Woman's Place UK

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    Smears & Lies

    We have recently been criticised for retweeting a tweet by someone who links to For Britain. We did this in good faith, without checking the profile, during an extremely...

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    Free speech at Edinburgh University

    We unreservedly condemn the attack on University of Edinburgh Rector Ann Henderson by a number of student groups including the Edinburgh University Student Association sabbaticals at the University. A...

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    The GRA and the Equality Act

    Julian Norman is a barrister specialising in Human Rights. This is the text of the talk she gave at a meeting in the House of Lords on 10th October...

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    A Woman’s Place is in Leeds

    On Friday 28th September, Leeds City Council prevented us holding our planned meeting in Leeds Civic Hall with an eleventh hour cancellation. 

The meeting, organised by Woman’s Place UK...

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    WPUK & John McDonnell

    We can confirm that we have had a meeting in confidence with John McDonnell. That meeting was very constructive and John listened to our concerns and confirmed that women’s...

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    Gender neutral toilets don’t work for women

    The anonymous author of this blog is an expert on public toilet provision and has been part of  a range of committee work on setting government standards on toilet...

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    Slurs Slander & Libel

    In the course of the last year Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) has been under almost relentless attack both on social media and in real life. We believe that many...

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    WPUK Meeting with Green Party

    We are astonished by the reaction to Caroline Lucas tweeting that she is arranging a meeting with Woman’s Place UK to hear the concerns of women in relation to...

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    Stonewall Report: Disingenuous or Gaslighting?

     This is the third blog for WPUK by an anonymous sister working in the Violence Against Women Sector. Dear Sisters and allies, Stonewall report Supporting trans women in domestic...

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    Social Media Attacks on WPUK

    It is now clear somebody created a fake FB account using a photograph of a woman without her permission and made posts implying she was a ticketholder to our...

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    Turning the Tide: Brighton 16th July 2018

      On Monday 16th July, Woman’s Place UK held a meeting in Brighton. The meeting was organised in response to a request by local women, as has been the...

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    Brighton Meeting 16th July 2018

    Woman’s Place UK is disappointed that, despite complete openness with Friends Meeting House Brighton, that they have cancelled our booking with them. This has happened just 5 days before...

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    Response to letter on GRA in Morning Star 13th July 2018

    We are calling for action within our movement to allow informed discussion to take place over proposed changes to the Act. We are glad that the signatories of the...

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    Press Release: GRA Consultation

    Gender consultation gives government the chance to commit to women’s rights The long-awaited consultation into reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) will be launched tomorrow (3 July),...

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    Evidence of calls to remove single sex exemptions from Equality Act

    The announcement by the government that they have no intention of altering the Equality Act 2010 or removing the single sex exemptions is very welcome. Since that statement was...

  • Government response to petition on ‘gender identity’

    We welcome the government’s commitment to respectful and evidence-based discussion and to retaining Equality Act 2010 exemptions. For these exemptions to offer women the rights and protections we deserve,...

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    Changes to Cornwall meeting

    Posie Parker  will no longer be speaking at our Cornwall meeting as we object to her stated views on race and religion. We do not agree that this reflects...

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    Response to Scottish Review of the GRA

    This is our response to the Scottish Government’s review of the Gender Recognition Act. Who we are We are a group of people from a range of backgrounds including...

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    Woman’s Place UK Oxford meeting

    Woman’s Place UK is facing an orchestrated attempt by Oxford University student activists to shut down one of their public meetings in Oxford tonight about changes to transgender laws...

  • Conviction of trans activist for assault at Hyde Park

    Today a 26 year old trans activist was convicted of ‘assault by beating’, after a 61 year old woman, Maria Maclachlan, was beaten at Speakers’ Corner in September 2017...