Open Letters - 2022
Open Letters - 2022
Open Letters on sex and gender debate - 2022
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WRN to John Lewis
22 Jan 2022
To: Dame Sharon White (DBE), chair of John Lewis partnership
From: Women's Rights Network
Subject: Regarding the fitting rooms and lack of consistent policy
Collect, analyze [sic] and report data of ‘LGBTQI+ people’
8 March 2022
To: Health, Education, Corporate, Government & Other Policy Leaders
From: National LGBT Cancer Network
Subject: Supporting a recent study report from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Network urge its use in practical to help understand the needs and experiences ‘(LGBTQI+) people’.
UK government urged to Support EHRC
19 March 2022
To: Boris Johnson & Liz Truss
From: Sex Matters
Subject: The letter calls for UK government to support the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to fulfil its mandate and produce guidance on the Equality Act 2010 in relation to single-sex services.
Clinicians support 'gender affirming care'
27 March 2022
From: clinicians and researchers who work with and study transgender and gender diverse youth
Subject: They wish to state for the public record, we do not support efforts to ban 'gender affirming care'.
Make Soteria findings public
29 April 2022
To: UK Home Secretary
From: a group of rape crisis centres, support services and campaigners
Subject: calling for findings from Operation Soteria to be made public.
Supporting the ‘full inclusion of transgender and all LGBTQI youth’
22 June 2022
To: USA state policymakers
From: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Subject: A call ‘to reject attacks on transgender and non-binary youth’.
‘Dangerously transphobic minority’ in Higher Education
24 June 2022
To: the Advance board of HE
From: Members of HE sector
Subject: Asserting ‘the importance of including trans and non-binary people in HE’ and concern of ‘a worrying watering down’ on the ‘commitment to inclusion’ following public criticism from a ‘dangerously transphobic minority’.
NEU LGBT+ demand tweet deletion supporting FILIA
13 July 2022
To: Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union,
From: National Education Union LGBT+ Organising Forum and other signatories,
Subject: Calls for Kevin Courtney to delete a tweet & retweet supporting FILIA and 'to no longer use his Union affiliated account to post in support of FiLiA, or any other transphobic organisations.'
Proclamation of support for ‘LGBTQ+ students’
20 Sept 2022
To: Yeshiva University
From: Faculty Of The Undergraduate Schools (Yeshiva College , Stern College and Sy Syms School of Business)
Subject: 'To proclaim our support for the LGBTQ+ students of the colleges.’
‘SHOCK’ at Helen Joyce speaking at Cambridge University!
13 Oct 2022
To: Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University
From: Cambridge University LGBT+ campaign
Subject: Statement on how they are ‘shocked and highly disappointed’ by the decision to invite Helen Joyce to speak at the university.
(The letter can also be found via this Linktree link)
Academics demand apology from LSE
5 Nov 2022
To: London School of Economics (LSE)
From: Open University Gender critical research network
Subject: Academics demand apology from LSE over 'hostile environment for gender-critical staff and students'
Rape Crisis Scotland statement to Reem Asalem
29 Nov 2022
To: Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls
From: Rape Crisis Scotland
Subject: Writing regarding her intervention of November 23rd regarding Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill
We don't agree with Reem Asalem
30 Nov 2022
To: Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women and Girls
From: Amnesty Scotland & 'Women's and Human Rights organisations'
Subject: They restate their support for Gender Recognition Reform.
A letter concerning Higher education freedom of speech bill
29 Dec 2022
To: Claire Coutinho, in charge of the act
From: a group of mathematicians
Subject: Expressing their support for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill.