Open Letters: July - Dec 2024
Open Letters: July - Dec 2024
Open Letters on sex and gender debate - July to December 2024
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Warnings to Labour Colleagues
5th July 2024
To: Labour Party Colleagues
From: Paul Embery
Subject: A series of warnings to the Labour party, who were elected on 5th May 2024
GLAAD's 'rapid response' to Cass
10th July 2024
To: Editor of British Medical Journal
From: GLADD Co-Chairs Raphael Kohn & Kit Tigwell
Subject: A "Rapid response" to an opinion paper published in BMJ titled "Medical institutions must treat the Cass review as a significant event and act upon it"
Ditch the Conservatives’ RSHE guidance
11th July 2024
To: Labour Government
From: 100 organisations "working across education, safeguarding, child sexual abuse, VAWG, mental health, online safety and LGBT+ inclusion"
Subject: The letter urges the new Labour government to ditch the Conservatives’ draft relationships and sex education (RSHE) guidance.
Wes must withdraw his support for 'puberty blocker' ban
16th July 2024
To: Health secretary, Wes Streeting
From: "Labour for trans rights"
Subject: Calling on Wes Streeting to immediately withdraw “his support for the ban on puberty blockers for trans young people”.
'Serious concerns' about Streeting
19th July 2024
To: Wes Streeting, Health Secretary
From: Carla Denyer, Sian Berry
Subject: "Expressing our serious concerns about his recent statement on puberty blockers on 14th July"
Academics dismayed by Higher Education Act axe
28th July 2024
From: 42 academics
Subject: The writers express their 'dismay at Labour's education secretary Bridget Phillipson’s decision [made 26/7/24] to “stop further commencement of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act.
Academics defend Higher Education Act
2nd August 2024
To: Bridget Phillipson MP
From: Academics for academic freedom
Subject: The writers defend the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act which, under a new Labour government, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has now axed.
BMA must follow the Cass Review
2nd Aug 2024
To: BMA, Professor Banfield BMA Council Chair
From: 195,000 BMA members & medical professionals
Subject: The writers call on the BMA to abandon the 'pointless exercise' to 'critique' Cass Review and to welcome and follow it as other medical organisations have done. Press, Press 2
Stand with Olympian Imane Khelif
4th Aug 2024
From: Adele Fisher with 26,583 signatures as of 15/08/24
Subject: The writer addresses what they deem the "unfair hate" that Olympian male boxer, Imane Khelif has allegedly been subjected to while competing in [and winning] the Female Boxing category at the Olympics. The letter "seeks to rally support on a global scale for Imane Khelif".
UCL 'LGBTQ+' Sex Clarification
5th Aug 2024
To: UCL EDI and HR
From: Michelle Shipworth
Subject: The writer urges that after Lizzy Pitt settlement with Cambridgeshire County Council, UCL should make it 'Crystal clear' lesbians and gay men are welcome to create single sex only events.
Bring sex test back in sport
5th Aug 2024
From: RadFem Italia, Women’s Declaration International, WomensLibFront (WoLF), Feminist Post, Rete per l’Inviolabilità del Corpo Femminile,SeNonOraQuando Sisters, I-Dee, and groups & individuals around the world
Subject: In light of the controversy at Olympics 2024, the writers "wish to support the proposal of Reem Alsalem, special rapporteur on violence against women at the United Nations, to reintroduce the chromosomal sex test in order to "ensure the physical safety of all female athletes"."
“The gender critical movement and the far right”
13th Aug 2024
From: GC Anti Far Right including Rosie Duffield MP
Subject: The writers state that, since the UK Southport murders, they are "deeply disturbed that populist messages particularly targeting Muslims" from social media accounts associated with the "gender critical movement", and that "one major account in particular has actively fanned the flames of racist violence".
"BPS are failing the membership, practitioners and the public"
15th Aug 2024
To: Professor Tony Lavender, Chair of the Practice Board of The British Psychological Society & BPS board
From: Pat Harvey, David Pilgrim, Peter Harvey, BPS members, Clinical Psychologists.
Subject: A scathing response to the "Guidelines for Psychologists Working with Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity" which were released in June 2024. The writers are "appalled" by the official and definitive BPS position on Gender and "believe that the content of the document and the gross ideological bias of the authors will bring the BPS into further disrepute"
A GC Letter Response
16th Aug 2024
To: To the writers of the GC anti far right letter
From: "A fellow TERF"
Subject: The writer responds to the 'gravity of allegations" set out in “Statement on the gender critical movement and the far right”.
Demands for the Prime Minister to Tackle the Root Causes of Far-Right Riots
20th Aug 2024
To: UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer
From: 'UK’s specialist violence against women, anti-racist and migrants’ rights organisations'
Subject: The writers call on the Sir Keir Starmer to carry out 12 demands to tackle "racist violence fuelled by far-right, anti-Muslim and anti-immigration sentiments following the Southport attack".
Harris quizzed on women's rights
7th August 2024
To: Kamala Harris, presidential candidate for Democrat party
From: Kara Dansky
Subject: Kara Dansky urges Vice President Kamala Harris to prove the Democrat party is 'reality based' by stating that women are adult human females and issue an apology to women and girls for celebrating Dylan Mulvaney's “365 days of girlhood.”
Open Letter to UNAIDS by LBORI
21st August 2024
To: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
From: WDI USA Lesbian caucus
Subject: The writers express their opposition to the 2024 “UNAIDS Terminology Guidelines" and that "lesbian" is a sexual orientation not a "Gender identity"
OPEN LETTER TO UN WOMEN
24th August 2024
To: UN Women
From: United Women for Women's rights
Subject: The letter calls for UN Women to reinstate its original mission and to repudiate their statement which referred to those critical of “gender identity” as “anti-rights” groups, labelling all dissent as "dangerous far-right” and propagating “hate speech” against the “LGBTQI+ community”.
BPS Chair responds to open letter
3rd September 2024
To: BPS members, Clinical Psychologists Pat Harvey, David Pilgrim, Peter Harvey
From: Professor Tony Lavender, Chair of the Practice Board of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
Subject: A response to an open letter from BPS members. (see 15th Aug on this page)
No men in women's changing rooms
19th September 2024
To: University of East Anglia @SportsparkUEA
From: Patriots of Britain on behalf of Students Against Tyranny
Subject: An audio letter regarding letting men in female changing rooms.
Legislative Reform for Women’s Right
2nd October 2024
To: Anthony Albanese MP,
From: Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights (AF4WR)
Subject: The writers relay their concerns of the problems with the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (as amended 2013). Tweet
EBSWA challenges Social Work England
10th Oct 2024
To: Social Work England
From: EBSWA
Subject: The letter urges that Social Work England must recognise sex and not gender identity.
Activists criticise Cass Review in open letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting
15th October 2024
To: Health Secretary Wes Streeting
From: 100 organisations and activists including 'Transactual'
Subject: The writers express a 'deep lack of confidence' in the Cass Review. Pink News article
Open letter sent to all TDs including Neasa Hourigan
18th October 2024
To: All members of Dáil Éireann in Iridh Government
From: Colin Mangan
Subject: The writer offers a scathing letter of Neasa Hourigan's "frankly ludicrous and dangerous statement in the Dáil about the Cass Report" Tweet
NO “trans-inclusive" ban on conversion practices
19th October 2024
To: Prime Minister Keir Starmer
From: James Esses & 140 'prominent signatories'
Subject: The letter demands that Keir Starmer does not press forward with a proposed “trans-inclusive" ban on conversion practices
Strong opposition to the European Commission’s participation in the Pornfilmfestival Berlin
20th October 2024
To: European Commission
From: Platforma Portugeusa
Subject: The writers strongly urge the European Commission to "reconsider its participation in the Pornfilmfestival Berlin and to distance itself from future collaborations with the pornography industry"
Concerns Over Trans Golfers Competing Against Women
22nd October 2024
To: LPGA
From: 275 Female golfers
Subject: Female golfers express their concerns over male golfers who identify as women competing in the women's category
GLADD response to Cass Review
28th October 2024
From: GLADD, Association of 'LGBTQ+ Doctors and dentists'
Subject: A response time the Cass Review outlining their concerns, which include language, and 'troubling' narratives.
Call to remove gender identity ideology from school curriculum
3rd Nov 2024
To: Minister Foley
From: Jana K. Landon, Natural Women's Council Ireland
Subject: Referencing experts who state concerns that gender identity ideology is harmful to children, Ms Landon asks for "an immediate cessation of the SPHE curriculum until a full investigation is complete as the material is not fit for purpose in the classroom"