A Woman’s Place is Fighting Back
Public Meeting in Mid-Cornwall
7pm Saturday 9 June 2018 (Venue to be announced)
Posie Parker. Woman, Mother, Feminist and Wife. Activist speaking out against the prison that is gender; to uphold our rights and protections; to confront those who wish to cause women harm through their own desires and demands. Currently in the middle of a huge fight for the right to free speech.
Jean Hatchet. Radical feminist activist. Raising awareness of intimate partner violence through “Ride For Murdered Women” where she honours a different DV victim with each bike ride.
Miranda Yardley. Iconoclastic transsexual Miranda Yardley has been advocating for a materialist approach to trans issues that identifies and attempts to resolve rights conflicts with good humor and intellectual rigor.
Judith Green. Service user of single-sex provision for survivors. She is speaking on behalf of Woman’s Place UK which exists to promote women’s voices being heard and consulted on changes to legislation, and to retain, extend and strengthen exemptions in Equality law.
Last July the government announced a consultation on their proposal to ‘demedicalise’ the process of changing gender, so that people can self-identify as the gender they choose, without any need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
But what exactly is ‘gender’, and what will be the impact of self-identification on women and on women’s rights?
Will this reform spell the end to single-sex spaces and the provision of single sex services, such as those provided by rape crisis centres and women’s refuges?
Will the changes make it harder to gather accurate data on the pay gap between men and women; on domestic violence against women; and on the health services women require?
Come and have your say on this controversial proposal.
The Woman's Place UK Five Demands:
- Respectful and evidence based discussion about the impact of the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act to be allowed to take place and for women’s voices to be heard;
- The principle of women only spaces to be upheld – and where necessary extended.
- A review of how the exemptions in the Equality Act which allow for single sex services or requirements that only a woman can apply for a job (such as in a domestic violence refuge) are being applied in practice;
- Government to consult with women’s organisations on how self-declaration would impact on women only services and spaces;
- Government to consult on how self-declaration will impact upon data gathering – such as crime, employment, pay, and health statistics - and monitoring of sex-based discrimination such as the gender pay gap.
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