Medicine Archives - Woman's Place UK

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.

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...

“We are the warriors”: Victoria Smith (Glosswitch)

Below is the speech given by Victoria Smith at ‘A Woman’s Place is With Women: feminism, birth and motherhood’ held at the University of Bristol on Tuesday 3rd...

Poster from US 1970s women's campaign against forced sterilization

Keira Bell v Tavistock: Women’s Rights, Healthcare, and the Law

Keira Bell and the history of women’s rights, healthcare and the law In 1976 Loretta Ross sued and won a case against A. H. Robbins, the manufacturer of the...

2020 WPUK submission Labour Party Policy Forum: health & social care

This is the submission we made to the 2020 Labour Party Policy Forum on health and social care. We welcome the opportunity to contribute to Labour’s national policy forum...

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...

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...

Democracy, sex-based rights and a sex-based pandemic: Raquel Rosario Sanchez

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...