The Museum of Edinburgh has an exhibition called Past Shelves: History of queer reading. It consists of materials from the Lavender Menace archive. Lavender Menace - which was once a gay and lesbian bookshop, is now completely captured. Although there's some lesbian info (including brochures from the Deckchairs Collective which Sally co-founded in the 80s) all the blurb talks about "LGBTQ+", denying the existence of lesbian culture and community. Here's a the text of the let

We've written to all party leaders in Holyrood about the importance of the lesbian perspective, and asked what their party will do to secure full and speedy implementation of the FWS Supreme Court ruling, and that they work to ensure lesbians are included in all decision making. This is the text of the letter to John Swinney, which was sent, with amendments about each party's position, to the other leaders. Links below Dear Mr Swinney Lesbian Rights We are writing to ask you

Our letter to Wes Streeting on puberty blockers, the data linkage study and the conversion of young lesbians into ersatz "heterosexual men".

The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls has invited submissions about violence to mothers. We're disappointed to see she made no mention of lesbian mothers. Though it comes as no real surprise, since it echoes the failure of any international treaties to recognise lesbians. If lesbians are to have our needs met, the first necessity is for the national and international community and, indeed, women's rights organisations, to stop viewing us as the same as

The UN's Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI is planning a report on violence against lesbians. But he includes heterosexual men who claim to be women in his definition of "lesbian". This nonsensical adherence to transgender ideology means that, yet again, men are being centred and women sidelined. Lesbian Persistence and Lesbian Labour wrote a response which has been submitted by a UK coalition of lesbian organisations. Our response critiques

Social Work England is carrying out an independent review of social work regulation. Much needed after the Rachel Meade debacle! Here's our submission . Interestingly, the Scottish equivalent has behaved a bit better on the question of gender-identity woo.

We have written to Jenny Gilruth, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, about the recently reissued guidance on supporting transgender pupils in schools and expressing our concerns about the impact on young lesbians.

We wrote to Citizens Advice Scotland to support their stance on the provision of single sex facilities in line with the FWS ruling.