For Women Scotland

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  • Demonstration – 7th March

    Please join us for a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament at: 2pm on Saturday 7th March (to coincide with the Scottish Women’s Convention and the day before International Women’s Day). All women and...

  • Women’s Rights and Academic Freedom – Part 2

    On January 21st we published this blog post telling the sorry tale of how the University of Edinburgh is systematically promoting an uncritical acceptance of gender identity ideology, while...

  • Women’s Rights and Academic Freedom

    According to the tenets of gender identity ideology, every individual has an inner gendered self which manifests as gender identity (a sense of maleness or femaleness) – and this...

  • Meeting with Scottish Government Officials

    We were very surprised to see the consultation paper that accompanies the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill state that a member of Forwomen.Scot had met with Scottish Government officials...

  • Equally Safe Funding Conditions

    The Scottish Government funds organisations working towards the outcomes in their Equally Safe policy for eradicating violence against women and girls. Funds were last awarded in 2017 for a...

  • Sandyford

    A recent Freedom of Information response, as reported in today’s The Times, has revealed that referrals for Scottish children to the Sandyford Young People’s Gender Service have risen by...

  • FWS response to Scottish Government consultation on GRA reform

    For Women Scotland welcomes the further consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act.  We hope that the process will be evidence based and transparent, and will take into...

  • LGBT Youth Scotland – Freedom of Information Request

    In 2017, guidance for schools was published by LGBT Youth Scotland, entitled “Supporting Transgender Young People: Guidance for Schools in Scotland”. While its aim was to help schools support...

  • The Danger of Self ID Policies in Women’s Combat Sport

    The following blog post was contributed by an anonymous writer. I have been involved in boxing for a long time, and it is a brutal, violent and dangerous sport....

  • Consultation with Stakeholders – update

    Following on from our earlier blog article, the Parliamentary Questions raised by Jeremy Balfour have now been answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville as follows: