Open Letters: 2025 (July to Dec)
Open letters on sex and gender debate
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Government’s Proposed Definition of “Islamophobia”
3rd July 2025
From: Faith groups and secular organisations
Subject: Groups across faith, secular, and political lines urge the UK government to drop its proposed definition of “Islamophobia,” warning it confuses criticism of religion with racism, threatens free speech, silences reformist voices, and risks fuelling division. They say existing laws are sufficient.
Ban puberty blockers in private sector
4th August 2025
To: Wes Streeting, Health Secretary
From: Susan Evans plus 2 women
Subject: Three women warn that private clinics are giving vulnerable children cross-sex hormones without safeguards, defying the Cass Review and NHS standards, risking irreversible harm. They urge urgent action to ban such treatments in the private sector.
An Appeal to M&S over ‘Transphobia’
6th August 2025
To: Marks and Spencers
From: “Concerned UK Resident” with 1000+ signatories
Subject: The open letter urges M&S to retract its apology to a customer offended by a employee who identified as ‘trans’, warning it legitimised transphobia, undermined staff protections, and risks further harassment. Over 1,500 have signed, calling on M&S to uphold equality and support transgender staff.
Trans activist Senator condemns Amy Hamm from behind a block
18th August 2025
To: Raymonde Gagné, Speaker of the Senate in Canada
From: Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights - caWsbar
Subject: The writers condemn Senator Kristopher Wells for making “atrocious” comments about Amy Hamm on X while blocking her and others, denying them a right of reply. The group cited a federal court ruling that public officials cannot block citizens on social media and urged the Speaker to remind Wells of his legal obligations.
Parent accuses NHS of "cruelty" to "transgender youth"
21st August 2025
To: Stephen Kinnock, Minister for Health
From: "Parent of an adult transgender daughter"
Subject: A parent writes to Health Minister Stephen Kinnock expressing “anger and heartbreak” over NHS “cruelty” toward “transgender youth,” accusing it of “denying care” and causing “state-sanctioned harm.” The letter condemns the “WellBN Brighton” investigation as a “witch hunt” and urges Kinnock to “stand up” for trans youth instead of allowing them to be used as “political pawns in a culture war.”
Call for the BBC to return to accurate language around biological sex
29th August 2025
To: BBC, Dr Shah and Mr Davie
From: SEEN in Journalism
Subject: Open letter urges the BBC to drop “preferred pronouns” and return to biological sex descriptors, arguing current policy misleads the public, undermines women’s rights, harms children, and breaches journalistic integrity.
“The greatest medical and political delusion of the 21st century”
3rd September 2025
To: UK Government and its Parliamentarians
From: Dr Joseph Chrysostom MBBS, MS (Gen Surg), FRCSEd
Subject: Dr Joseph Chrysostom condemns what he calls the “greatest medical and political delusion of the 21st century” — the belief that a man can become a woman or vice versa. He accuses the NHS and government of deceiving the public, inflicting harm on young people, and funding “surgical mutilations” under false pretences.
He calls for an immediate ban on these operations and on cross-sex hormones, and demands a fraud investigation into the NHS and related bodies. Dr Chrysostom warns that failure to act will mark this era as one of “systematic medical abuse” of vulnerable youth.
Dr Chrysostom also wrote two open letters to parents/carers and young people telling the truth about so-called ‘affirming care’ and all the potential harms that go with it:
To parents contemplating deceptive gender surgeries
To young adults contemplating deceptive gender surgeries
Police Scotland are failing to protect women
7th September 2025
To: Police Scotland
From: Clare Blom, Women Won't Wheesht
Subject: Clare Blom accuses Police Scotland of repeatedly failing to protect women at For Women Scotland and Women Won’t Wheesht protests, allowing male counter-protesters to harass and intimidate them without consequence. She warns that police tolerance of such behaviour has destroyed public trust, which is now “hanging by a gossamer thread.”
Resignation from Trans Pride Portsmouth because of safety concerns
7th September 2025
To: Trans Pride Portsmouth Committee
From: Alison Cyde
Subject: The writer resigns from Trans Pride Portsmouth, citing repeated negative and disruptive behaviour by committee member Toni 'they/them', culminating in an incident where Toni exposed his genitals without consent. She raises concerns about personal safety, lack of confidence in internal resolution due to Toni’s relationships with other committee members, and the serious reputational risk such behaviour poses to the organisation and wider 'trans community'.
Voices of Afghan women must not be ignored
9th September 2025
To: United Nations & UN Women's Watch
From: 1113 women who live inside Afghanistan
Subject: The writers urge action against Taliban oppression. They say women have been stripped of education, work, healthcare, and public life, forced into child marriage, imprisoned, and even stoned to death. The letter demands political and legal pressure on the Taliban, removal of restrictions, women’s full participation in decision-making, accountability for human rights abuses, and protection for those resisting. They plead: “We are not silent. But will the world stand with us?”
650 businesses tell UK Government single sex spaces "unworkable"
16th September 2025
To: UK Government, Bridget Phillipson, Peter Kyle
From: 650 businesses including Ben & Jerry's & Lush
Subject: Signatories urge the UK government to reject Equality and Human Rights Commission proposals that would bar trans women from single-sex spaces following a Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. They warn the draft code is “unworkable,” would cause “significant economic harm,” create “unworkable operational challenges,” force staff into the role of “gender police,” and undermine “modern business values,” with campaigners saying it would be “unfair, unworkable” and risk making the UK an “international outlier” on "LGBT+ equality".
Why Compromise on Reality Is Neither Possible nor Strategic
9th November 2025
To: "Women who’ve recently joined the fight"
From: Jane Berns - Women Are Real, Kara Dansky - The TERF Report, Jennifer Sey - XX-XY Athletics, Kim Jones - ICONS
Subject: The letter urges women defending sex-based rights not to seek compromise with gender identity ideology. The authors argue that recognising categories like “transsexual” erases sex in law, activists reject all middle ground, and sex is an immutable reality, not a belief. They call for clarity over compromise and encourage women to stay firm in defending biological truth.
‘BBC’s pro-trans bias damaged our children’
19th November
To: Ofcom
From: 100s of parents from Bayswater Support Group
Subject: Parents accuse the BBC of a “constant drip-feed of one-sided pro-trans content” that they say has “damaged our children” and breached the broadcaster’s duties of impartiality and safeguarding. They argue the BBC ignored concerns for years, promoted transition to vulnerable children, sidelined dissenting voices - including detransitioners - and failed to address repeated complaints about biased news coverage and children’s programming. They urge Ofcom to launch an independent investigation, saying the BBC’s output has contributed to a “dangerous culture” that harmed young people and misled families.
Ban ‘Women Won’t Wheesht’ book - again!
21st November 2025
To: National Library of Scotland
From: Signatories from ‘academic, heritage, arts, literary and cultural sectors’,
Subject: Signatories urge the National Library of Scotland to once again remove The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht from its centenary exhibition, arguing that the book—written by gender-critical feminists—creates an unsafe and hostile environment for queer and trans staff. They claim the book’s inclusion has emboldened anti-trans harassment, caused material harm to staff and visitors, and reflects leadership decisions that prioritised “gender critical” views over staff safety.
Statement in response from Editors of the book Susan Dalgety & Lucy Hunter Blackburn
"Immediately halt" puberty blockers trial
24th November 2025
To: Health Secretary, Wes Streeting
From: Susan and Marcus Evans
Subject: Tavistock whistleblowers, Susan and Marcus Evans, urge Wes Streeting to “immediately halt this trial”, arguing it repeats the failures exposed by the Cass Review and Tavistock GIDS. They say the evidence base is weak, long-term risks remain unknown, a two-year trial cannot capture lifelong harms, and children cannot give meaningful consent. They warn blockers often lead to further medicalisation and note other countries have already moved to restrict them. They call for stopping the trial, restarting long-term follow-up of the original cohort, and prioritising psychological support over medical intervention.
Stop the unethical puberty blockers trials
24th November 2025
To: Health Secretary, Wes Streeting
From: Maya Forstater, Sex Matters
Subject: The letter urges the Health Secretary to “stop this trial” and “close the loophole”, arguing it is “unethical” because a far better alternative already exists: the Cass-recommended data-linkage study, which needs no new prescriptions and provides stronger, faster evidence. It says the For Women Scotland ruling means doctors cannot promise treatment will let a child “live as the opposite sex ‘for all purposes’”, undermining the rationale for blockers. The author warns the trial would “cause foreseeable harm”, yield weaker data than the retrospective study, and pursue aims now “incompatible with the law.”
Withdraw support for the puberty-blocker trial
3rd December 2025
To: Dr. Hillary Cass
From: Genspect
Subject: The letter urges Dr. Cass to withdraw support for the puberty-blocker trial, calling it “unethical in principle and unsafe in practice” and built on a “foundational premise” that is “a fiction.” They argue the PATHWAYS study is “conceptually flawed,” that puberty blockers “halt the natural process of sexual maturation” and cause harms that “unfold only in adulthood,” and that children cannot grasp “lifelong infertility” or “impaired sexual functioning.”
Understand the harms of puberty blockers Wes Streeting
17th December 2025
To: Wes Streeting, UK Health secretary
From: Biology in Medicine
Subject: Following Wes Streeting’s appearance on LBC radio show, a group of doctors and healthcare colleagues urge the Health Minister to listen to them regarding the “harms and poor information” concerning puberty blockers.
“Grave disquiet” about puberty blocker trials
18th December 2025
To: Wes Streeting, UK Health secretary
From: a group of clinicians, academics and researchers
Subject: The writers express their “grave disquiet” about the planned puberty blocker trials. They assert “professionals expressing concern have been marginalized” in developing the trials and urge Streeting to take the time to listen to alternative views.
Tavistock whistleblower follows up letter on puberty blocker trials
31st December 2025
To: Health Secretary, Wes Streeting
From: Marcus Evans
Subject: Tavistock whistleblower follows-up his earlier letter to the Health Secretary warning about puberty blocker trials. Evans says current puberty blocker policy focuses on medical action instead of understanding patients’ underlying psychological distress. He warns this repeats mistakes made at the Tavistock and risks harming vulnerable young people by treating symptoms without addressing deeper causes.
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