We are delighted that following our discussions with Edinburgh Council, the Museum of Edinburgh will now display a notice in the Past Shelves exhibition recognising that the terms “LGBTQ+” and “queer” used in this exhibition are contemporary terms, and that the use of them has been, and continues to be, contested - especially by some lesbians and gay men... [who] believe that applying these terms retrospectively obscures important distinctions between communities and misrepre

On 18 August Edinburgh Council's Policy and Sustainability Committee will consider a report on the EHRC Updated Code of Practice. It should be about how the council has set about complying with the CoP and implementing the FWS judgment, ensuring that single sex spaces and services are properly single sex, and are available as required. Instead, the Report largely focuses on how "trans" people will be disadvantaged and the steps the Council is taking to make sure they are prov

The Museum of Edinburgh has an exhibition called Past Shelves: Histories of queer reading. It consists of materials from the Lavender Menace archive. Lavender Menace - which was once a gay and lesbian bookshop, but is now completely captured by gender-identity ideology. 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 commun

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

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