Not a Ban! FGENs statement on the Draft conversion practices bill published today https://feministgenderequality.network/not-a-ban/

Ahead of Thursdays mass lobby we have written a handy factsheet with topics for discussion with MPs. https://feministgenderequality.network/ehrc-code-of-practice-key-legal-questions-and-issues/

FGEN is calling on its members and all those in the Higher Education sector to write the OfS demanding they take action in light of today’s ruling. If this is you, fill in the template letter below and send to: complaints@officeforstudents.org.uk feministgenderequality.network/template-let...

Statement from the Feminist Gender Equality Network on the Ruling in Sussex v OfS and FDU feministgenderequality.network/statement-fr...

Statement from the Feminist Gender Equality Network on the Ruling in Sussex v OfS and FDU - Feminist Gender Equality Network

As a network of feminist scholars, FGEN welcomes the University of Sussex’s successful appeal against the Office for Students (OfS) extraordinary £585,000 fine for alleged violations of free speech re...

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We're slowly creeping up on 300 Signatures, so why not ask you candidate to sign up to our pledge...

Feminist Gender Equality Network@networkgender.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FGEN Announces: Councillor Pledge for LGBTQ+ Rights In the run up to local elections across the UK, FGEN is calling on candidates to sign this pledge letter affirming their support for LGBTQ+ rights and opposing efforts to roll them back. 1/2

I'm proud to've signed up to this as a council candidate for the Greens in Newcastle - the current attack on LGBTQ+ rights isn't some remote culture-war issue but something happening on the ground, in our communities, to our neighbours and loved ones, and it's up to us to stand with them.

Feminist Gender Equality Network@networkgender.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FGEN Announces: Councillor Pledge for LGBTQ+ Rights In the run up to local elections across the UK, FGEN is calling on candidates to sign this pledge letter affirming their support for LGBTQ+ rights and opposing efforts to roll them back. 1/2

FGEN Announces: Councillor Pledge for LGBTQ+ Rights In the run up to local elections across the UK, FGEN is calling on candidates to sign this pledge letter affirming their support for LGBTQ+ rights and opposing efforts to roll them back. 1/2

Re-upping this again, because it’s a great take-down of the restrictive transphobic “data” activism.

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns

Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’

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'The iEHRC (independent Equality and Human Rights Commission), established by Dr Natacha Kennedy of the Feminist Equality Network (FEM) aims to provide an alternative to the present EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission)' northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

Independent EHRC established – existing EHRC ‘not fit for purpose’

A new idependent Equality and Human Rights Commission (iEHRC) has been launched in the UK, here is an interview with the founder

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Both of FGEN’s Co Chairs sat down to talk with journalist Emily Dixon about being trans in academia and how recent events such as the Supreme Court and the OfS fine on Sussex University have affected the environment. https://archive.is/oYqXS

This is one reason that FGEN is more important than ever, Both of our co chairs @natacha.bsky.social and @parkesland.bsky.social were interviewed for this article. We've been quiet publically for the last few months, but we have been busy in the background more news in the new year.

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

🗣️ 65% of trans adults reported verbal abuse in public spaces 👊 24% said they have suffered physical violence A new YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK: https://goodlaw.social/u5y8

‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe

YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

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Has Streeting EVER said ANYTHING that isn't hypocritical in the extreme? He's created such despair for trans kids that they are self-harming, starving themselves, not drinking & dying by suicide. If he genuinely wanted to end despair, he could do so today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We all know that the UK as the homeland of extreme transphobic bigotry, but a few rays of light seem to be piercing the stygian darkness of TERF island lately. The estimable @valorievandieman.bsky.social is Leading Off our week talking UK and Ireland.

Transphobic Politics Prove Unpopular in the UK and Ireland — Assigned

Leading Off: A landslide victory for Ireland’s leftist presidential candidate, the Greens’ dramatic gains in the U.K., and pushback to Starmer’s repressive policies put the lie to big media myths that...

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Have you been affected by Virgin Active’s ban on trans people in bathrooms and changing rooms? We want to hear from you. If you’re a trans or gender diverse member of Virgin Active, tell us about your experiences here: goodlawproject.org/about/contac...

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Get in touch using the form below.

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Due to a small issue we've had to re upload our keynote videos from the FGEN Conference held at Bush House on the 21st June. Now available on our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@feministgenderequalitynetwork

🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country. They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

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The new Aussie critique of the Cass Review does not pull its punches about its failures, & makes the point that "gender-critical beliefs" should be declared. Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them. archive.is/AqUGz#select...

The Telegraph, which campaigned against the exclusion and silencing of "gender-critical" transphobes is now campaigning for the exclusion and silencing of trans people.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 10mo ago

By "trans activists hijack" The Telegraph mean "trans people are involved"

It's just the same story over and over. Anytime a group of doctors take an honest look at the Cass Review they realize it's bunk. The irony is that Cass and her confederates were convinced they were blowing the lid off a major medical conspiracy to trans kids. Transphobe physicians heal thyselves.

FGEN are proud to be a signatory to this letter. The EHRC must me subject to Parliamentary scrutiny

TransActual@transactualuk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Along with over 80 partner organisations, we are writing to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations. Statement: transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...

On behalf of our membership, the Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) condemns Newnham College for advertising an explicitly trans-exclusionary Research Fellowship Award. https://feministgenderequality.network/fgen-statement-on-newnham-college-transphobic-fellowship-announcement/

"We, UK trans-led orgs & allies, withdraw recognition of the EHRC as a credible equalities regulator. Her appointment—despite parliamentary opposition—confirms the EHRC is no longer independent, but a tool for anti-trans policy. Cont.... 1/2

As a bonus here is a slideshow of some of the professional photographs from the FGEN Conference held at Bush House on the 21st June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2KnVMz0iE

We're releasing the video recordings of our keynote speakers from the FGEN Conference held at Bush House on the 21st June. Finally we have Katy Montgomerie on how to debate online with GC people. Now available on our YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/DHYG8HAw-s4

We're releasing the video recordings of our keynote speakers from the FGEN Conference held at Bush House on the 21st June. Next up is Natacha Kennedy and Anonymous mother of a trans child. Now available on our YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/HoSYNTRzTcM

We're starting to release the video recordings of our keynote speakers from the FGEN Conference held at Bush House on the 21st June. The first of these is Jolyon Maugham - Director Good Law Project. Now available on our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@feministgenderequalitynetwork