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What It Costs: Women Speak Out

Women writers and artists speak out about loss to their creative, personal and professional lives due to trans activism

FAO prime minister sunak & justice secretary raab

Dear Mr Sunak, I write to you in your capacity as Prime Minister, in my capacity as an erstwhile criminal barrister and women’s rights campaigner, with regard to the Cabinet Office’s response to our petition calling for Parliament to debate repealing the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and recategorising transgenderism under Freedom of Belief in the […]

FAO Cabinet office

In response to our petition calling on Parliament to debate whether the time has come to #RepealTheGRA 2004, and recategorise “gender” under the protected characteristic of Freedom or Belief, you write “we believe the Gender Recognition Act 2004 is effective, strikes the right balance and allows for those who wish to legally change their sex. […]

A GUEST POSTER WRITES: WHY I WANT TO #REPEALTHEGRA

I decided to do this thread to explain why I think repealing the GRA is the only logical solution to the current women’s rights versus trans rights conundrum. Whenever this issue arises, it usually spirals into either ‘not all trans’ or ‘it’s impossible, so let’s not talk about it.’ Here’s why I think we should […]

review: born in the right body by isidora sanger

Non-fiction Paperback, £11.99 With a name that conjures ghosts of the first-wave past, retired medical doctor and women’s rights activist Isidora Sanger informs us that this essay collection is “a record of an ignoble moment in history that should not be swept under the carpet and forgotten.” There could be no finer commentator. Ever since […]

Petitioning parliament to #repealthegra

As of November 2022, there are three women’s rights petitions in circulation calling upon Parliament to debate biological sex and “gender” in law, and change legislation. (1) “We call upon the Government to repeal the Gender Recognition Act 2004. The Act makes it impossible in practice to keep biological men – who are statistically responsible […]

An NHS consultation response

The NHS interim service specification public consultation ends on December 4th. I call upon anyone with kids, or who cares about kids, to respond in a manner that calls into question the role of gender identity ideology in evidence-based healthcare. If you have experience of “gender identity” services, as a service user or parent, or if you […]

On ‘gender’: put blame on mame, or was eve framed?

Prompted by a Canadian street activist “Billboard Chris” pinning on feminists the blame for transgender ideology, and attendant harms to children, I wanted to write something short about ‘gender’ to help bust a myth, in the hope that it will not take root and lead to misdirected retribution against feminists women. I also want to […]

On mission creep

Yesterday, counsel for For Women Scotland submitted to the court two technical—but important—truths related to ongoing legal attempts to reconcile women’s rights and ‘trans rights’: To date, activists, politicians and lawyers have worked together to create concepts whose conclusions are so patently absurd (e.g. it is lawful to incarcerate male prisoners—even those without a GRC—in […]

on the ghost of goodwin

Having written a piece skimming over the main arguments in favour of retaining the GRA 2004, I note that some gender criticals who favour retention of the Act continue to cite the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case of Goodwin v United Kingdom 2002 as an impassable obstacle to repeal. I consider this to […]

on women’s safety & letting women speak

I wanted to respond to the latest round of UK socialist feminists going out of their way to make independent feminists less safe in their public consciousness-raising efforts. I’m telling a story from below here, as I understand it. As always, I welcome corrections if I’ve got anything wrong, and if any readers care to […]