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Fair Play for Women welcomes Penny Mordaunt’s confirmation that women’s groups have “legitimate concerns” about legal reforms around gender, and the opening of the consultation today. FPFW, a campaign group for women’s rights, now calls on the Government to make good on those words by engaging fully with women’s groups,
Fair Play For Women would like to ask our supporters to read and share the open letter written by Fovas*; a group of female survivors of male violence. Click here to read the letter: Open letter from female survivors of male violence to women’s organisations (*Fovas stands for Female-Only, Violence
Proposed changes in gender laws due tomorrow could pose the biggest threat to women’s legal rights in a generation, campaigners have warned. A government consultation due on Tuesday could open the way to men being legally recognised as female based solely on their own words, without any medical or legal
Dear Tony Hall, We are writing to ask you, as Director-General of the BBC, for reassurance that the BBC will uphold its responsibilities to provide balanced, fair coverage with regard to political and public debate about women’s rights in relation to transgender issues. At the Westminster Social Policy Forum in
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
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
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
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