Gender ID bill - Gender Critical To Do List

[BetsyM00]

There seems to be quite a few of us with concerns about the proposed bill and who want to take some steps to voice opposition to it. I've pulled together some pertinent info and compiled a To Do List from threads on here, and elsewhere.

Please join in with any other suggestions.

Would be good if people could read this document about NHS endorsed transgender advice for children....,

www.centralsexualhealth.org/media/8009/guidance-for-schools-trans-gender-variance.pdf

....and send complaints to the Scottish government (details below)

Bearing in mind that Scotland is paving the way to fundamental changes to the GRA which the rest of the UK will be likely to follow, it makes sense to apply pressure to the Scottish Government at the moment as we’ll as to Westminster.

There’s lots of very worrying stuff in it, mainly an awful lack of safeguarding over vulnerable young children and teenagers but also some really terrible recommendations for children with special needs. This was discussed on a previous thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3101245-NHS-Transgender-guidance-for-schools?pg=1&order=

Email: [email protected]

General Enquiries
St. Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

thanks Quarks thats useful info. I was wondering who to send my letter to apart from the health authority named in the document..
Still writing it...!

Thanks for the thread OP Judith Green article:
www.feministcurrent.com/2017/11/28/judith-green-gender-recognition-act-fight-womens-sex-based-rights-uk/

Another Gender Critical thing to do -

If you are a supporter of the Labour Party, add a comment to the thread below voicing your support for those questioning why a man can be allowed to be a women’s officer:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3101669-A-Spartacus-letter-re-Jo-Cox-Leadership

Gender Critical to do list: Write to the Girl Guides

Girl guides have said that they will allow children to self identify their gender and will allow them to share sleeping areas, showers and toilet facilities and will not alert parents when this is happening.

So the feelings of a boy who identifies as a girl trumps the rights to sex segregated spaces that a girl is due under the Equality act 2010.

There’s a thread on this linked below.
The address and email details of the Girl Guides are below for sending emails / letters to.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3101024-Girl-Guides-Complaint-Reply

Girlguiding
17-19 Buckingham Palace Road
London, SW1W 0PT
Reg. Charity Number 306016.

[email protected]
[email protected]

Gender Critical to do list: Write to the NHS about their official policy on transing children
(Thanks to BelaLugosisShed)

Link to NHS England Policy document:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gender-development-service-children-adolescents.pdf

BelaLugosisShed

“Still saying puberty blockers are safe and fully reversible, no mention of the fact that if cross sex hormones are started at age 15/16 right after the full halting of puberty , genitals will be pre pubescent and stat that way and the child will be permanently sterile- they only mention that effects of puberty blockers on brain development is unknown.
They also state that normal puberty resumes if no cross sex hormones are started, that may be the case for precosious puberty but how do they know for sure if kids hardly ever desist after fully blocking puberty?”

Email: [email protected]

General Post (including complaints):
NHS England,
PO Box 16738,
Redditch,
B97 9PT

Gender Critical to do list: Write to the Scouts

As talked about on a previous thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3103529-What-happens-when-the-Scouts-outsources-its-policy-writing-to-Mermaids

The Scouts have outsourced their policies on accommodating non gender conforming children to Mermaids.

Their policy now endorses puberty blockers and breast binding as well as boys who identify as girls and vice versa being allowed to use the opposite sex facilities regardless of how the other team members feel (& the Equality Act 2010 is meant to uphold single sex facilities)

Link to their policy below:

members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/4228/gender-identity-supporting-young-people?cat=377,378&moduleID=10

Email: [email protected]

Scout Information Centre,
Gilwell Park,
Chingford,
London,
E4 7QW

Thanks a lot to all who have posted.

Am slowly working my way down the list.

There's another one from this thread on a Labour Reddit site - haven't seen it here. Apologies if I am duplicating. Labour-Reddit

Gender Critical to do list: Write to British Gymnastics

British Gymnastics have been lobbied successfully by a number of transgender pressure groups and have now made it mandatory to include information regarding your child’s “sex assigned at birth” among other trans ideology loaded questions.

They have also clarified that they have changed their policy on competition entry requirements so that people can compete as the gender they feel, not in their sex category. So a boy who feels like a girl and vice versa can compete against those who are in fact the opposite sex.

Previous thread here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3073896-British-gymnastics-just-asked-whether-my-sons-gender-matches-the-sex-he-was-assigned-at-birth?pg=1&order=

Contact details here:

British Gymnastics
Ford Hall
Lilleshall National Sports Centre
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 9NB
[email protected]

Consultation on the content of sex education classes in English schools (closes 12 Feb 2018):
consult.education.gov.uk/life-skills/pshe-rse-call-for-evidence/
Discussed on this thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3116593-something-potentially-very-important-regarding-sex-ed-in-schools

Sign up for notification of the launch of Westminster's consultation on proposed GRA changes:
www.gov.uk/government/email-signup/new?email_signup%5Bfeed%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Forganisations%2Fgovernment-equalities-office.atom

Wasn't sure what to do with this.

Not articulate enough for this myself.

If anyone has a BeOnScreen account, would they consider this?

Thought this is worth bumping for anyone new to this and who wants to write to MPs etc. Lots of template letters

Thanks for the bump - lots of brilliant stuff here for a newbie like me who feels something HUGE has been happening while Ive been looking the other way.... getting up to speed FAST

Hello all and thank you for the wonderfully reasoned, evidenced, patient and informative work you do on these boards. I have lurked for a very long time but you have inspired me to write to my MP and MSPs for the first time ever. My responses have been mixed (and I may post some for help with replying to specific points) but I wanted to post the link to the Scottish Government consultation just in case anyone hadn't seen it.
consult.gov.scot/family-law/review-of-the-gender-recognition-act-2004/
Like many of you, I was broadly supportive of this legislation until I read more about it and now am completely against it.

Just bumping this thread with a current to do list:

WRITE TO YOUR MP
SCOTLAND: WRITE TO ALL 8 OF YOUR MSPs

Contact details: www.writetothem.com/

Guidance from Woman's PlaceUK:
t.co/JJOVxHZYyn
Sample letters are in the fifth post on this thread (though some of them may be a bit outdated by now)
See also this thread.
Include the SAGES factsheet: sages.org.uk/publications/pdfs/Fact-sheet-Sex-gender-and-equal-rights-SAGES-2017.pdf

Keep writing. Anytime something newsworthy crops up, send them a link, ask questions.
Go and see them. Take a friend. Keep challenging.

Consultation on the content of sex education classes in English schools (closes 12 Feb 2018):
consult.education.gov.uk/life-skills/pshe-rse-call-for-evidence/
Discussed here and here.

Sign up for notification of the launch of Westminster's consultation on proposed GRA changes:
www.gov.uk/government/email-signup/new?email_signup%5Bfeed%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Forganisations%2Fgovernment-equalities-office.atom

Scotland's consultation on Gender Recognition Act 2004 (closes 01 Mar 2018):
consult.gov.scot/family-law/review-of-the-gender-recognition-act-2004/
Discussed here and here
Please complete even if not Scottish - some of the proposals effectively mean self-id will apply in England & Wales
Guidance:
fairplayforwomen.com/scottish-consultation/
leyaterra.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/gender-the-gra-and-womens-rights/

Women's Aid are reviewing their transgender policy, including the possibility of employing men who self-id as women.
Discussed here
Contact: Katie Ghose, CEO Women's Aid Federation of England, PO Box 3245, Bristol, BS2 2EH
Email: [email protected]
This is an umbrella organisation so worth writing to your local refuge as well. Find their contact details: www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic-abuse-directory/

This is useful: Research published in 2012 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission showed that 95% of women using women’s services preferred to receive them from a women only-organisation.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/research-report-86-the-impact-of-changes-in-commissioning-and-funding-on-women-only-services.pdf

Scottish Women’s Aid have already said they welcome self-id reforms of the GRA. Still write to register your objections and ask to see their review of services and impact assessment.
Contact: Dr Marsha Scott, CEO Scottish Women's Aid, 2nd Floor, 132 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3JD
Email: [email protected]
Local contact details: womensaid.scot/find-nearest-swa-group/

Also write to other Scottish organisations that have issued statements of support for self-id reforms of the GRA:
Rape Crisis Scotland, Close the Gap, Engender, Equate Scotland, Women 50:50 and Zero Tolerance.

Email the Equalities & Human Rights Committee, Scotland with your objections to the guidance for supporting transgender people in schools at [email protected]
Discussed here
Also see this thread, and contact [email protected]
If you're up for it, also worth tackling with your local school, governors, council.

Write to NHS England about their policy on transing children:
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gender-development-service-children-adolescents.pdf
Email: [email protected]
See QuarksandLeptons post on this thread from 08Dec17

Write to Scouts, Girl Guides and British Gymnastics and challenge their trans policies - see Quarks posts upthread.

Petitions

www.change.org/p/38-degrees-38-degrees-stop-silencing-and-censoring-women

www.change.org/p/t-parnell-stop-the-tories-proposal-to-allow-biological-males-to-gain-access-to-bio-female-safe-space

www.citizengo.org/en-gb/fm/89782-support-parents-opposing-transgender-ideology-schools

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/202435

www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-keep-sex-segregated-areas-sex-segregated

Twitter

It's pretty soul destroying but worth signing up (perhaps with an anonymous name and email) even just to support other gender critical women with likes and retweets.

Suggestions of who to follow:
WomansPlaceUK, WomenScotland, hopepinkboots, radicalhag, IndyLeya, Transgendertrd, DrRadfem, LogicalMarcus, sargesalute, JackyHolyoake, JaxDoes, FemalesFighting, cwknews, SkepticatUK, ClaireShrugged, Kiwigirl58, unbreakablepenn, LilyLilyMaynard, Dyketagnan, GappyTales, ThePosieParker, KIngalaSmith, FeministRoar, AskNic, MeghanEMurphy, glosswitch, sarahditum, fairplaywomen, PeachyoghurtYT, TerrorizerMir, MagdalenBerns

• your MP and local politicians.

Magdalen has a youtube channel with lots of great videos:
www.youtube.com/c/MagdalenBerns

Meetings

A Woman's Place:
Bristol, 08 Feb 2018 Sold out:
twitter.com/Womans_Place_UK/status/960906315446079489
Edinburgh, 14 Feb 2018
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-loves-womens-rights-tickets-42402450872
London, 27 Feb 2018:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-is-making-a-stand-tickets-42865237078
Birmingham, 15 Mar 2018:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-is-making-a-stand-tickets-42865237078

We Need to Talk UK and Ireland Tour:
Lewisham, London, 14 Mar 2018
www.eventbrite.com/e/transgenderism-and-the-war-on-women-tickets-42789335053

Crowd funding

James Caspian's proposal to research transgender detransitioners was turned down by Bath University because it was 'politically incorrect'.
See: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41384473
His speech from the House of Commons meeting last October is here.
He is legally challenging this decision and has a funding page on CrowdJustice.
Discussed here.

Jennifer James has stated a GoFundMe to Keep All-Women Shortlists Female in the Labour party. If you Google these terms you should be able to find it. Currently over £22,000.
Discussed here.

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Also: talk to people about this, open it up for discussion if you can, post articles on your Facebook, contribute to comments on online newspaper reports.

The Guardian are currently looking for comments on women's rights:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/06/whats-now-the-biggest-goal-for-womens-rights-share-your-thoughts
Discussed here.

This is BLOODY BRILLIANT. Thank you.

And one more organisation to write to, SwimEngland who have released a guide to engaging trans people in swimming.
Swim England, SportPark, Pavilion 3, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough University, LE11 3QF
Online contact form here.
Discussed here.

Bump for people who want to take action

Topshop, Primark and Marks & Spencer have all adopted a policy of allowing men who self identify as women into women's changing rooms.

All threee orgs have an online form on their websites to contact them if you wish to register your objections.
Also on Twitter: @marksandspencer, @Topshop, @Primark
Discussed here and here.

Worth mentioning Equality Act which permits keeping changing rooms as women only.
See: fairplayforwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/EA2010_womensrights_-factsheet.pdf
And the results of the Target sex offence study which reports a 2.9 times increase in peeping tom incidents after they changed to a gender neutral policy.
See: womanmeanssomething.com/1034-2/

This is great Betsymoo Made me realise theres still a few things I need to do

Anyone up for a topless swim in the men’s pond on Hampstead Heath?

Oh God I forgot about Hampstead Heath!! There's always one, isn't there?
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Trying to keep this bumped