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  • Gender Lessons in Schools

    In August, The Scotsman reported on the new RSHP guidance (https://rshp.scot) which is set to be rolled out in schools. Of concern was the section on gender in the...

  • Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill

    Press Statement – Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill – Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee Meeting, Scottish Parliament, 06 December 2018 Forwomen.scot were grateful to the CTEEA Committee for listening to...

  • Hostelling Scotland and Serco (Caledonian Sleeper and Northlink Ferries) Update

    In June 2018, one of our/ManFriday members put Hostelling Scotland’s policy of “regardless of transgendered status, we will book an accommodation based on how our guests choose to be...

  • GRA 2004 – Consultation results

    Press Statement – Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, Analysis of responses to the public consultation exercise Note: The Scottish Government’s report of 23 Nov 2018 on the GRA...

  • ‘Proposals to Allow Self-identification of Gender’ Debate

    Press Statement – Proposals to Allow Self-identification of Gender, House of Commons, 21 November 2018 FWS was disappointed to hear of the extremely low turnout at the debate on ‘Proposals...

  • Women and Girls in Sport

    As part of their monthly spotlight ‘Have your say’ section, the National Advisory Council on Women and Girls requested feedback from individuals and groups on the topic of Women and...

  • Dear Everybody

     

  • “Woman” banned from Lothian buses

    Exterion Media, the company that controls advertising space for Lothian Buses, refused to display the dictionary definition of the word “woman” on the grounds that the message was “likely...

  • Edinburgh Live

    An article, published today, by Edinburgh Live mentioned our group, and contained this photograph: Given that the photograph of the sticker was taken from a tweet posted online on...

  • Poster Woman

    Meet Kellie, aka Posie Parker, who sells t-shirts printed with the dictionary definition of ‘woman’.  From the profits raised, Posie paid for a billboard displaying the same slogan at...