Coming across a group of trans identifying men in the women’s toilets in a restaurant was a shock and I felt intimidated
I care because like all women, growing up female I suffered sexual harassment from the age of 11 until menopause. Knowing that women’s and children’s safety was being weakened and threatened in my lifetime was a call to action. It was not going to happen on my watch! Coming across a group of trans identifying…
Single sex spaces – a negative experience
Several years ago, a friend and I walked into a public bathroom with my friends then 6 year old daughter, ‘K’. At the wash basin was an individual dressed as a woman, but otherwise their appearance was very much male. Short hair, facial hair, tattoos on the arms etc. K asked quite loudly as children…
How can we fight for rights for a group that cannot be defined?
The trans issue acts to hide the nature of women’s oppression. I am a Marxist and a materialist and I believe that women’s sexed bodies (in relation to childbearing) is the source of our oppression as women. To deny the reality of this, is to make it seem as if there is no material basis…
I care because I want female rights protected while helping transpeople live well
I have supported crowd funding for individuals who have lost jobs because of their views. I have challenged individuals in my family and social circle who are supportive of recent trans activism I have been accused of being discriminatory and of supporting people who will harm the mental health of trans children in particular B,…
Initially I heard about GRA reform and thought it sounded a progressive change
I am conscious that I have a privileged background as white, male, heterosexual and well educated. I believe that I have a responsibility to care about others’ rights, too. Initially I heard about GRA reform and thought it sounded a progressive change but I have listened to other viewpoints and realise that some aspects of…
I fear for the impact of gender ideology on children
As a parent, grandparent and longterm volunteer in a primary school, I fear for the impact of gender ideology on children, both psychologically and medically. I have a huge concern for safeguarding across the board – in all the areas impacted by a belief in gender identity – single-sex spaces (toilets, changing rooms, prisons) and…
I had the experience of finding myself married to a severely AGP man
I care deeply about this for a number of reasons. Firstly, as a survivor of early sexual abuse and extreme male violence I have lived my whole life in the shadow of experiences I have has because of my biological sex. These experiences have shaped me and in many ways they have limited me. I…
It makes me sick to see a man on the top of the podium with two elite female athletes
I care most of all about the violation of women’s sports with the entry of males. It makes me sick to see a man on the top of the podium with two elite female athletes alongside. All women’s spaces should be safeguarded. I also want to stop the medical transition of children, and the changing…
I am worried about the influence that social media, influencers and so on have on children
I work in Education, I am worried about the influence that social media, influencers and so on have on children. I object to the conversion therapy that is affecting young lesbians and gay boys. As I have a child of my own I worry that he will be taught the idea that children who do…
There should be alarm bells ringing
This matters to me because I’m tired of parenting ROGD (rapid onset gender dysphoria) child, Because I have been living through 4 years of trans ideology since my daughter decided she was trans at the age of 16. I cannot affirm her in her male identity. The issue is the elephant in the room. We…
I saw the damage she had done to herself and the relief she felt when she detransitioned
I am a lesbian mother of daughters. I work with children. I knew a trans-identified female when I was younger and I saw the damage she had done to herself and the relief she felt when she detransitioned. Denial of material reality threatens the safeguarding of women and children. I have attended marches and demonstrations.…
The false narrative that trans women are men (very obviously they are not)
I care about human rights and will fight every step of the way to ensure that the human rights of trans people are not threatened or rolled back; this includes the human right to self-recognition, legal recognition, protection from sex discrimination and ensuring that trans women are correctly and fully protected in law the same…
I’m frightened to see these principles being eroded by magical thinking
I care because women as a sex class are being erased, with the intended consequence that we cannot fight for sex based rights we cannot name. I care about children transitioning and ruining their bodies before they know what they are doing. I would have been one of these children if I had been born…
They built an entirely new block of “all gender” toilets with very limited school funds
I care because I have daughters and they should not have to face this dangerous ideology. I have spoken out in life and social media. I have asked my daughters school to ensure they keep sex segregated facilities after they built an entirely new block of “all gender” toilets with very limited school funds. I’ve…
I have a gay son who would definitely have been fast tracked in gender changing
It feels like I have gone back to the gender stereotyping of the 1950s. Also because I have a gay son (in his thirties now) who would definitely have been fast tracked in gender changing – he played with girls, hated football and loved dressing up. I am really concerned about what they are doing…
The conversion and confusion of vulnerable children
This matters to me because of the reinforcement of gender stereotypes, the legal erosion of women’s rights, the homophobia and especially through educational programmes. I have discussed what is happening with family and friends and posted (anonymously) on twitter. I have been careful (cowardly?) about who I have spoken to. Anne, Left wing, feminist, lesbian,…
I expect I would have either been murdered by him or killed myself if there hadn’t been a women only safe house
This matters to me because when I lived in a women’s refuge with my children, my ex partner had already injured me repeatedly and if he knew where we were he’d have done anything to get to us, I expect I would have either been murdered by him or killed myself if there hadn’t been…
As an HR professional I feel for colleagues trying to navigate through this
I guess I would have called myself a liberal feminist, a live and let live type. I thought trans people had GD and medically/ surgically transitioned. I once worked with a very nice transwoman who presented as a woman, was called she, but used the men’s changing room and toilets. When JK Rowling tweeted in…
It’s rape culture writ large
I care because I’ve experienced decades of male harassment and abuse so I understand fully the need for safe spaces for women and girls. I am also deeply concerned about children’s natural explorations of their world and themselves being medicalised to the extent of preventing puberty, having dangerous surgeries, and potentially shortening their lives. Telling…
I have autistic grandchildren and I genuinely have concerns for their future wellbeing
I was made aware of this issue by the now banned from Twitter wings over Scotland, regarding the bullying of Joanna Cherry and Joan MacAlpine within the SNP. This quickly escalated to bring defamed by Fiona Robertson ( SNP women’s officer). I have autistic grandchildren (three) and I genuinely have concerns for their future wellbeing.…
We must give children who may grow up to be gay the time to decide for themselves their own path
I fear many children are being exposed to ideas and views that would have constituted child sexual abuse just a few years ago. The drive to normalise medical treatment using hormones on children is experimenting on children for the warped ideology of adults with little understanding of the long term side affects. We must give…
I am worried that medical transition will be the opposite of helpful for her
I could write pages… but to summarise: Firstly, because of the impact on children of being taught they (or others) could be “in the wrong body”, the messing with their heads this involves, the way they are indoctrinated to ignore their normal boundaries around their bodies, private spaces, etc. as soon as someone claims to…
I struggled with my discomfort and thought I was being intolerant and bigoted
I care because I’m a woman and a lesbian. After the T crept onto the end of LGB, I struggled with my discomfort and thought I was being intolerant and bigoted, but thankfully radical feminism and attendance at a meeting of WPUK in Sheffield, where I heard Michele Moore speak with passion and compassion, changed…
When archeologists uncover the bones of someone dead for thousands of years, their natal sex is easily discovered
I care about this issue because biology matters. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that when archeologists uncover the bones of someone dead for thousands of years, their natal sex is easily discovered. This matters to me also because I am terrified for my grandchildren, that they may be exposed to the warped views…
Every public body is captured, including the NHS where they harmfully affirm children’s gender distress
This matters to me because our family has been directly impacted by harmful gender and trans ideology. Due to the toxic nature of this debate, I have struggled to seek support and appropriate help for my child and myself. Every public body is captured, including the NHS where they harmfully affirm children’s gender distress and…
I am worried about the impact on children
I care because of the impact on women’s and girl’s safety and rights. I am worried about the impact on children. I have done very little as I am in a very vulnerable situation. My husband agrees with my stance but cannot cope with me talking about the issue. So I cannot discuss it with…
I care as a woman losing what used to be single sex spaces
I care about the harm being done to children and young people especially girls – physical and mental damage as well as misinformation. I care as a woman losing what used to be single sex spaces. I have complained to the body administering a post graduate student survey when gender id was a required answer.…
I dread to think what would become of me now
I care because I am unwilling to give away my rights and those of my daughter, granddaughter, other family, friends, in fact every female of any age. Women (and some men) fought hard to get the rights we have, the least I can do is protect them, and even strengthen and improve them, for the…
I sat dripping tears onto my homework and whispered, “I wish I were a boy”
When I was twelve years old I sat dripping tears onto my homework and whispered, “I wish I were a boy” I thank God that I did not grow up nowadays, when some woke guidance counselor would have taken me under her wing, helped me “become a boy,” and ruined my life. I wanted to…
How can anyone not care about that?
I care about this issue because it erodes women’s sex-based rights and causes harm to people who will end up regretting medical transition. Gender identity ideology is incoherent and implicitly relies on, and promotes, regressive sexist stereotypes. Legislating that people must regard male people as female or vice versa is profoundly illiberal and undermines freedom…
I’m from a relatively poor country (India). Girl children are killed at birth
Sex based protection of women is so important to me. Biological facts are important to me. I’m from a relatively poor country (India). Girl children are killed at birth. Ultrasound sex determination is illegal. Life is often misery for girls and women since they are born. Only the privileged can afford to lose the definition…
My grandson has been sucked into the idea he was born in wrong body
This matters to me because I have been personally affected because my grandson has been sucked into the idea he was born in wrong body and is really a girl since he was 6 3/4 yr old. He is now 11 and I have not been allowed to see him in 3 yrs. I am…
My housemate is trans
I care because women’s voices are being silenced and children and young people who may be confused about their sexuality and gender identity are being encouraged to undergo potentially dangerous treatments in the name of conforming to rigid gender roles. I have spoken out on my own political blogs and on social media. I’ve been…
I don’t want their childhood brought to an early end with distorted teachings on RSE/PSHE
I care because I’m worried about the elimination of sex based protections for women. I have two children, a 7 year old boy and 8 year old girl, and I don’t want their childhood brought to an early end with distorted teachings on RSE/PSHE, and I don’t want them growing up with gender stereotypes. Let…
I have been smeared and my views have been misrepresented
I care about this issue because it’s an assault on women’s rights. The longer I have been involved in reading, researching and writing about it the more it becomes clear that women’s rights are in a perilous position. Nobody at the top level is keeping an eye on enforcing legislation which protects women and girls.…
I fundamentally disagree with genderist ideology and all it entails
I care because I fundamentally disagree with genderist ideology and all it entails. I believe it to be anti-science, anti-material reality, deeply misogynistic, profoundly damaging to children and the biggest threat to the sex based rights of women and girls that I’ve seen in my lifetime I write to MSPs, contribute to crowdfunders and take…
I didn’t get the chance to finish before I was cut off
This matters to me as I have two young daughters and I am scared for their futures if sex based rights as girls and women are removed. I disagree with trans women participating in women’s sport for reasons for fairness and safety. I worry about the safety of women and children, myself and daughters included,…
She pushed back against it for herself, but she has friends who id as non binary
I have been a feminist for over 30 years. I care about the lives of women around the world. I am the mother of one daughter. She asked me whether I thought she might really be a boy because she quite likes girls and is oriented to STEM activities. She told me about trans guys…
If we can’t talk about it, we cannot fight it
I care because the rights of women and girls matter. Our biology is the cause of our oppression and if we can’t talk about it, we cannot fight it. I care because children are being forced onto life long medical pathways. I have marched, tweeted, had real life conversations, written to my MP (repeatedly), donated…
I am extremely concerned that trans ideology has very serious issues around child protection
I care because I am a woman and the erasure of women’s rights affects all natal females in terms of our personal care, privacy, safety, sports and careers. I am a parent of a young child and want my son and his peers to grow up free of oppressive gender stereotypes. I also worked with…
It really is a men’s sexual rights and privilege movement
I care because I am a woman, and trans ideology and legislation is eroding women’s rights. Once you take a proper look, it becomes very clear that transgenderism is not only a backlash to feminism, and the women’s liberation movement, but that it really is a men’s sexual rights and privilege movement. I also feel…
People stay silent; they won’t engage
I care about the protection of women’s spaces, services and sports. I am worried about an ideology that teaches children that if they do not conform to narrow gender stereotypes they were born in the wrong body. I am horrified by irreversible harms done to these children/young people through puberty blockers, hormones and surgery. I…
I quickly realised it was largely abuse survivors and women worried about their children speaking up
It was, in the first instance a bullying issue for me. I was a Labour Party officer, responsible for membership in our CLP and was appalled at the way a small local group were being allowed to mistreat and slander women. When I started talking to people, I very quickly realised that it was largely…
I feel excluded from forums that previously welcomed me
As an old rad feminist I’m genuinely frightened by what’s happening. This is the biggest attack on women’s rights since we first gained them; it’s a huge safeguarding issue; it’s directly linked to the rise of misogyny, to the pornification of society. I’ve joined public and private GC women’s groups, supported others through crowdfunders, with…
I saw women being attacked at the Anarchist Bookfair in 2017
Initially, I cared because I saw women being attacked at the Anarchist Bookfair in 2017 and the annual bookfair ending as a result. Since, I have been profoundly shocked by the misogyny of transactivists and the othering of their critics. As an affluent straight middle-aged white male, it all tends to be rather abstract, but…
I also care about ‘the wrong type of trans’
I care about this issue because this affects all of us. From women being allowed single sex spaces and the fight against misogyny for that, to children being medically transed by woke parents. Child safeguarding is a massive concern within this agenda. I also care about ‘the wrong type of trans’, these people just want…
I have four nieces whose rights to their boundaries I will defend to the death
This matters to me because women’s rights have been hard fought for over a long period of time and have only been legally recognised for a very short period of time. Sex-based rights are crucial if women are to overcome the systemic barriers to equity that still exist in UK society and are particularly important…
There can be no equality; there can be no ‘MeToo’ movement, if we cannot talk about sex
I care about this issue because I know how much women have had to fight for the rights they currently hold and I can see how easily they are being eroded. Single sex spaces and the ability to define women as a sex class are both integral to being able to fight against and record…
I see it as child abuse
I care because I see it as child abuse- telling children they are born in the wrong body is wrong and committing them to a life of medication and ill health to promote an ideology based on fantasy, queer theory and profit is hideously wrong! I also see an erosion of women’s sex based rights…
I have a niece who insists everyone refer to them as “they” and they want to get a double mastectomy- they are 17
I care about this issue because gender ideology seems so obviously harmful, with more children and young adults wishing to become permanently medicalized and feeling they have to change their name simply because they don’t want to confirm to rigid sexist stereotypes. I have a niece who insists everyone refer to them as “they” and…
I see children being pushed into unhealthy choices
This matters to me because of the gross unfairness of women’s rights and voices being erased and the gaslighting of trying to convince us a man in a dress is a woman. It matters to me because I see children being pushed into unhealthy choices by societal pressures of the kind we have been trying…
I am outraged at the lies the gender lobby tell about female athletes
I care very much about the girls and women who are being mistaken or rumour mongered as masquerading as female , the hurt this causes them , the danger this puts them in. I am outraged at the lies the gender lobby tell about female athletes and the pretence that males entering female sports is…
The next argument would be let them decide when they can have sex
This matters because I have very young children. Trans rights activists want to indoctrinate my perfectly healthy children into thinking they can change/choose their gender. Dysphoria is a mental illness. People aren’t born in the wrong body. Particularly, if they do not present DSD. Stonewall are coming after the kids. I’ll give you crazy. this…
Children are being harmed and women’s rights dismantled
I care because children are being harmed and women’s rights dismantled. I try and speak about it to people I meet but only after carefully testing the water. I attend women’s groups and events. I have been blocked by a whole group of friends. J G, mlle_clunge
I help run the Women’s Human Rights Campaign website
This is important to me because gender ideology is a huge threat to the rights of women and girls. I fear that gender ideology is causing us to move away from truth and reality towards compelled language, pseudoscience and harmful nonsense being encoded into law with huge consequences for society. I have written to my…
I witnessed first hand the destruction of Women’s only space
I care because I witnessed first hand the destruction of Women’s only space that had been so essential to my own healing. I’ve posted on Social media, spoken in front of city council, attended a protest against the teaching of gender ideology to children, conducted meetups and events with other women to raise consciousness. I…
I have watched too many abused women and their children walk out of services …because they are no longer being treated as single sex spaces
I care because I have spent more than 20 years providing advocacy and support for victims of male violence and for the last few years have watched too many abused women and their children walk out of services other women fought tooth and nail to have provided for them, safe spaces away from men and…
This is for you mum
This matter was brought to my attention when my mum died suddenly in Nov 2019. She was banned from plaid cymru for stating the biological facts I spoke about things when my mum first died, but I was afraid of the impact on my non profit. I feel that Facebook has picked up that I…
My sister is transitioning into a transman
I care as a woman who has been raped about maintaining safe spaces for women. I care as the mother of a girl that she will be able to fully participate in sports without being edged out by a man who was subpar against other men. I care because my sister is transitioning into a…
All women need the security of female only spaces and fair representation
This matters to me because all women need the security of female only spaces and fair representation. Sexism cannot be addressed if we lose the ability to define each of the sexes unambiguously. I have handed out leaflets in the street and talked to people to ask them to fill in the GRA consultation in…
I have bought extra copies of academic books to share
This matters to me because freedom of speech , freedom of thought, freedom of belief and assembly are essential in a healthy democracy. 2018 – I was in a major National museum and noticed a Trans person (mtf) using a very busy female toilet full of young schools girls, mums with babies/toddlers etc. Unisex toilets were…
As a gay man, I thought I was part of a movement which was dismantling gender stereotypes
This matters to me because I’m a gay man who supports feminism. I see sexism as the fundamental structural inequality. It means that women are unsafe in their homes, workplaces and the street and disadvantaged in every part of their lives. It also means that lesbian, gay and bisexual people and all gender non-conforming people…
I’m grateful my daughter is grown up and not the toddler that insisted she was a boy
I care about women’s rights, freedom of speech, democracy. I dislike and fear authoritarian and violent nature of trans activism. I care about democracy and rights of women to meet, right to speak out. I care about accurate use of English language. I care about accurate data. I care about safeguarding children, and vulnerable women.…
I have been in hospital where I have felt very vulnerable
I work in children’s services in a disability organisation. I am extremely concerned with the disregard and flouting of basic safeguarding principles in gender ideology. I also have a disability & a health condition and I have been in hospital where I have felt very vulnerable. I do not wish to be on a mixed…
It offends me as a rational human being who knows humans cannot change sex
As a socialist and feminist it outrages me that women’s oppression is being redefined and repackaged as a privileged gender identity to which men belong. Our material existence as a sex class is being totally erased with real life consequences. We cannot argue for our share of resources when we’re not recognised. We cannot have…
Scotgov have effectively erased adult human females from legislation
This matters to me because pseudo-science, with zero-material evidence to support it, is used promote the lie that children can have a brain that ‘thought processes’ like that of the opposite sex. This is used to commit sterilisation and irreparable FGM on teenage girls and MGM on teen boys….crimes in my opinion endorsed by Government,…
As a grandmother I want the future of my my granddaughters…to include full participation in public life
This matters to me because as a grandmother I want the future of my my granddaughters in particular to include full participation in public life. The onslaught on the rights of women and children will limit that participation by making single sex facilities unsafe by allowing males free access. They will also be limited by…
I work in a university where there are no female toilets anymore
I care because self id has swept into every single workplace throughout the UK with no change in the law. I work in a university where there are no female toilets anymore, where disabled toilets have been renamed accessible to open them up for Trans/Non binary. A disabled toilet loses all meaning if you open…
It can only serve to make sexism worse by entrenching regressive sex stereotypes
I care because, as a male, I have long been horrified at how pervasive sexism has remained in society, and at how in some respects, we’ve taken steps backwards (e.g. increasingly pink/blue binary for children’s toys and clothes). To the extent that transgender activism deals with “innate gender identity” it can only serve to make…
It feels like just as we defeat climate denial then biology denial pops up
I’m particularly concerned on two fronts, first science denialism – biological sex is a material reality and very relevant to medical practice (my husband is a doctor). Females and males experience disease differently and so it is important to ensure that research and practice is able to continue to support this. It feels like just…
It seems like everything is up for grabs
This matters to me because I see opportunities being stripped from women and girls on a systematic basis. Women’s spaces, women’s sport, women’s identities – it seems like everything is up for grabs. I have voiced my opinion on social media, and made sure that my children hear my side of the argument. Tons of…