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Legally this is not a ‘trans rights issue’ it’s a ‘sex rights issue’ – a blog about boxes: Audrey Ludwig

Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. The way the issue is portrayed by lobbyists, most politicians, many corporates and the media, is legally wrong. The “trans rights debate”,...

Labour Campaign for Trans Rights letter to Catherine West MP: WPUK response

On 24th June 2020, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) drafted a letter addressed to Catherine West, Labour MP for Haringey and Wood Green calling on her not...

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...

Allison Bailey: “I am suing Stonewall to stop them policing free speech”

With permission, we are posting the text from Allison Bailey’s Crowdjustice funding page because the page has been taken down. In itself, this reveals a deeply troubling dynamic within...

Where is the outrage? Male violence against women: Charlotte Delaney

Charlotte Delaney is a writer, a mother and a feminist. Some time ago a close friend’s 18-year-old daughter called her mother to tentatively explain why, in her daughter’s own...

There’s more than one way to ‘erase’ women – Women’s rights under attack in Victor Orban’s Hungary: Jayne Egerton

Jayne Egerton is a socialist feminist & radio producer. On 28th May Hungary’s Parliament signed a bill into law which ends legal recognition for transgender people. The votes of...

A fork in the road? Comparing plans for gender recognition reform across the UK

Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie are co-founders of the policy analysis collective MurrayBlackburnMackenzie. Over the weekend, it was reported that the UK Government is scrapping...

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,...

Health care is a human right: Judith Green

Judith Green is a co-founder of Woman’s Place UK, works in women’s health and is a former user of single-sex services for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Health...

EqualiTeach and the Government Equalities Office

This post was updated on 13th May 2020 with the response we received from the Government Equalities Office. We became aware early last week of a resource, Free to...

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...

WPUK Response to the Communications and Digital Committee Enquiry: The Future of Journalism

This is the text of our submission to the UK parliament’s Communications and Digital Committee Enquiry on the future of journalism. About Woman’s Place UK Woman’s Place UK (WPUK)...

Too good for Labour: Karen Ingala Smith

We, the co-founders of Woman’s Place UK, are outraged that Karen Ingala Smith, highly respected campaigner and activist for the rights of vulnerable women and children facing male violence,...

Warning! This motion may damage your CLP

New Socialist has produced a draft motion for Constituency Labour Party groups (CLPs) entitled ‘Draft Model Motion in support of trans, nonbinary, and intersex rights’. In their ‘Tasks &...

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...

Women have a right to single-sex toilets

WPUK is pleased to hear reports that the Government has asserted the statutory and ethical rights for women to have access to single-sex toilets. The provision of single-sex public...

Expelled by the left: the case of the Spanish Feminist Party

Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She specialises in ending male violence against girls and women and is currently pursuing a PhD...

Solidarity with the Spanish Feminist Party/Mensaje de Solidaridad con el Partido Feminista de España

We are alarmed by the expulsion of the Spanish Feminist Party from the left-wing coalition block Izquierda Unida this week because of disagreements about plans to support self-ID. This...

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