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Latest news from WDI

WDI supports Kellie-Jay Keen and Standing for Women

Following the shocking events in Bristol, UK, last weekend where women meeting to discuss their sex-based rights were abused, threatened and trapped by masked men, WDI offers our full support to Kellie-Jay Keen, a warrior for women and children’s rights, and her organisation, Standing for Women. Read our full statement.  

WDI supports Anna Kerr

Read our statement in support of Anna Kerr, WDI country contact in Australia and solicitor at Feminist Legal Clinic, who has been suspended from the Greens NSW for her support of women's sex-based rights. 

'Meet the censored - Kara Dansky'

Matt Taibbi publishes interview with WDI USA's Kara Dansky. 

WDI social media

Tired of Twitter? Join WDI and WDI_USA on GETTR and be the heretic you've always wanted to be.

'Sheila Jeffreys saw it coming'

Read WDI Mexico's Laura Lecuona writing in Tribuna Feminista about WDI director and renowned feminist Sheila Jeffreys, and her prescient writing on men who pretend to be women. 

WDI USA - Title IX rally, 23 June

WDI USA is participating in a rally to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Join WDI USA president Kara Dansky to celebrate 50 years of women's sports! Details to come.

WDI Mexico launches abolitionist campaign

Alianza de Redes Feministas Nacionales, along with WDI-México, launched the abolitionist campaign Vindicaciones Feministas (Feminist Vindications) to analyse sex-based oppression systems against women and girls. Follow WDI Mexico on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Download stickers and posters. 

WDI merch

New WDI merch shops available! Buy WDI merch from the US store and the UK and global store.

WDI webinars
WDI Australia and New Zealand webinar - 25 June, 19.00 Sydney time
This month we are hearing from Anna McCormack, Yolanda Forster and Jasmine Sussex on topics ranging from linguistics and free speech to the threat of self ID to Australian women. Register here. 
Feminist Question Time : Call for panellists
We're trying something new:
The Personal is political! Everyday stories of reflection, resilience and resistance.  We invite you to share your experiences and thoughts on Gender Ideology in the Workplace
at FQT on 16 July 2022. See our flyer for more information. 

WDI Feminist Question Time (FQT) takes place on Saturdays at 15.00 UK time. This week, 25 June, we have:
Ilse Jacobsen, Germany, The misrepresentation of scientific facts and promotion of gender ideology by public broadcasting in Germany
April Morrow, USA, Women On The Inside
Sheila Jeffreys, UK, Nappy Fetishism
Register here. 

WDI Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) takes place on Sundays at 10.00 UK time. This week, 26 June, we are discussing 'Herland and the Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Lierre Keith and Jo Brew
Register here.

Campaigns

Signatories in Ireland - write to your TD about international surrogacy

If you live in Ireland, please write to your TD to protest against the imminent legalisation of international surrogacy. Stop Surrogacy Now has created a template letter to help. 

CIAMS petition against surrogacy - please sign

Please sign this CIAMS petition against the Hague Convention draft protocol and the Verona Principles which attempt to organise cross-border reproductive exploitation. 

Sex-based rights around the world

Miscarrying woman denied abortion in Malta

An American woman on holiday in Malta who is miscarrying her 16 week pregnancy has been denied a termination even though her health may be at risk.

FINA bars male swimmers from female events

Swimming organisation FINA has voted to stop male athletes competing in women's events if they went through any part of male puberty.  

UK woman ordered to pay man £300

A woman in the UK has been ordered to pay £300 to a man who pretends to be a woman after she made comments that made him feel 'unsafe'. 

Rugby League bans male players at elite level women's matches

Rugby League has banned male players from competing in women's matches at international level. 

Puberty blocker effects unknown, says paediatric gener clinic

A paediatric gender clinic in Australia has written to parents to tell them the effect of puberty-blocking drugs on the brain is 'unknown'. 

Resources

Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender

A group of health care workers (Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender) have set up a website of concerned health care workers to look at the evidence base (or lack of it) for managing children with 'gender dysphoria'. 

'Is a school LGBT club a good idea?'

Powerful article from a gay teacher about the unwitting harm that can be caused by school affirmation of trans identities. 

Continuation of Gender-affirming Hormones Among Transgender Adolescents and Adults

Journal article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Medicine contains interesting statistics on desistance and detransition.