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WHRC USA announces Amicus Brief

WHRC USA is pleased to announce the filing of an Amicus Brief in landmark federal litigation on 'gender identity'. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that any individual or organization has argued that the redefinition of sex to include “gender identity” presents a threat to women’s sex-based rights under the US Constitution.

Italian radical feminists help defeat self-ID bill

A bill that would have introduced self-identification of sex in Italy has been defeated with the help of radical feminists, including women from WHRC Italy. Read the latest update from Italian radical feminists at Feminist Post.

Coming up at WHRC

This week's Feminist Question Time has women from Italy, the US, the UK and Bosnia and Herzegovina discussing 'no debate' culture, how women's bodies have become 'unsayable', why gender ideology is not the new civl rights and women's rights to education. 3pm UK time. Register here. Radical Feminist Perspectives is at 10am UK time and this week features Caroline Norma and Julia Long discussing 'The Female Malady' by Elaine Showalter. Register here. 

Sex-based rights around the world

Polish woman dies after being denied abortion of unviable foetus

A woman in Poland has died from septic shock following doctors' refusal to carry out an abortion despite the foetus being unviable through lack of amniotic fluid. Poland's extremely strict abortion laws now ban termination even in the case of severe foetal abnormality. 

Marion Millar 'hate crime' case is dismissed

The case against Marion Millar, a Scottish woman accused of 'homophobic' and 'transphobic' hate crimes on social media, has been dropped by the Crown. 

India's NCERT issues 'transgender' guidance

The National Council of Educational Research and Training in India has released guidance for schools on the 'inclusion' of children who claim a trans identity. 

Department of Health leaves Stonewall

The UK's Department of Health has become the latest government body to withdraw from Stonewall's Diversity Champions scheme. 

Sex is not a 'human right' in the UK

The Court of Appeal has overturned a Court of Protection ruling that a learning-disabled man without the mental capacity to make the arrangements himself could ask a care worker to hire a prostituted woman for him.

Genital surgery becoming part of medical tourism in India

So-called 'sex change' surgery is rising in India, fuelled by nationals from other countries. 

EU suspends funding to WHO programmes in Congo after sex abuse

The EU has suspended funding to WHO programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo after concerns about the WHO's approach to the scandal involving the sexual abuse of women and children. 

BBC stands by article on 'cotton ceiling'

The BBC last week published an article on the sexual coercion of lesbians by men who claim to be women. Gender extremists complained in great numbers but the BBC has rejected their complaints. 

Attacks by transgender activists against Leni Breymaier, SPD, Member of the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)

Leni Breymaier, member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and recently re-elected member of the German Federal Parliament, unionist and gender-critical feminist, has been nominated by her party to be Chair of the Committee on “Equality and Diversity”, one of 22 Committees to negotiate the coalition agreement of the three parties (SPD, Greens, Liberal Democrats) that will constitute the future German Government.
Trans activists from within and outside SPD have started a shitstorm in social media against Leni Breymaier as being a transphobic TERF, stupid, ignorant, etc.
LAZ reloaded e.V. has issued a solidarity address to the Board of Directors of SPD (c/o Lars Klingbeil) and its group chairman (Dr. Rolf Mützenich) in the Federal parliament, praising Leni Breymaier for being a courageous feminist politician, fighting for women’s sex based rights, and strongly urging SPD decision makers to ignore unbearable attacks by trans activists and instead confirm Leni Breymaier’s nomination as Chair of the Committee on “Equality and Diversity”.

British academic forced out of her job

Professor Kathleen Stock has resigned from her job at Sussex University after a sustained campaign of abuse and harassment. Read Sex Matters' piece on the disinformation published about Prof Stock. Professor Stock was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme this morning - listen here. 

UK home secretary orders police to record sex accurately

British home secretary, Priti Patel, has ordered police forces to record the sex of criminals accurately, following cases where the crimes of violent male sex offenders have been recorded as being committed by women.

Campaigns

THE 2021 WIT SURVEY

Woman is This (WIT) is a group of radical feminists and gender critical woman. We have designed a survey to assess the psychological impact of gender identity ideology on gender critical woman and radical feminists. It will collect data on the impact of gender identity ideology on women’s mental health with the aim of gathering large scale empirical data that can be shared with policy makers, practitioners, researchers and the general public. The survey is specifically aimed at women.

We ask as many women as possible to take the time to complete it and to pass the survey link onto other women and groups you know to be gender critical. Women from all countries are invited to participate but it is only available in English. It takes about 25 minutes to complete but can take much longer depending on how much you want to say.
WIT is determined to ensure that distress caused to women by gender identity ideology is given full consideration by all our institutions. The survey will make a unique contribution to understanding the full impact of gender identity ideology on women.
Responses to the survey will be anonymised and all data will be held in accordance with data protection laws in the UK.

You are invited to complete the survey by the 4th December 2021. Access the survey here. 

Resources

Are Terfs Running the Transactivist Show?

How else to explain the increasing levels of self-sabotage in contemporary trans activism? By Kathleen Lowery in 4W. 

'We need to stop hiding, to stop deflecting and boldly tell the unvarnished truth – that it is impossible to change sex.'

Read the barnstorming speech by journalist Jo Bartosch at the recent LGB Alliance conference. 

EXIT prostitution webinar 29 October

Watch the EXIT webinar on prostitution which took place in Lisbon on 29 October. 

'The Persecution of Marion Millar and Kathleen Stock'

Read Stephen Daisley's analysis of these cases in the Spectator. 

Events

LFN book club - 3rd Tuesday every month - all welcome

The London Feminist Netwoork book group, a radical feminist women-only group who meet every third Tuesday of the month 7.00 p.m on Zoom, is welcoming new members. Upcoming books are:Tuesday 16 November 2021: Feminism For Women by Julie Bindel
Tuesday 21 December 2021: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Tuesday 18 January 2022: Hunger Strike by Susie Orbach