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If you have any skills or time to share we are always looking for women who can volunteer - particularly those with legal, company administration, technical and social media skills. If you're in the USA you can fill out this form otherwise contact us here, we would love to hear from you. 

'Trans widows' from outside the UK/USA
Are you, or do you know, a 'trans widow' from outside the UK or USA? Vaishnavi Sundar of WHRC India is looking for women to tell their stories. If you can help please contact her.
Women's sports on Fox News
Kara Dansky discusses women's sports with Tucker Carlson - 7 December 2021. 
Anti-self-ID postcard available on WHRC Germany page
The independent working group for women's sex-based rights, Arbeitskreis Geschlechtsbasierte Rechte der Frau, has designed a postcard against self-ID in Germany and asks as many people as possible to print and spread it widely. The PDF is available for download on the WHRC Germany page and is already set up for printing. 
Why feminists are welcoming Dave Chappelle to Team TERF
'Biological sex is real. Every single human being, like every single mammal, is born either male or female. The rest is a lie.' By Kara Dansky (WHRC USA) in the New York Post.  
WHRC merch available
We have some leftover #SexNotGender t-shirts and hoodies from recent conferences. If you would like one please email us. 
Feminist Question Time and Radical Feminist Perspectives
This week's Feminist Question Time features Jesika Gonzalez of TERF Collective, USA, Ioana Nartea from Rad Fem Romania, Dounia from Belgium, Beth Steltzer from Save Womens Sports USA and Miriam Kivlehan from Ireland. Register here. Radical Feminist Perspectives is at 10am UK time and this week features a conversation with Batya Weinbaum's study group on Shulamith Firestone's 'The Dialectic of Sex, the case for a feminist revolution'. Moderated by Batya Weinbaum with study group participants - an Indian radical feminist, Dorothea Annison and Kate Williamson. Register here. 

Christmas list for radical feminists

This is the last WHRC newsletter before Christmas (we'll be back in the new year). Before we sign off for the holiday period we thought we would include some Christmas present suggestions for the radical feminists in your life - or those who might enjoy some great writing from fantastic women. See our website for the full list but here's a few of our favourites:

'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
'Il mio nome è Maria Maddalena' - Roberta Trucco
'Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation' - Renate Klein
'Detransition: Beyond Before and After' by Max Robinson

Sex-based rights around the world

Man speaks at day to commemorate massacre of women in Canada

The Prince Edward Island Advisory Council on the Status of Women asked a man to speak at an event to commemorate the murder of 14 women by an avowed 'anti-feminist'. Anastasia Preston, a 'trans outreach co-ordinator' who uses misogynist slurs and posts pictures glamourising gun violence against women, said he planned to talk about how men had been 'shut out' of the conversation on 'gender-based' violence. 

UK launches domestic abuse survey with no reference to sex

The UK's Domestic Abuse Commissioner has launched an 8 week survey aimed at victims of domestic abuse which does not ask respondents their sex, instead asking for their 'gender identity'. 

Chicago makes all public school toilets mixed-sex

All schools in the Chicago district are to be made mixed-sex in the name of 'gender equity'. 

Feminists demonstrate outside US Supreme Court 

On December 1, 2021, ten women stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court to take a stand for the right of women and girls to terminate pregnancies. Read more from Kara Dansky of WHRC USA. 

Canada's House of Commons passes conversion therapy bill without debate

'Canada’s House of Commons yesterday passed a bill that seeks to criminalize actions intended to dissuade a child’s or adult’s transgender identity. The bill provides for violations to the amendment of the Criminal Code to be punishable with penalties of up to five years of imprisonment.' Read the full story in Women Are Human.

Calling a man a man is not necessarily 'vilification' Australian court rules

'On 3 November 2021, after over a year of deliberations the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal (“ACAT”) partly upheld Beth Rep’s appeal against the original decision by the Tribunal in Clinch v Rep, which found her responsible for unlawful vilification on the grounds of gender identity.' Read the Feminist Legal Clinic's media release and an article in The Australian about the case. 

Events

Violence Against Women: Untold Stories - 9 December

Jeanne Sarson and Linda Macdonald, authors of Women Unsilenced, will be speaking at a Soroptimist event on Thursday 9 December - tickets are free and available here. 

Campaigns

UK conversion therapy consultation open until 10 December

The UK's consultation on conversion therapy is open for public responses until Friday 10 December. 

Comment on WPATH standards of care

The public comment period for the new WPATH standards of care document is open until 16 December. Please comment if you can. 

Resources

Presentation of the Argentinian Bill on the Eradication of Prostitution

On the 72nd Anniversary of the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, this presentation of the Bill on the Eradication of the Prostitution System, Prevention of Prostitution and Restitution of Rights took place online. Watch the event here. 

Sex and the Office for National Statistics: A Case Study in Policy Capture

This open access article in the Political Quarterly by Professor Alice Sullivan explains the legislative and political context around gender recognition, and the consequences for data collection.

Resisting the degradation of language

'We must resist the degradation of language being forced on us by gender identitarians.'Read Jennifer Bilek's article in the Post Millennial. 

Women's Library Australia

The Women's Library is a lending library and community space for women in Sydney. Find out what they're all about and browse their collection here. 

Abortion in Honduras

Honduras has some of the most draconian abortion laws in the world. FiLiA interviews feminist activist Neesa Medina about the situation.