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Welcome to Fair Play For Women
We are a group of ordinary women who are concerned that in the rush to reform transgender laws that women’s voices will not be listened to.
Women get called transphobic for simply asking questions. Women are afraid to speak out and fear for their jobs and reputation if they do.
We are the voice of these women.
In a debate that is often clouded by emotion we aim to bring clarity and to enable a rational, evidence-led debate to be had. We are a reliable and authoritative information source on all the key topics in the debate. We are also the platform for women to speak from and we regularly publish new articles written by our supporters.
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Cervical screening rates have fallen to a 20-year low in England. Five million women are invited to screening each year in the UK yet one in four does not attend. Every year more than 3,200 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 890 die. However, Cancer Research UK has
Transgender rights do not exist in isolation. A balance of rights must be struck for the good of the whole population. We must ask ourselves “What is reasonable for us to do as a society?” In what circumstances should someone be allowed to change the sex on their birth certificate?
The government has confirmed that it will not make any changes to the Equality Act as part of its GRA reforms. This includes no change to the single-sex exemptions which give natal women their legal right to spaces and services exclusive to them. It will continue to be lawful to
Please listen to this 5 minute video first! 1) Introduction The UK government announced last year that the 2004 Gender Recognition Act will be reformed to make it easier and quicker for transgender people to apply for legal recognition of their preferred gender. The change will remove the need
Fair Play for Women supports the rights of ordinary trans people to live their lives freely and safely and for people with gender dysphoria to get the treatment they need. But we do not agree that we have to subvert our language or understanding of biology to achieve that. When women are
I’m a scientist, so facts matter to me. At Fair Play for Women, we use hard data and proven facts to defend women and their rights. Knowing that the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act would allow any male prisoner to change the sex on his birth certificate to
This is a letter to Martha Lane Fox, the entrepreneur and feminist who sits on the board of Twitter. We write to her in the wake of mass deletions from Twitter of gender critical feminists who in many cases have had their IP addresses and phone numbers blocked so that
1.0 Introduction In the UK there are three groups of people all staking a claim to the word woman. Under UK equality law a women is defined as a ‘female of any age’ and the overwhelming majority of women are legally female by virtue of birth. However, a small number
Over 750 people added their name to the open letter published in the Sunday Times asking Girlguiding to review their trans policy. Here are some reasons, in their own words, why people felt so strongly. If you want to add your voice fill in the contact form at end of
Welcome to Fair Play for Women. We are an apolitical grassroots campaign group standing up for the rights of women and girls. This is the full list of names of the 759 people who signed in support of the open letter to Girlguiding published in the Sunday Times on 15th
UPDATED: Due to overwhelming support we will continue to collect names who support us. Please add your name to the contact form below. (If you also want to add your own quote to this blog click here) We will be publishing an open letter to Girlguiding in a national
“Girlguiding is not just sleepwalking into the next sex abuse scandal. They are wilfully turning the other way and hoping for the best.” Julie Bentley the CEO of Girlguiding made this statement on 12th March 2018 in response to media reports that parents and leaders are concerned about
For more than a year, Girlguiding HQ have repeatedly ignored safeguarding concerns, leaving worried Leaders with no other option than to launch a public campaign to alert parents. Rebel leaders have now teamed up with FairPlay for Women and together we have created the ‘Sisters To All Guides’ campaign
1.0 A Sister to All Guides On Sunday 24th March a Leader with a Rainbows unit in London bravely spoke up about her concerns regarding Girlguiding’s transgender policy. Helen Watts allowed herself to be named, quoted and photographed for an article in the Sunday Times. Parents may be wondering why
Last year while we were all looking the other way and distracted by the UK government’s proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act the word woman was stolen from us. It was sneakily done by the Scottish parliament and hidden behind a smoke screen. That smoke screen was The Gender
This report discusses the way some women’s voices are being silenced within the political and social debate on sex and gender identity. Women have an important and legitimate contribution to make but this censorship is preventing a fair and free debate. The aim of this report is not to address the
Hello. I’m Nic Williams from Fair Play For Women here to remind you that we only have 2 days left to fill in the Scottish Consultation Questionnaire to voice our opposition to changes to legal gender recognition. We have until 5pm on Thursday this week. You don’t
If government reforms of the Gender Recognition Act are made law it will have dangerous consequences within the UK prison service. Self-identification of legal gender will mean any male prisoner will be able to change his legal sex to female and become eligible for transfer into a women’s prison.