Response to the draft bill Conversion Practices (Prohibition} Bill proposed by The Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle
Lesbian Rights Alliance Response to the draft bill Conversion Practices (Prohibition} Bill proposed by The Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle What is the Lesbian Rights Alliance The Lesbian Rights Alliance has…
Advice to schools on addressing gender identity issues
Open letter to Gillian Keegan, Secretary of State for Education Advice to schools on addressing gender identity issues Dear Gillian Keegan, I am writing to you on behalf of the…
Response to letter to Minister for women and equalities
Within one week of despatching a letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities the Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP, the LRA received the following reponse to our letter to…
The Inclusion of ‘trans people’ in the Conversion Therapy Bill
Letter to Kemi Badenoch MP Minister for Women and Equalities Dear Kemi The Inclusion of ‘trans people’ in the Conversion Therapy Bill I am writing to you on behalf of…
Lesbians International Rights
Lesbians International Rights The UN Declaration on women’s sex based rights recognises lesbians’ same sex attraction rights and rights to associate and assemble in lesbian only groups and spaces. Sex…
LRA statement to Bristol City Council
Statement from the Lesbian Rights Alliance (LRA) Bristol Branch to Bristol City Council’s draft ‘Trans Inclusion and Gender Identity Policy’. 09/10/2022 The LRA is a national lesbian feminist organisation. Its…
Banning conversion therapy
PHYSICAL CONVERSION THERAPY The Lesbian Rights Alliance exists to stand up for the rights of lesbians and to prevent lesbian erasure. The Lesbian Rights Alliance exists to stand up for…
Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s Liberation
Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne (eds) What was it like to participate in the Women’s Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join…
Complaint to the Department for Education
The Department for Education is ‘proud to support Just Like Us UK’s School Diversity Week’. Department For Education A superficial examination of this organisation’s content reveals that its ethos is…
A Critical Review of Kathleen Stock’s Material Girl
By Dr Heather-Brunskell Evans Kathleen Stock’s Material Girls makes a significant theoretical and practical contribution to gender identity politics and how to balance the human rights of people who identify…
Why Feminism Matters for Feminism
By Dr Julia Long In her new book, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, philosophy professor Kathleen Stock carefully toes the line on what is acceptable within mainstream discourse…
Jo Bartosch talks to Lynne Harne
Jo Bartosch talks to Lynne Harne “We should be allowed to assert our exclusivity as a group of women who are sexually-attracted to other women.” As with many feminists of…
London Mayoral Elections 2021
Questions for the election of the Police and Crime Commissioners, including the Mayors of London and Manchester You can write to those standing for election and ask them to reply….
The Yogyakarta Principles: women’s rights were not considered
Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law at Kings College London, is an expert on anti-discrimination law and sexual orientation law, and was one of the co-authors of the influential…
Submission to the Government Consultation on Toilets
Lesbian Rights Alliance Submission to the Government Consultation on Toilets (technical review) IntroductionThe Lesbian Rights Alliance represents lesbian individuals and lesbian groups all over England and Wales. As lesbian women…
Census guidance on the sex question ruled unlawful
Census day is 21 March 2021. Yesterday, in a challenge brought by Fair Play For Women, the High Court ordered the Office for National Statistics to correct the guidance they…
Letter To The BBC Director General
Tim Davie, BBC Director-General Dear Mr. Davie, I wonder if you are aware of a CBeebies video currently airing on the BBC under the title, CBeebiesplaylist – Videos to make…
Census 2021
PRESS RELEASE With a month to go until the census on March 21, campaigners have launched the Sex in the Census campaign to protest the last minute decision by the…
Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC)
Presentation by Dr Lynne Harne, to the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) meeting held on 18th October 2020. Lynne Harne – How to influence politicians and policy-makers?
To the Unsung Heroines
A Love “Letter” to My Sisters Who Made a Difference It was the evening of Pride 2012 and I found myself in unlikely company, three-months pregnant sitting in the middle…
Letter To Liz Truss MP
Dear Liz Truss I am writing to you as the Chair of the Lesbian Rights Alliance (LRA) following your recent statement to the Women and Equalities Committee. First of all,…
Statutory Guidance To Schools On Relationships and Sex Education 2019
LETTER For the attention of Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Education. I am writing as the Chair of the Lesbian Rights Alliance (LRA) to express our concerns about the…
A Meaningful Transition?
By Dr Julia Long If you can’t change your sex, why are the terms ‘transsexual’ and ‘transwoman’ lent credence among British gender critical feminists? Jennifer Bilek’s important recent article on…
Compelled speech in the courtroom
This important article by Maureen O’Hara in the Coventry Law Journal clarifies and critiques how gaslighting and compelled speech is affecting our legal system. Compelled speech: gaslighting in the courtroom…
Teaching Pack LGBT Hate Crime : Crime Prosecution Service
To Chris Long Chief Crown Prosecutor and CPS national lead on Hate Crime Crown Prosecution Service Email: CPSPrivateoffice@cps.gov.uk Dear Mr Long, I am writing to you on behalf of the…
Impact of Gender Recognition Reform on Sex Based Rights
This briefing note concerns the way the Equality Act 2010 (“EqA 2010”) and the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (“GRA 2004”) interact. It is intended to accompany the slides presented in…
Response from EHRC ref: 404 Harne
Here is the reply from the EHRC to our letter hand delivered to the EHRC The response was titled 404 HarneEHRC response. 404 is the prefix to error pages and…
The EHRC and Lesbian Discrimination
Equality and Human Rights Commission Dear EHRC, The EHRC and Lesbian Discrimination The law on discrimination against lesbians in the Equality Act, 2010 Lesbians are women who are same sex…
Womens Rights Are Human Rights
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Progressive folk should surely celebrate when a charity promotes the ‘human rights (as set out in the universal declaration of human rights and subsequent united…