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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....
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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...
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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...
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Make the Census make sense
Some of you are asking how you can voice your concern about the proposed guidance to accompany the sex question. You can contact ONS on national.statistician@statistics.gov.uk Liz Truss MP...
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Women count, count women: WPUK & the Census
The subject of the webinar we are hosting tomorrow, Sunday 18th October, is also that of our first action: accurate recording of sex in the census. Selina Todd will...
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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...
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Sex matters: WPUK response to GRA announcement
Three years ago today, we formed Woman’s Place UK with the specific aim of supporting women to respond to the consultation on the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) and to...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Women are under-represented in film – why the BFI needs to be held to account: Deirdre O’Neill
Filmmaker Deirdre O’Neill, who co-ordinates the Inside Film project, argues that the British Film Institute needs to do much more to tackle the barriers to women’s participation The relationship...
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Sex and transgender status in American employment law – the Bostock case: Elizabeth Hungerford
Elizabeth Hungerford is a licensed, though non practicing, attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She identifies as a feminist, lives as a lesbian, is a longtime observer and sometime...
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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”,...
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2020 WPUK submission Labour Party Policy Forum: work, pensions and equality
This is the submission we made to the Labour Party Policy Forum 2020 on work pensions and equlity. We welcome the opportunity to contribute to Labour’s national policy forum...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Allison Bailey: “I am suing Stonewall to stop them policing free speech”
UPDATE: ALLISON BAILEY AWARDED £22,000 IN DISCRIMINATION CASE With permission, we are posting the text from Allison Bailey’s Crowdjustice funding page because the page has been taken down. In...
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