Commission published proposals to update the existing laws on surrogacy. Currently, when a baby is born to a surrogate mother, the mother remains the...

A Woman’s Place is in the Press: a guest blog by Susanna Rustin

Susanna Rustin is a leader writer at the Guardian, where she writes mostly on social affairs and the environment. She has also worked as an editor on the opinion and...

WPUK: Israel & Palestine – Peace, Equality, Freedom, Justice

WPUK: Israel & Palestine Peace, Equality, Freedom, Justice October ’23 WPUK is a women’s rights campaign with a specific focus on women’s rights in the UK. Nevertheless, we...

Labour Women’s Declaration & FiLiA: Women on the move

The women’s liberation movement in Britain today is diverse and strong. There are myriad voices in conversation – and sometimes disagreement – with each other. Our movement is the...

Solidarity with Róisín Murphy

Solidarity with Róisín Murphy The audience members who tried to boo Sinéad O’Connor off stage when she performed at Bob Dylan’s tribute concert in 1992 were most likely to...

WPUK Statement in solidarity with Australian women

Women are not responsible for the actions of men or those who want to use the concerns women have for their own political ends. However, the presence of neo-Nazis...

Statement on the UK Government’s decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland)

We are pleased that both the Labour Party Leader, Keir Starmer and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Anneliese Dodds have voiced concern regarding the substance of...

Celebrating Scottish Women

The fight for women’s sex-based rights has been fiercely reignited in recent years. Our sisters North of the border have been faced with a government that ignores them, and...

GIDS interim service specifications: WPUK submission to NHS England

We broadly welcome the proposed NHS England’s direction of travel towards evidence-based trauma informed care for children and young people.

Eventbrite Woman’s Place UK

Last week, Woman’s Place UK’s next webinar ‘Defending Women’s Spaces‘ was removed by Eventbrite from its ticketing site. Woman’s Place UK has organised 31 public meetings, 11 webinars and...

Gender Recognition Reform Bill: Letters to Scottish Leaders

Gender Recognition Reform Bill Next Tuesday, the Parliamentary committee will spend another morning debating Stage 2 amendments to the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland). Ahead of the debate, Woman’s...

Attorney General affirms sex-based rights

Attorney General affirms sex-based rights Woman’s Place UK welcomes the clarifications on sex-based rights in the Equality Act (2010) made in the Attorney General’s speech to Policy Exchange. The...

WPUK & Billy Bragg

When Billy Bragg implied women fighting for sex-based rights were akin to Nazis, we invited him to a public discussion. He declined.

The Tavistock: children and young people

The Cass Independent Review has identified huge shortcomings in the provision of healthcare for children and young people with gender dysphoria at the Tavistock GIDS Centre. The Centre will...

Women and the Religious Right in the USA: Jayne Egerton

This article about women and the religious right in the USA first appeared in Issue 5 of The Radical Notion. It is shared here with permission. Introduction Women...

UNISON conference votes to silence women’s voices

UNISON, the trade union with a large membership in health, local government and education, has over 1.3 million members. The union says that over two thirds of them are...

Woman’s Place and Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker)

In Spring 2018 we decided to organise a meeting in Cornwall. As is the case with all our meetings, the panel of speakers was agreed in collaboration with local...

Oxford Mail: Right of Reply

Our response to misrepresentations of our campaign in the Oxford Mail.

Roe v Wade must stand

This was a speech given by Caroline Robinson at a protest in Edinburgh on 14th May 2022 in solidarity with US women whose abortion rights are under attack after...

Advice to US Women to Compromise on Abortion Rights Misses the Mark: Katherine M Acosta

Katherine M Acosta is a lifelong feminist, a sociologist, filmmaker and writer. Divided We Fall is her documentary about the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising, a weeks-long protest to save collective...