News and Updates

July 1, 2019, 5:03 p.m.

Feminists celebrate U‑turn on self‑id in Scotland as women’s prisons review trans policy

Scotland has shelved plans to allow people to self-declare their legal gender in what feminists said was a “major victory” for women’s rights and a “clear signal” to politicians in Westminster.

June 20, 2019, 1:45 p.m.

Victoria moves to enact self-id laws

Scrapping a "cruel and unfair" law will mean trans and intersex people in Victoria will no longer need gender reassignment surgery before they can change the sex recorded on their birth certificate. Gender diverse people, including children in some circumstances, will be free to self-nominate their sex as male, female or many other non-binary descriptors of their choice, under a bill the Andrews government will introduce to parliament on Tuesday.

June 4, 2019, 12:50 p.m.

Leeds Launch - Watch and Read!

Watch and read speeches from the Leeds Launch for the Declaration. Topics include the origin of the Declaration by Shiela Jeffreys, and transgendering children by Dr. Heather Brunksell-Evans.

June 4, 2019, 12:22 p.m.

Womens Rights Are Human Rights

Progressive folk should surely celebrate when a charity promotes the ‘human rights (as set out in the universal declaration of human rights and subsequent united nations conventions and declarations) of people whose experience of sex, gender, sexual orien

June 4, 2019, 1:17 a.m.

Vancouver Rape Relief Stripped of Funding

The organization, which has been supporting victims of violence against women for over 45 years, was stripped of city funding for refusing to allow a male self-IDing as a female to be a rape counselor to women.