Open Letters

  • Letter to First Minister – Ministerial Code breach

    We’ve been here before. Back in 2022, the Scottish Government spun the Parliament one story – that issuing Gender Recognition Certificates on the basis of self-identification of sex would...

  • Civil service participation in Pride

    Following the High Court ruling against Northumbria Police on 16 July 2025, which said participation in Pride marches breached the force’s impartiality duties, we sent the following letter to...

  • Letter to Permanent Secretary

    Since our UK Supreme Court judgment in April there has been almost ten weeks of prevaricating by the Scottish Government and little, if anything, by way of action to...

  • 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 Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills

    The Herald article Schools could face Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute highlighted our comments that local authorities that fail to uphold the School Premises Regulations on separate sex facilities for...

  • 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...

  • Feminist groups write to Nicola Sturgeon

    As reported in The Herald we, and other women’s groups, have written to Nicola Sturgeon asking her to provide detail, rather than “dropping broad hints” about “shadowy forces” who...

  • 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...