Resources

WDI book - call for articles

May 2022 - WDI is writing a book. We are asking for article proposals from women all over the world. Interested? Read more.

WDI's Statements and letters

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

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"

Events

What is to be Done? Women's Rights Conference

A hybrid conference (up to 150 of us in real life and lots more online) in London on Saturday 1st April 2023. 9am-5pm. Near Old St tube or Barbican tube. Women's Declaration International invites you to a day of speeches, workshops, networking, internet livestream link to global sisters and hopefully fun. If you would like to attend, help plan, organize, volunteer on the day, run sessions, etc, please email [email protected] or fill in this form https://forms.gle/bFLntzbBzrm4zd6M8

We will livestream the whole thing, so you can participate online too.You can use the normal FQT attendee login so if you are registered for FQT you are registered and need to do nothing further. If not go to Womensdeclaration.com and register for Feminist Question Time and you will get a Zoom link the week before.

With four rooms, a garden and a coffee area, the speakers/workshop leaders include: Sheila Jeffreys, Lierre Keith , Zuleyka Valentin Arroyo, Kaïla Atarou Manfah, Christina Ellingsen, Julia Long, Amparo Domingo, Kate Coleman, Stephanie Davies-Arai, Amber Alt, Paula Boulton, Maureen O'Hara, Marian Rutigliano, Lynne Harne, Emma Thomas, Sally Wainwright, Louise Somerville, Jan Williams, Kelly Frost, Kate Graham, Alison Jenner, Lynn Alderson, Shannon from HearSheHearShe, Jo Brew and many more!

The theme is What is to be done, so talks and workshops will focus on what we should do next.

After the day, we have booked some tables in a pub 10mins walk away to mingle and buy food and drink. We have also booked their private room which will be a quiet space for chatting until around 7.30pm. From 8pm we will turn the music up and dance the evening away! Please get your free ticket here and join us: www.bit.ly/womensdiscointernational

In order for WDI to break even ( & hopefully increase our war chest ), we need all of us to support the event both financially (by buying tickets, and donating funds) and also through volunteer activities ( in preparation, day of, and cleanup ).

https://buytickets.at/womensdeclarationinternational/855475

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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.

Watch more WDI videos.

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Websites

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

'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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