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Photo: Jo Brew Sally spoke at the LGB Alliance conference on 18 April 2026 about the lesbian intervention - why she set it up, why it was essential to the outcome of the case, and what has happened since the Supreme Court ruling. Here's the full text. As Bev mentioned in her introduction, I have always believed women’s space and lesbian space is incredibly important.  Not so long ago, we had that space - there was a vibrant lesbian culture, with pubs, discos, bookshops and ev

Text of talk by Sally Wainwright to WDI side event at UN CSW 12/03/26 The transgenderist project has been, above all, a war on language. The egregious harms done by feeding unnecessary drugs to children, or removing healthy body parts, and the insult to women’s dignity privacy and safety, are only possible if you’ve already bought into the linguistic gymnastics that deny basic truths. Before any of those things can take place, there has to be some level of acceptance that men

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.

Sally gave a talk at the Women's Declaration International conference on 26 July about the origins of the lesbian intervention and why it...

Someone can be simultaneously man and woman according to UK Gov Schrödinger’s cat was famously both dead and alive. Since 2004, we have...

JK Rowling - still as Harry Potter's beloved mother - at the London premiere of the 6th part of the saga 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood...

Police Scotland were consulting organisations on their new approach to collecting and recording data on sex and gender identity. (We...

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

On Tuesday 13 May, the National published a comment piece by Dylan Hamilton whinging about the Scottish Parliament having provided...

The current plan will, inexplicably, allow the falsification of sex in this new system. Once that false record has been created, it will be almost impossible to prove someone’s actual sex, for example to prevent a man from gaining access to lesbian associations or women-only services.

Sally gave a talk to WDI on the court ruling and its implications for lesbians and other women. Watch it here .

Talk about Lesbian Persistence , and the WDI book, Women's Right, Gender Wrongs: the global impact of gender-identity ideology. Watch here

Clarity is not division. It’s the duty of elected parliamentarians, and especially of those in government, to uphold the rule of law, not...

Today Arbroath. Tomorrow the world! To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week members from Dundee, Angus and Aberdeen...

The First Berns Supper We celebrated the life and work of an iconic and important lesbian, Magdalen Berns on Burns night in Scotland. We...

For Women Scotland ruling and the impact on lesbians