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The Darlington nurses have spoken publicly on Good Morning Britain about their employment tribunal case. They describe how raising concerns about privacy and dignity led to distress, isolation and complaints being dismissed. The tribunal found unlawful harassment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CciU...

Three UK Labour MPs — Joani Reid, Tonia Antoniazzi and Mary Glindon — have signed a cross-party petition urging Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust to drop disciplinary action against nurse Jennifer Melle, supporting fairness for health workers facing racial abuse and legal uncertainty in the workplace.

An Employment Tribunal has ruled that the Darlington nurses were unlawfully harassed and discriminated against after being required to share women’s changing rooms with a male colleague. This case underlines the need for clear guidance — and for trade unions to stand firmly with women members.

We hear from Labour supporters every day who want women’s rights respected in policy. If that reflects your view, please sign our declaration: labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/sign-the-dec...

Happy New Year from Labour Women’s Declaration. Thank you for your support in 2025. As we move into 2026, please follow our channels, sign the Declaration, and help strengthen women’s voice in Labour. labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/sign-the-dec...

Ali Harris and Prof Shazia Choudhry have been appointed as interim commissioners to the EHRC.

🎄 Merry Christmas from Labour Women’s Declaration. Thank you for standing with us this year. If you haven’t yet, please sign the Declaration and support our work in 2026. 💫 labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/sign-the-dec...

Several LWD supporters will be attending this cross party event tomorrow. We've also asked supporters to write to your MPs alerting them to the dangers to children of this harmful & unnecessary drugs trial. See link for our model letter labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/wp-content/u... #StopTheTrial

“One in ten children receiving NHS gender care are self-medicating with opposite sex hormones” A deeply concerning finding reported by @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, raising serious safeguarding & clinical questions that demand urgent attention www.newstatesman.com/investigatio...

Breaking: Sandie Peggie has confirmed she will appeal. Ben Cooper KC, who acted in the For Women Scotland case, will lead the appeal. Watch here: x.com/PA/status/19... Shereen Benjamin (LWD Scotland), journalist Susan Dalgety and former MSP Jenny Marra stood in support of Sandie today.

Strong, focused question from Jackie Baillie MSP today following the Sandie Peggie case, calling for a single, consistent approach across Scotland so women don’t have to complain individually just to have the law applied at work. Exactly the right point to press.

Staggering arrogance and stupidity from McDonnell. We all know what sex we are. There's no reason for men to break the law and use women's single-sex spaces. They can simply respect women's boundaries or can be told to leave. Women matter in society, law, culture, politics ... and elections!

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Good to see Sarah Vine KC is @thetimes.com Lawyer of the Week. Listen here to her wit and wisdom on the government’s sex & gender policy plans at our #LWDLiverpool25 fringe meeting in Liverpool

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Lord Pannick: "Does she agree it is today the obligation of all persons, whether private or public, to comply with the judgment of the Supreme Court, whether you agree with it or not, & without waiting for guidance?" @Jacqui_Smith1 for government: "Yes, I do agree with that... x.com/LabWomenDec/...

This is the oppression ladder in action. A black lesbian counts for less than a white man who claims to be a woman. BTW: this man has served time for drug dealing and has domestic abuse on his record. How can anyone think this is OK?

Virginia Giuffre's story is so shocking, yet familiar: the same story of vulnerable girls getting abused again & again by powerful men with the Royal Family far too slow to sanction Andrew Windsor. My column for this week's @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/sonia-sodha-...

"The atmosphere was electric"♀️ Hard-hitting speeches with clear messages for @UKLabour policy makers to hear Listen now to: Susan Smith @ForWomenScot Sarah Vine KC Dee McCullough @LabourLGB Plus riveting Q&A chaired by @tracygilbert72 MP #LWDLiverpool25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Xm...

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🌹Always a pleasure to welcome Minister of State for Health Karin Smyth to our #Lab25 conference stall🌹 #LWDLiverpool25

@heraldscotland.bsky.social report on our fringe Sarah Vine KC "warned that current legal definitions of “gender identity” are so vague that proposed hate crime & conversion practice offences would... require juries & magistrates to make “political decisions” www.heraldscotland.com/news/2550237...

More fab Scottish supporters visited our #Lab25 stall today inc: Johann Lamont former MSP & Scottish Labour Leader, Melanie Ward MP, Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy, Tracy Gilbert MP, Edinburgh North & Leith plus another Scot, David Smith MP, North Northumberland. #LWDLiverpool25

The EHRC guidance cannot change the law. Any legally constituted female service provision or sport must exclude all males incl. those who identify as women and those with GRCs. So if you want to attempt to undo the legal rights women have fought for over decades you are in the right place to do so.

Tests brought in after data showed 50-60 DSD athletes in finals, World Athletics says www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

'Non-binary is the gender identity you end up claiming if you’re a feminist who’s made the category “woman” uninhabitable for any female human with an ounce of self-respect.'

Louise Haigh 'Banning the abuse of NDAs will be truly transformational' - labourlist.org/2025/09/loui...

Attending Labour Conference in Liverpool? Don't miss the chance to hear from these four legendary women at our fringe meeting. Sunday 28 Sept 5.00 - 6.30pm Leonardo Hotel, inside conference zone (pass required) #LWDLiverpool25 #LabourConference25 #Lab25 1/4

'Welsh said: “You want genuine trans people to live the best possible life that they can. “But you don't want it to be at the expense of the rights of 50% of the population."' “The women's movement is too important for that." www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

'Peggie’s discomfort was met with the repeated assertion that Upton had a right to use the female-only changing room. This is not legally accurate ... self-identification is not a proper basis for access to single-sex facilities or services.' thecritic.co.uk/sandie-peggi...

Hannah Barnes: We need a culture change in maternity services There is something bigger going on than just staff shortages, low morale or lack of funding. @hannahsbee.bsky.social

My column for the Express on the disgusting witch burning to which NHS Fife has subjected Sandie Peggie to distract from their own unlawful conduct. Yes, people who share racist jokes in private what’s app groups of ppl they holiday with have employment rights too. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2089...

World Athletics mandates gene tests for female category eligibility

Chilling evidence published today in @Sullivan_Review Report 2 by @ProfAliceS ⬇️ "Researchers investigating vital issues have been subjected to sustained campaigns of intimidation simply for acknowledging the biological and social importance of sex” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"Hospitals & govt departments refusing to implement Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman must “get on with it” Sir Keir Starmer has said, as public bodies continue to defy the law" Is your MP/employer 'waiting for @EHRC Guidance'? Email them⬇️now www.thetimes.com/article/e243...

It's as simple as the day is long. The Supreme Court clarified: 'The words “sex”, “woman” and “man” in sections 11 and 212(1) mean (and were always intended to mean) biological sex, biological woman and biological man' pg. 83. Happy to help. supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...

As a @uklabour.bsky.social member I'm appalled with your hostile Chairing of this session. Please remember this Committee's remit is Women & Equalities. You clearly do not understand the law. The Supreme Court ruling was not just about membership of boards. It was about the meaning of sex in the EA.

Great that Sky News is taking such trafficking seriously, and many thanks, still, to Tonia Antoniazzi MP for pursuing legal change.

"Stage three is disbelief. The Supreme Court has spoken, it’s the country’s apex court &, unless..a new law is passed, its word is quite literally law. And yet police forces, NHS trusts & unions..are denying this, insisting they won’t comply" x.com/LabWomenDec/...

Clear advice and guidance from Sex Matters, as ever.

"It is dystopian that women are facing criminal investigations for seeking medical care at the most desperate moments of their lives. This has got to end. That’s why I tabled NC1 - it’s time for Parliament to support this change" 👇 www.stylist.co.uk/news/politic...

"It's disgraceful how almost every politician, & almost every other regulator, & almost every organisational leader, have left Kishwer to take the heat on this. All that "we're waiting for EHRC guidance and btw Kishwer is biased" is BS. It's an attempt to evade responsibility." x.com/HJoyceGender...

LWD statement in which we: 🌹welcome @UKLabour decision to revise policies in line with Equality Act 🌹call on public bodies to immediately follow its example 😡deplore cancellation of women's conference ♀️call for rescheduled conf to be held by July 26 labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/lwd-statemen...

TAKE ACTION: Email your MP! Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action. Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it. sex-matters.org/take-action/...

The @labouruk.bsky.social NEC 'will vote ... on measures to scrap rules that allowed ... self-identification, as Britain’s equality regulator is expected to say lavatories, changing rooms and shelters should be run on the basis of biological sex.' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

So the Labour Party has finally decided to uphold the law. But it did take a UK Supreme Court ruling. It didn't seem to think that women members like @labwomendec.bsky.social and myself were worth listening to.

Wait, but what's this: It will also 'indefinitely postpone its national women’s conference'. FFS. How cowardly can you be? @labouruk.bsky.social is going to cancel the Women's Conference because it is unlawful to let some males attend as women? Utterly pathetic.

'Labour is set to ... limit women’s officer roles and all-women shortlists to biological women while it reviews its policies in the wake of the Supreme Court judgement'. Good. About time @labouruk.bsky.social upheld the law on this. Shame it took them so long. labourlist.org/2025/05/labo...