Resources

'Women's Rights, Gender Wrongs' is now available worldwide!

The WDI book 'Women's Rights, Gender Wrongs' was released in October 2023 and is now available worldwide! Read more and order your copy on the book page here

WDI's Statements and letters

3 Sept 2024 - WDI Canada and caWsbar have made a joint written submission to the 89th CEDAW Session, October 7 - 25, 2024
10 Sept 2024 - WDI Colombia presents a new Spanish language translation of WDI Brasil's article 'Expectativa de vida de 35 años'.
21 Aug 2024 - Open letter to UNAIDS by LBORI (inc. WDI USA Lesbian Caucus) decrying new terminology guidelines.
15 Aug 2024 - WDI USA files amicus brief with U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia, et al. v. B.P.J., et al.
14 Aug 2024 - WDI USA files first amicus brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Little, et al. v. Hecox, et al.
June 2024 - WDI Canada's submission to the Employment Equity Act Review Task Force: The Importance of Clearly Defining Women Within the Employment Equity Act
June 2024 - WDI submission on Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity
May 2024 - WDI NZ and WRP response to questionnaire from Professor Daphna Hacker, the CEDAW Committee and the Task Force on Gender/Sex Self-Identification
Jan 2024 - WRP NZ & WDI NZ Submission to the report of the Special Rapporteur on VAWG to the Human Rights Council on prostitution and violence against women and girls. References the 2016 Submission on Prostitution to UN Women from Stop Demand Foundation, New Zealand.
Dec 2023 - WDI UK GREVIO submission 'The approach to sex and ‘gender identity’ in criminal justice institutions within the UK.'
Dec 2023- WDI statement on Non-Violent Direct Action – 27th December 2023
Sept 2023- WDI Statement on accusations by AWID against Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Ms. Reem Alsalem
July 2023- Report from Women's Declaration International Committee on Laws and Legislation criticising recent UN initiatives.
16 Jun 2023- WDI USA Statement on White House "Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect LGBTQI+ Communities”
24 May 2023- The WDI USA Lesbian Caucus comments on USAID “inclusion” policy
23 May 2023- WDI UK Statement in Support of Petition to Repeal the GRA
19 April 2023- WDI USA Black Women's Caucus Statement Against Gender Ideology
12 April 2023- WDI USA Statement on The Department of Education’s 2023 “Athletics NPRM”
25 March 2023-WDI supports those speaking about women's sex-based rights.
22 March 2023-WDI USA Statement on same-sex marriage equality laws and co-parenting.
2 March 2023-WDI's message to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
28 February 2023- WDI USA Credited for State Bills Banning Child Medicalization to Disguise Sex
13 February 2023- WDI Argentina send a Report on the political representation of Women in Argentina to CEDAW
7 February 2023- WDI USA Statement on the Apparent Death of the Equality Act
1 February 2023-WDI USA Statement Regarding The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023
31 January 2023- WDI Argentina and Campaña Argentina por los Derechos de las Mujeres issue an Alternative Report to the Eighth Periodic Report of Argentina to CEDAW.
30 January 2023- A lesbian delegation to the House of Lords
15 December 2022-The “Respect for Marriage Act”: Response by WDI USA Lesbian Caucus
19 November 2022- WDI Bahamas express concerns about the Mental Health (Amendments) Act 2022.
17 November 2022- WDI Letter in support of Laura Lecuona
12 November 2022 -WDI Statement on: La XV Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe
31 October 2022- WDI statement on the strategic use of nonviolent direct action.
24 October 2022 -WDI Bahamas statement on the Sexual Offences Amendment Act
12 October 2022 - WDI statement in support of Iranian women.
4 September 2022- WDI USA announces the formation of the Lesbian Caucus, and its first completed project, The Lesbian Bill of Rights (LBOR).
2 September 2022 - WDI statement on the proposed Chilean constitution (Spanish and English)
1 September 2022 - WDI and WDI UK respond to inaccurate comments on our work published in the Radical Notion
1 August 2022 - WDI Germany stands in solidarity with Marie-Luise Vollbrecht
29 July 2022 - WDI Canada supports the Supreme Court’s ruling on stealthing
22 July 2022 - WDI statement of support for Peruvian women
19 July 2022 - WDI extends warm thanks to Raine McLeod, for her dedicated work as national co-ordinator of WDI Canada
27 June 2022- WDI USA statement on How the U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong in Dobbs
26 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Julie Bindel
20 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Kellie-Jay Keen
15 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Anna Kerr
7 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Christina Ellingsen
22 May 2022 - WDI Australia publishes report on its survey of politicians and their attitudes to women's sex-based rights
16 May 2022 - WDI statement in support of Ms Shono Yoriko
May 2022 - WDI Statement on "Report on Gender Theory" by Independent Expert Madrigal-Borloz for the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
May 2022 - WDI annual report - read about everything WDI has been doing in 2021/22
April 2022 WDI Brasil statement on single-sex provisions in hospitals
April 2022 - statement of support for Katherine Deves

Latest articles and talk transcripts from WDI and our signatories

September 2024: 'Experienca lesbianas en Abya Yala' by Kenia Pelaez (Original text) as heard on FQT 7/9/24. Also available in English translation.
January 2024: 'Trans is going strong at the UN and WHO, where nature is treated as a threat' - English translation of Marina Terragni's article for Il Foglio.
September 2023: 'Take These Tits' - English translation of Marina Terragni's article for Il Foglio.
August 2023: 'Personal self-defense against the hardcore empire is no longer enough. We need something else.' - English translation of Marina Terragni's article for Il Foglio.
August 2023 The Effects Of Losing Lesbian-Only Spaces In Germany And How To Get Them Back
July 2023: Women Around the World: Awake, Furious and Affiliating - Kathleen Lowrey article referencing WDI via genderdissent.com.
April 2023: Four Reasons to Stop Saying "Gender Dysphoria" Stephanie Bode on 4W website.
January 2023: Download a PDF Guide to Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) produced by WDI USA here. (Also available as a printable, trifold brochure.)
January 2023: Gender reform bill has betrayed lesbians — and will send them back into the closet
January 2023: The Erasure of Sex: The Global Capture of Policies on Sex by Gender Identity Activists and the Effects on the Rights of Women and Girls (also available in Spanish)
December 2022: A Compilation of Talks From WDI USA National Convention
March 2022: 'Gender Identity' in the EU - WDI
February 2022: The Insult of Transgenderism - Sheila Jeffreys
February 2022: Motion asks Green Party to suspend WDI signatories
WDI Spain interview with Colombian women's rights activist, Alejandra Vera - “Our health care system provides breast implants for men, but not for women with breast cancer”
WDI Brazil article January 2022 "The impact of "gender identity" politics on the rights of women and girls in Brazil"
NGOCSW66 - transcripts and videos of WDI talks
DOWNLOAD A TRANSCRIPT OF THE TALK ON 26-02-22 BY THE MOTHER OF AN IVY LEAGUE SWIMMER

Events

Weekly webinars

Our weekly women-only webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-350.

Feminist Question Time - Speakers from around the world discuss how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls.

Saturday, 3pm UK time. Register here

Radical Feminist Perspectives - a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.

Sunday, 10am UK time. Register here

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Research

WDI UK has published its first piece of research into the provision of single-sex accommodation and same-sex medical practitioners in NHS trusts in England and Wales. Download a copy here.

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Consultations

WDI, our country contacts and our founders regularly respond to consultations on issues involving women's sex-based rights.

Videos

Dysphoric - a four-part documentary by Vaishnavi Sundar
Whose Body is it? - Kara Dansky
Watch several interviews with Kara Dansky at the WDI YouTube channel.
NGOCSW66 - transcripts and videos of WDI talks

Watch more WDI videos.

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Websites

Full text of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) via the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. PDF format.
European Women's Lobby in Spain on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
Useful websites on the US 'Equality Act' here and here
Sex Matters - new UK website

More useful websites.

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Books

'Women's Rights, Gender Wrongs: the global impact of gender-identity ideology' ' - WDI women worldwide, edited by Kath Aiken and Sally Wainwright.
'Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology from a Medical and Feminist Perspective', - Isidora Sanger
'Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood' - Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram and Marie-Josèphe Devillers (also available in French)
'La coeducación secuestrada, Crítica feminista a la penetración de las ideas transgeneristas en la educación' - Silvia Carrasco Pons, Ana Hidalgo Urtiaga, Araceli Muñoz de Lacalle, and Marina Pibernat Vila
‘Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women’s Subordination’, - Sheila Jeffreys
'Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating: The Case for Resistance - Caitlin Roper
‘"He Chose Porn Over Me": Women Harmed by Men Who Use Porn’- Melinda Tankard Reist
In The Curated Woods. True Tales from a Grass Widow- Ute Heggen
To buy "Cuando lo trans no es transgresor. Mentiras y peligros de la identidad de género"-Laura Lecuona, email here
'The Abolition of Sex: How the Transgender Agenda Harms Women and Girls' - Kara Dansky
'Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life' - Sheila Jeffreys
'Women Unsilenced: Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win' - Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald
'Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport' - Linda Blade
'Doublethink' - Janice Raymond
'Not Dead Yet' - eds. Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne
'Spinning and Weaving' - ed. Elizabeth Miller
'Noi, Le Lesbiche' - ed. Arcilesbica
'Pornland' - Gail Dines
'Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation' - Renate Klein
'Detransition: Beyond Before and After' by Max Robinson
Female Erasure (the book) :Female Erasure

More book titles can be found here.

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Lobbying resources

For use by any interested in carrying out lobbying activities:
WDI letter to the UN, July 2020

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Academic Papers

Maureen O'Hara Compelled speech - gaslighting in the courtroom (2019)
Global Market Insights research into the sex reassignment market (2020)
Losing sight of women's rights: the unregulated introduction of gender self-identification as a case study of policy capture in Scotland
By: Kath Murray and Lucy Hunter Blackburn

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