Health

  • Letter to Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

    Following the publication of Review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender by Professor Alice Sullivan we sent the following letter to the Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary...

  • Another letter to First Minister

    After writing to the First Minister a week ago we had hoped Mr Swinney would be more on top of his brief regarding women’s rights to single-sex spaces. However,...

  • Letter to First Minister

    In what The Scotsman termed a “fiery exchange” in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, John Swinney faced increasing pressure to clarify the legal position regarding provision of separate sex changing...

  • Letter to Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

    We joined Sex Matters, MurrayBlackburnMackenzie and Fair Play for Women in sending the following letter to Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, calling on him to...

  • The Problem with Pete

    Imagine, if you will, a man called Pete. Pete is a manly-man, tall, with a beard and well-developed muscles. He’s also not real – or at least there may...

  • Rules of Misogyny

    There’s a much referenced list which circulates in women’s groups: created by Rose, a second-wave feminist known by the internet username ‘TheBewilderness’, it is called the Rules of Misogyny...

  • NHS CHI Number…again

    An article in today’s Telegraph “Scots NHS unsure how many trans patients have taken ‘risk’ by changing sex on records” reported on the number of patients who have changed...

  • NHS boards requested CMO adopt Cass Review recommendations

    An article in yesterday’s Telegraph SNP government’s health chief urged to adopt Cass Review by senior doctors and another in today’s Times Top doctor challenged over transgender care covered...

  • Ending conversion practices in Scotland

    This is our submission to the Scottish Government consultation on their proposals for criminal and civil legislation aiming to end all conversion practices in Scotland. The consultation document can...

  • NHS CHI Number

    We sent the following letter to Dr Gregor Smith, the Chief Medical Officer on 2nd October. As you are aware today marks the start of Speak Up Week 2023...