Working party to resolve the issues with the Gender Recognition ACT 2004 and with other affected legislation.
The forum for this discussion is on Slack, you will need to be registered to participate.
The next Zoom meeting to discuss the reform/repeal of the Gender Recognition Act plus other of our initiatives championed by Sarah Phillimore will take place on 6th September at 8pm. Links to the meeting will be sent to all subscribers by 8pm on 5th September We look forward to seeing you there.
Female Law Project – Legal Feminist have also submitted a proposal for this to FiLia. They are considering both. We are keen not to duplicate efforts. Sarah to chase Raquel in a week or so. Jess has got an initial quote for a website build for this if required PCC/Police forces A follow up letter …
Background For a very clear and useful explanation of what the hell is going on please see this post from Glinner by JL In essence: The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. Although the UK signed up …
AN EMAIL TO THE ‘PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL’ TO BE HELD ON 21st, 22nd and 23rd June 2021 Read More »
At the meeting on 13th May 2021 I agreed to set down my thoughts about how best to challenge these surveys. I hope you find this helpful as I will suggest ways of framing a letter to your organisation. I had some success with my regulator the Bar Standards Board. Initially their survey question for …
It was certainly an interesting meeting! we had our first ‘disrupters’ who played us some music, told us that ‘female violence’ was the root of all the problems and wrote ‘LOLOLOLOLOL’ in the chat group. I have decided that this is a tribute to GRARG’s increasing profile and effectiveness; mainly due to the excellent #AskYourPCC …
On April 7th 2021 GRARG member ArtlessFeckleblossom posed a question for all the would be Police and Crime Commissioners standing for election on May 6th. Her letter is here. Thanks to the efforts of many volunteers we were able to put these questions to the majority of the candidates across the country. We made it …
Zoom link for meeting We need to make sure we are complimenting and not duplicating the work of other groups which are challenging the harmful conflation of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in official policies, advice and legistation. This may cause some tension when contacting other groups, as the fundamental founding principle of GRARG is that we …
GRARG Going forward. MEETING 18th MARCH 2021 8pm Read More »
Next meeting: FEBRUARY 18th 2021 Time 8pm Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86798717951?pwd=d2kzbnRUZGo1YitKRjJheDFjMy9KQT09 AGENDA Set short and medium term strategy Report on progress at next meeting. End the conflation of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in legal/policy/organisation’s documents. If this conflation can be removed, much of the difficulties with the current GRA will go. Members to examine submissions to the …
Dear Ms Rose I write to you as CEO of the NatWest Group to express a number of concerns arising out of NatWest’s response to the Women and Equalities Committee on 26th November 2020. This letter is signed by a number of others, some of whom are customers of NatWest and who have indicated this …
A letter to Ms Alison Rose, CEO of the NatWest Group Read More »
Thanks to all who attended and shared their stories. We remain open to all. The next meeting is 12 November 2020 8pm https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4247888422 We found ourselves with renewed focus after the announcement of two important consulations: Toilet provision for men and women And We agreed to meet again on 12th November in order to discuss …
