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The Cass Review

The Cass Review Statement Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) welcomes the publication of the final report of the (Cass) Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people. The report...

A Woman’s Place is in the Press: a guest blog by Susanna Rustin

Susanna Rustin is a leader writer at the Guardian, where she writes mostly on social affairs and the environment. She has also worked as an editor on the opinion and...

Labour Women’s Declaration & FiLiA: Women on the move

The women’s liberation movement in Britain today is diverse and strong. There are myriad voices in conversation – and sometimes disagreement – with each other. Our movement is the...

Scottish Government’s strategic review recommends single-sex services

Scottish Gov strategic review recommends single-sex services. A response from WPUK. Independent Strategic Review of Funding and Commissioning of Violence Against Women and Girls Services Woman’s Place welcome the...

‘But she was 30+ weeks?’ A response

If the aim of criminalising women for behaviour while pregnant (aka foetal homicide laws) is to protect foetuses and children, as this blog shows, they clearly they fail!

Anneliese Dodds ‘Sex & gender are different’

Anneliese Dodds ‘Sex & gender are different’ Woman’s Place UK welcomes Anneliese Dodds’s recognition that sex and gender are different For the past three years, Keir Starmer and Labour...

WPUK evidence to the CPS Consultation: Gender deception, Rape & Serious Sexual Offences

WPUK evidence to the CPS Consultation: Gender deception, Rape & Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO), submitted December 2022. The CPS consultation refers to a proposed revision to its legal guidance...

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...

WPUK’ SUBMISSION: IPSO editorial guidelines on sex and gender.

The use of “she” and “woman” to refer to biologically male offenders misleads readers in another fundamental way. It creates the impression that far more women commit crimes sexual...

New MoJ transgender prisoner policy: WPUK Statement

We believe no female prisoner should be forced to share prison space with male prisoners. The United Nations mandate to keep male and female prisoners separate is essential, not...

WPUK statement: For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers

For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers serves to remind us that UK law does not work for women. By accident or design, there is a disregard for women’s rights,...

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.

WPUK position on Gillick Competence and Fraser Guidelines

WPUK position on Gillick Competence and Fraser Guidelines The significant legal case, courageously pursued by Keira Bell, has provoked discussions around the Gillick competence and the Fraser Guidelines. Here...

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...

The ‘Natal female’ question by A Hutchinson and M Midgen

The significant treatment decisions being made are adult decisions. It is simply not possible for a child or adolescent to conceptualise a loss of fertility or sexual pleasure before...

Sex-based discrimination: an interview with Dominican feminists Michelle Morales and Violeta Jimenez

This article is part of a series of interviews featuring international perspectives on the ramifications of the concept of ‘gender identity’ within public policy. We are grateful to all...

Sex-based discrimination: an interview with British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies

This article is part of a series of interviews featuring international perspectives on the ramifications of the concept of ‘gender identity’ within public policy. We are grateful to all...

Why do we keep banging on about the importance of single sex spaces for women who have been subjected to men’s violence*?

Karen Ingala Smith is the Chief Executive of a charity supporting women subjected to sexual and domestic violence. She also runs the @countdeadwomen account which records all the UK...

What Happened at Brighton: #WPUKLab19

Emily Ward attended the WPUK unofficial Labour Party fringe meeting in Brighton in September 2019. I was in Brighton, England on September 23rd for a meeting of Woman’s Place...

Not so liberal, not so democratic: the Liberal Democrats and Women

On Radio 4 this morning, Luciana Berger was asked about gender identity, sex and women’s rights. Here is a transcript of the interview: BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Thursday...

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