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WPUK Mythbusters – A response to the IRR and others

There have been several articles and comments published recently, including one by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), which attempt to discredit 'gender critical' (GC) feminism. These include claims...

Correcting The National Wales

On Saturday 6th March, The National Wales, published an article which reported that Helen Mary Jones, a Plaid Cymru AM had been accused of transphobia. One example of this...

What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls

What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls: One woman’s take by Callie Burt Biden’s Executive Order 13988: neither surprising nor good for women and girls On...

WPUK, Lush and Pink News

WPUK corrects Pink News We are aware of a report about WPUK funding on a site which purports to publish news articles. We do not consider this site to be...

WPUK Myth busters

From the earliest days of our campaign, WPUK has faced smears, slurs, and lies intended to discredit us. We’re busy women so we don’t have time to write to...

Reflections on WPUK: Making women’s voices count

Reflections on WPUK: Making women’s voices count As we publish the WPUK financial statement for the first three years of our existence, it feels like a good time to...

WPUK Financial Statement 2020

WPUK was started in September 2017 to ensure women’s voices were heard in the Westminster and Scottish Government consultations on proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act. You can...

Joint Statement on the UK Government’s responsibility to uphold women’s sex-based rights

We welcome this week’s announcement by the Minister for Women and Equalities. We are pleased that she has struck a balance between improving the process for obtaining a Gender...

Truth and Allies: Sarah Field

Cllr Sarah Field was born in Leeds in 1975. She is a single parent, ex-Labour Party member and is the elected Independent member for Garforth and Swillington in Leeds....

Woman’s Place UK submission on Hate Crime & Public Order (Scotland) Bill

This is the WPUK submission to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill Call for Views. We also submitted a PDF version of the record of all our...

Debate is not hate: women won’t be silenced

It is good to see the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the House of Commons Library acknowledge the aggression of the public discussion around proposals to amend...

WPUK rebuttal of Tribune article by Torr Robinson

On 25th February, we wrote to the Editor of Tribune Magazine to challenge accusations made about Woman’s Place UK in an article written by Torr Robinson. The accusations that...

Our rights are not yours to give away – Labour must listen to women: Dani Ahrens

Dani Ahrens is a founding member of Brighton Pride and a lifelong left wing activist. On 24th June she tweeted a thread of paragraph by paragraph commentary on an article...

Dear Zarah Sultana: an open letter

On 5th June Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, tweeted screenshots of a letter she had written to Liz Truss MP. In that letter, Ms Sultana wrote about “attempts...

WPUK response to Sunday Times story on GRA consultation outcome

Today the Sunday Times reports that the government, following consultation, has rejected reform of the Gender Recognition Act to permit sex self-identification. There has been no formal announcement but,...

Woman’s Place UK submission to Women & Equalities Select Committee Inquiry into Covid-19

About us Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) is a grassroots feminist campaign which was formed by a group of women in the labour and trade union movement to uphold women’s...

WPUK response to Liz Truss statement to Women & Equalities Committee

We welcome the statement made by Liz Truss MP, the Minister for Women and Equalities, earlier this week in which she set out the priorities for the Government Equalities...

Dear Keir…

Dear Keir, We are the co-founders of Woman’s Place UK and we are all members of the Labour Party. We have been horrified at the way the concerns we...

Thank you Labour Women’s Declaration

On Monday night, we spoke at the #ExpelMe rally organised by Labour Women’s Declaration in support of Woman’s Place UK and LGB Alliance. You can read the speech by...

Norwich Quakers: modelling conflict resolution

On 25th February 2019 , Woman’s Place UK organised a public meeting, A Woman’s Place is breaking ground, together with local women in Norwich. It was held at the...

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