Our aim is to ensure that the needs and rights of women and girls are properly considered in policy-making. Much of the established policy and practice that is harmful to females was agreed without such consideration. We have to speak up for ourselves. To that end we provide written submissions to relevant consultations. Below you’ll find submissions we have made to various UK government consultations, to United Nations requests for input, and to sporting bodies. There’s lots of useful data, links and information that you may find useful in your own lobbying.
Input on policy consultations in the UK and to the United Nations
Equality and Human Rights Commission statutory review March 2023
DCMS committee on women’s sport February 2023
Crown Prosecution Service consultation on sex by deception September 2022
DCMS committee on grass roots sport September 2022
Civil Service People Survey August 2022
United Nations Periodic Review of Human Rights March 2022
Welsh audit office consultation on equality objectives March 2022
UK government consultation on proposed conversion therapy ban February 2022
Science and Technology Committee inquiry into diversity in STEM January 2022
Improving outcomes for women in the criminal justice system January 2022
Scottish government consultation on recording of crime statistics December 2021
Response to the Financial Conduct Authority proposals on board representation October 2021
Support for MBM petition to Scottish government to record the sex of rapists accuratelyAugust2021
Welsh government LGBT policy consultation Aug 2021
Letter to the UN Commission on the Status of WomenJuly2021
Women’s Health Strategy UK government consultation June2021
OSR sex and gender data policy consultation April 2021
UN gender, sexual orientation and gender identity report March 2021
ONS inclusive data consultation March 2021
Dept for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport consultation on concussion in sport March 2021
Violence Against Women and Girls consultation on UK government strategy Feb 2021
Gender-neutral toilets UK government consultation Jan2021
Freedom of expression UK parliament Human Rights Joint Committee consultation Jan2021
GRA reform UK parliament Women and Equalities committee inquiry Jan 2021
Concussion in sport UK DCMS Committee evidence Dec2020
Community sport UK government Sport committee Dec2020
Submission to Women and Equalities Committee Nov 2020
Online harms UK government white paper July 2019
Media consultations
IMPRESS policy on trans reporting Feb 2021
IPSO Editors’ Code policy on trans reporting March 2020
Submissions to sports bodies
British Cycling transgender policy consultation January 2023
World Athletics Global Conversation: we say reinstate the female category May 2021
British Cycling transgender policy consultation April 2021
RFU (England Rugby) transgender policy consultation April 2021
Letter from sixty British Olympians to the IOC Sept 2019
The Census case
The pre-action letter setting out the legal grounds for the case
A round-up of reasons why recording sex correctly matters
More detailed evidence on how misclassification of sex generates serious errors in data
Supporting Scotland
Our submission to the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee to support Petition 1876: Accurately record the sex of people charged of convicted of rape of attempted rape.