Discrimination Archives - Woman's Place UK

Pride & Protest: WPUK statement on London Trans Pride 2023

Pride & protest: WPUK statement “I was going to come here and be really fluffy, and be really nice and say ‘yeah be really lovely queer and gay’, but...

Response to the TUC’s letter to Kemi Badenoch

Read the TUC letter here. Response to the TUC’s letter to Kemi Badenoch about the Equality Act: The TUC’s letter demonstrates a worrying ignorance of current equalities law. It...

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...

Evidence to the Scottish Government: female participation in sport

'Girls and women need an opportunity to participate in physical activity in their own ways. The presence of males, as staff or participants, changes how girls and women participate...

Spanish feminists take on Podemos: “There are feminists in Podemos too”

Just as women in Izquierda Unida, a Spanish left wing political coalition, have published a statement against proposed gender self-ID legislation; women in Podemos, a Spanish left wing party...

WPUK exchange with EHRC on the collection of sex data

EHRC guidance to Scottish Government working group on sex and gender in data WPUK has recently been in correspondence with the EHRC about guidance on the collection of...

Misfortune: the Left’s betrayal of women and Marxism

We are aware of the publication of an article titled ‘Notes on British Transphobia’ on the website of Anti Capitalist Resistance. This is yet another missed opportunity for serious...

Women’s rights in Cambridge

Thursday night saw the latest assault on women’s rights by Cambridge City Council. With near unanimity councillors voted that gender identity trumps sex. Kevin Price, a Labour councillor for...

Happy World Statistics Day – Sex in the Census

Below is the text of a letter we have sent today to Ian Diamond, National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority....

The Political Erasure of Sex

We are delighted to be supporting this important new work by Jane Clare Jones. We reproduce here the blurb from the Political Erasure of Sex website: “The Political Erasure...

Links from #WPUKCensus Chat

These are the links that were posted in the chat during the #WPUKCensus meeting You can watch a recording of the webinar here: Sex in the Census October 2020...

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...

Overlooking the invisible minority: girls in gangs by Michaela Clare Addison

Michaela Clare Addison is an advocate for young women & girls who have been subjected to sexual violence. She has recently been awarded an MA from CWASU (London Metropolitan...

Against the erasure of women: interview with Spanish feminist and politician Angeles Álvarez

We are delighted to feature an interview with Spanish feminist and socialist politician Angeles Alvarez. Born in Zamora in 1961, she was a PSOE (the Partido Socialista Obrero Español,...

Making policies Equality Act compliant: Audrey Ludwig

Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. Introduction This blog is loosely based on the talk I gave, with Julian Norman, at the WPUK Women’s Liberation Conference in February...

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...

Statement by the Spanish Socialist Party on Sex-Based Rights and “Theories Which Erase Women”

NOTE: This is a translation of a statement by the Spanish Socialist Party. The definitions used in the piece do not necessarily align with those used by this campaign...

Gender recognition in Ireland: Jill Nesbitt

Jill Nesbitt is a former journalist who has worked freelance and on the staff of The Irish Times, as a researcher on The Consumer Show for RTE, Ireland’s national...

Standing on the shoulders of giantesses: working-class women suffragettes: Louise Raw

Louise Raw is a writer and historian with a particular interest in the less-told stories of British history: of women, the working class and BME people. The Suffrage...

Girlguiding: campfires, crafts and compelled belief: Helen Watts

Helen Watts was involved in Girlguiding as a child and adult. Since 2018, she has been campaigned for Girlguiding to review their trans policy, which breaches girls’ right to...