RESPONDENT COMMENT: “This ideology is forcing women out of professional spheres. It is denying us our rights to a liveable income, our rights to recognition for our hard works, our rights to power in the system which our foremothers so perilously fought for. We are being shoved back into the kitchen, to deference and servitude to men.”

Question 46: If you are in paid or voluntary employment, has gender identity politics had an impact on your professional life?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “My like of work has been completely destroyed by this ideology. (Mental health)”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I work in the arts, in different countries. The capture of this realm by identity ideology is such that I feel my days in the arts are numbered. There is already an active campaign against me in motion, instigated by a colleague.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I’m a nurse and this has impacted my working life greatly, leading me to set up a space for others like me to explore our views as it’s not professionally safe for us.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I lost my job because I would not accept working in a culture where colleagues openly talked about “terfs” in hateful ways, and where 100% acceptance of extreme trans ideology became the norm, and any refusal led to punishment.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I work in what should be a female dominated profession. It is, on the lower rungs. We are not respected, as women. I know that I will lose my job if I say the ‘wrong’ thing. I hate it. My workplace has been transformed from a place of pride to a place of fear.” 

Question 47: Do you feel able to talk about your views on gender identity politics at work?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I worked as a teacher at a private school for children with special needs. Several times, I raised safeguarding concerns about the mixed-sex toilets. I raised anonymous concerns and when those were not listened to, I complained to Ofsted. I also raised anonymous concerns with the school and with Ofsted about the teaching of gender ideology as fact. The school headteacher worked out that it was me who raised concerns and pushed me out. I left the job. As far as I know the situation has never been dealt with. I am very angry that children are being taught lies and that safeguarding is being ignored.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “This is a serious threat to women through the loss of our livelihoods and many women can’t afford to speak up, especially economically disadvantaged women, women with children/other dependants etc. It shows the structural power that men have over women as all industry is dominated by men at the top tier. Criticisms of capitalism and class based structural oppression are also needed to understand how this issue affects the most disadvantaged women.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I’ve been formally disciplined at work for telling an apprentice colleague that his college friend (who started IDing as a woman during lockdown) can’t change sex. NHS. I was so upset at how it was handled I resigned. I’d have a good case for constructive dismissal but I don’t have the fight in me.”

Question 48: Are you concerned about the possibility of being sacked from a job or threatened with being sacked?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I have made fake profiles because I’m scared that if I was seen to reject the notions that people are born with sexed souls, men are lesbians and teens are being castrated for their own good, I might be fired like the others.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I lost my job as a result of my gender critical views. I see other women threatened and bullied. I personally know dozens of prominent women in my own profession who share my beliefs but none of them dare speak out.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I teach biology so I expect this will come up soon. Considering how little support my university and union give to other hot button topics in biology, I’m constantly worried that I will lose my job and the ability to support my family for simply teaching my factual curriculum.”

Question 49: Are you concerned about women being de-platformed from speaking events?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I work at a university and gender-critical people are afraid to express their views. In the country I live in, we are compelled to correspond in “affirming” ways and some lecturers have started to state their pronouns, despite the fact that they are all “cisgender” anyway. Teachers are evaluated by students depending on how consistently they use “gender-inclusive language”. A woman has already been deplatformed and student activists have protested against inviting a gender-critical feminist to our university two years ago.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I feel distraught witnessing professional women being [de]platformed, silenced and erased. I also feel heartened and encouraged by some strong feminists in the UK that are fiercely resisting gender doctrine. I just wish Australia would wake up and start questioning gender and trans ideology instead of introducing ‘anti conversion’ bills by stealth which are disguising strong legalisation of self ID, gender reassignment surgery, pronoun usage, and LGBTIQ+ inclusion, with the threat of jail time and high fines if you publicly resist to assimilate. Loss of career is a crime in my opinion.” 

Question 50: Are you concerned about funding being denied for not including men in the category of woman?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “All of those situations have affected both my daughter and myself. We cannot speak up; we cannot say that men cannot be included; we have to be so careful when we apply for funding to be ‘inclusive’ otherwise the funding will not be forthcoming. Political parties are a cesspit of antiwomen rhetoric and the sad thing is, it’s mostly by women who are trans allies – so we have sold our own sex down the drain. We will regret this bitterly in years to come; too late when women no longer exist in public roles. See that admiral in the Biden administration.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “This has had a very damaging impact on the academic field of women’s studies and feminism. If you are labelled a “TERF” in a university – where we have to apply for funding externally to carry out our research – people will avoid your work, not cite or work with you. All of this is very damaging to an academic’s career opportunities and progression. Women are being held back by this.”

Question 51: Are you concerned about women administering personal care to male clients?

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Many women made the point that female carers had been providing personal care for men, as nurses bathing men and such, for a long time and said the wording of this question is not specific enough. The survey made the assumption that respondents understood this to refer to situations where women who provided care thought they would be caring for a woman, perhaps a disabled woman in her home, only to discover that the “woman” in question was a man who identified as a woman or that a man was wanting intimate grooming care. It was observed that a distinction should have been made between personal care that is related to health or disability and other types of services, such as grooming care. 

An example of the latter is an occasion when women providing intimate waxing services to women have been legally challenged for not offering this service to a man who identifies as women. A number of women stated they were aware of such cases but, overall, this survey question was not specific enough. The researchers acknowledge that this question could cover a wide range of situations, some of which would be acceptable to women and others which would not. Therefore, it is concluded that this question is insufficient in its specificity.

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Not sure what you are specifically referring to regarding women providing ‘personal care’ to men. That’s a broad category but I’m aware of the human rights case where a TIM wanted his genital area waxed by racialized women. Also, I’m lucky that as far as my job goes, I only work with the owner of the business and she shares my views.”

Question 52: Are you concerned about having to affirm other people’s “gender identity” at work?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Being compelled to put pronouns in my profile and email address, announce at meetings etc., forces me to lie or demonstrate submission. As a female human AKA a woman, being forced to submit resonates with actual sexual trauma every time.”

Question 53: Are you concerned about women having academic work refused or discredited?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I am an academic and researcher. I am afraid to publish or to speak critically about gender ideology based on science and evidence. I am afraid I will lose my very hard-earned job. I am afraid that I will soon be forced to share female-only sex spaces with males at work.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I feel totally silenced at work. I cannot understand how this ideology has become so powerful and unquestioned, in a critical thinking university department. I am concerned that gender ideology is changing the whole face of universities, from what research gets funded, to who is listened to, to who gets to use the women’s changing rooms.” 

Question 54: Are you concerned about women losing positions reserved for women to men who claim to be women?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “In my professional life, opportunities for women have very slowly increased, much of it through specific policies and explicit legislation aimed at increasing female inclusion. It makes a mockery of decades of feminist activism to shift the needle on the likes of greater political representation or expanded opportunities in public life to now include self-identified women in those hard-fought-for spaces. Academia, where women have at least had a visible presence, is disgracing itself with its silencing and chilling effect on diverse opinions.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “They’re just replacing women with men on the guise of inclusivity. I don’t understand, I feel like eventually we’re gonna be reduced just to the people that carry children. Every other area will be dominated by males. I’m concerned with opportunities, as people opting in and out of their gender will fuck up real statistics. Scholarships for women will be given to men, women’s seats on government will be given to men. It will look progressive on paper to have all these women there, but the reality is they’re all men. Men in dresses could close the gender pay gap.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I work in IT and saw tiny gradual steps over the years to get more women into technical positions in IT. But in the last decade much of that has been undermined by the rush to claim that men in IT who “transition” are the women who were being recruited into IT. Even worse, many of those “transitioned” men are some of the worst sexual harassers in the IT world, but completely get away with it for political reasons that HR foists on everyone. It’s not just a disaster for the numbers of women in IT, it’s a nightmare for those of us who can’t speak out about the sexual harassment because it’s coming from the most protected class of people in the workplace.”

Question 55: Are you concerned about workplaces/universities/institutions (including NGOs, global organisations, political parties, cultural organisations etc.) adopting gender identity ideology?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Transgender ideology is pernicious in that it denies anyone, and women in particular, the right to criticise it. It achieves this either by threats or defamation or pushing them out of jobs or if they have their own business by discouraging anyone else from using those businesses and demonising those who do. Other so far unaffected women (myself included) are silenced out of fear when they see what is happening to other women. Look at how the nazis outcast the Jews and you will instantly see parallels. In theory our rights to free speech should be protected in law, but laws mean nothing when transgender lobbyists have very successfully captured so many areas of public life: the government, political parties, education, academia, the legal system, the prison system, HR policies of private companies and public institutions or organisations, charities, lgbt organisations, to name just a few.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I work in the arts. It’s fucked. The arts Council funding pages even ask what age do you identify as. Everyone I work with has pronouns and blue hair. It’s really challenging.”

Question 56: Would you like to say more about women and professional spaces?

980 women commented on the questions on women in the workplace. 

Thematic coding revealed the main concerns of women regarding GI in the workplace were:

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Women’s Comments

“Any equality system based on gender rather than sex will benefit men and penalise women. Women need sex-based provisions, otherwise the man in a dress who will never get pregnant will always fill the “woman” quota.”

“I work with vulnerable people who are being pushed along the trans path. Young adults with learning disabilities and autism being told they might be born in the wrong body. And WOMEN in care who may be forced to accept intimate care from men who claim to be women. My manager can’t wait for our first trans support worker and says any woman who objects will be treated as a racist would. It’s almost like she wants to experience their sheer horror of being forced to accept a man touching their genitalia.”

“I left a job in part because I knew I would end up in some kind of disciplinary process or employment tribunal due to my not being willing to kowtow to gender identity ideology / transgenderism. I think the same thing is a distinct possibility in my current job. My employer insists on promoting the ideology – if you don’t stay silent or comply, there are immediately punitive measures, e.g. removing your comments from the staff intranet, HR instructing your manager to come and talk to you, etc.”

“My ex-employer has now left Stonewall so hopefully will get better but it was a very uncomfortable place for a female engineer.”

“I have been able to raise issues around gender identity at work very cautiously with a few colleagues; I have not done so with anyone senior to me and would be extremely cautious about doing so. However I would if necessary, as the client group I work with are vulnerable adults and I would feel morally and professionally obliged to raise the safeguarding issues if it arose.”

“While I don’t have a problem to use the preferred name and pronouns of a transgender person, I do feel uncomfortable with the idea that I will be required to state my pronouns at work. I also feel uncomfortable about biological men using women’s toilets at work. This has prevented me from applying for jobs where the advertisements clearly state the adoption of gender identity. I decided to join the Free Speech Union (NZ) to help protect me should I be a s ked to ‘choose pronouns’ at work.”

“The pronoun policy, instead of being inclusive, is forcing everyone to make a private aspect of their lives public. I have suffered being ostracised and denied work in so called feminist NGOs because of my views but I’m much more upset about those women with more exposure and power than myself who have lost jobs and platforms. I’m also concerned about the teen girls who’ll arrive to universities that dictate this new normal that denies science.”

“Women have had to put in the hard yards for many decades to get to where we are now. The ultimate irony in all of this is, that just at the point where medicine is finally acknowledging that women are not deficient men and their bodies work differently, along comes a loud crowd shouting that sex isn’t real and feelings are more important than genitalia. And the worst offenders are often straight women in heterosexual relationships who just want to “be kind” to others, not realising that this is not a mutual aim.”

“I work at a radical feminist magazine so I can not only talk about my views but they’re shared by my co-workers and boss. The pressuring, and censoring and compelling and shaming of women to be quiet about this is widespread and terrible though. Women shouldn’t have to be silent as our rights are taken away.”

“Women have [worked] so hard to gain recognition etc., in academia and professions. They are now at risk of being eliminated by men wearing frocks and lippy. It’s disgusting.”

“Women have few spaces where they were represented as professionals in the public eye, now we have less.”

“I’ve been fortunate not to have been impacted much in my professional life, but I worry that could change. My work, thankfully, doesn’t seem interested in promoting gender ideology. But I feel like that’s becoming a rarer thing, so it’s part of the reason I won’t be looking for employment elsewhere in the foreseeable future. There are some companies in my industry that I know are extremely pro-trans, and there’s no point even applying to those. From this perspective, it’s career limiting to be GC. I’m fortunate to have a good job, but I can easily see GC women feeling trapped in crummy jobs because they don’t think they’d be able to get a job elsewhere. And as I said previously, being GC has completely nullified any possibility that I will pursue a teaching career, despite having had an interest in it. I’m also fortunate, in a way, not to have children. If I had kids to provide for, I may never have come out as GC at all for fear of not being able to provide for them. In general, I also think it’s terrifying the way GC women and ideas are silenced in universities. Universities are supposed to be about the pursuit of truth. Yet with gender ideology, truth – and the pursuit of it – goes out the window. Gender ideology is dominating universities, not because it’s the best idea, but because all other ideas are being aggressively suppressed.”

“When I was at university, I was a part of my department’s Athena Swan programme, which, I thought, aimed to encourage and support women in academia. I joined the team eager to make a difference, fully aware of how many hurdles female academics face. (To give an example of such a hurdle, I will always remember a very honest, sobering talk from one of my brilliant women professors, who warned me that academia is a much harder road for the women in it, due to the sexism and ‘Old Boy’ culture.) I became increasingly disillusioned with the Athena Swan programme, because it became quickly apparent that supporting women in academia was of lesser concern than getting more trans identifying people into it. We spent more time talking about how lecturers should work hard to memorise students’ pronouns than we did about how frustrating it can be to be a female student in a class of males who refuse to take her seriously because of her sex. Or male lecturers getting promotions over their female colleagues even when they’re not as qualified. Or the harshness of maternity leave policy. Or the fact that many women students feel unsafe on campus because of rampant sexist abuse and harassment. Or the fact that female lecturers often end up working more hours than their male counterparts because it is automatically assumed that it is a woman’s job to perform pastoral duties and minister to students’ needs. No, pronoun policy was the most important thing.”

“If women in these spaces are cancelled, women role models will be greatly lacking for girls and younger women.”

“I find it especially worrisome that this has captured science and research publications.” 

“In my university we have teaching staff forcing students to put their pronouns in their bios, or else they will be referred to as they them.”

“Administrations and unions MUST speak up for freedom of thought and expression for women who hold gender critical views and express them reasonably.”

“It is predominantly women pushing back against this. Yet another drain on our time. I’m in an industry where it’s estimated women have to work 2.5 times more than men for same recognition. Fighting this harms women’s careers in taking up our time, as well as the risk of being cancelled, sacked etc.”

“When a feeling is more important than material reality, we have problems. Because the GRA created legal fiction- here we are where men who think they are women demand we say they are- the GRA should be repealed in my opinion. Sex matters. The rest is mere performance.”

“Your questions say everything in what I believe. I hope my young grandchildren never aspire to go to university whilst the students are forcing their gender ideology beliefs onto other students. The oldest is 6 so hopefully this will all be over when they are older.”

“The number one problem is how academic, arts and cultural institutions have drunk the kool-aid on this. That continues the infection.”

“I censor myself a lot at work. I dare to speak after Maya Forstater’s case and other GC at my working place spoke up. That’s why I don’t fear that much being fired, but I did before I heard others speak up.”

“Women have worked hard to create a place in their professional spaces. If gender identity ideology captures women’s professional spaces not only will it be an enormous loss for women but it paves the way for utter destruction and erasure of women’s hard earned rights.”

“I have always held educated people, places of learning & true intellectuals in esteem. Never, ever did I think I would be glad for my poor education (left school at 15) or the fact that I’m a cleaner. No one cancels the cleaner, yes I have talked about what’s happening to my clients (many are full genderwooers) but still, no one cancels the cleaner. What has happened/happening to academics & other professional women is terrifying. Cleaning is hard work, the money’s shite, but the ability to speak freely without fear is priceless!”

“I am retired – need to have ‘does not apply’ option on more of the questions.”

“We can’t critique workplace culture and academia with a socialist feminist analysis of capitalism. Unfeminized women have always struggled to find safe, secure employment. Lesbians have always been excluded from traditionally feminized work and workplaces where heterosexist women dominate like early childhood education. The networks and nepotism available to heterosexual people are not available to gay and lesbian people. It is unsurprising that many gay and lesbian workers seek to downplay their sexuality by playing into gender identity/trans narratives. When straight people treat gay and lesbian people like sexual deviants who don’t belong in the workplace, we will rebrand as differently gendered to survive.” 

“This is a real issue in my work. Have broken cover a little – I focus on sex being real and immutable, and a necessary category for data purposes. Have not had a favourable reaction.” 

“I cannot believe this is happening, and yet there it is right in front of me. Women didn’t even achieve equality, and now we’re forced to give up the little we did gain. And for such a ridiculous idea as man=woman.”

“As mentioned before, I work in a tech company that has not gone down the gender rabbit hole quite as far, which is why I’m only moderately concerned about job safety. But I still avoid being open about my views at work at all. Thankfully, so far, I did not have to deal with any colleagues with a “gender identity” that I would have to recognize, so I’m lucky in that regard. I do have a colleague who mentioned that his daughter now wants to be a boy and be called by a boys’ name, but other than that the topic hasn’t really touched me directly at work yet. What I’m concerned about though is that in case I would ever want to leave my employer for other reasons, if I would find another position in this particular industry where I can steer clear that easily from gender nonsense. It seems that most tech companies are already fully captured and that’s very concerning to me.”

“I’m a freelance writer so to me there’s no point in being that if I can’t have freedom of expression. I worry about all of the above, but have to attempt not to let it affect me and my writing.”

“As a retired nurse, I feel that the standards I have worked to develop, uphold and promote all my working life, in relation to safeguarding women, is being undermined and undone, before my eyes.”

“Q51 – as long as you KNOW they are a man and not being compelled to go along with a kink! Personal care is just that, personal – it’s got to be comfortable for client and carer.”

“This is where I self-censor the most – in work. I work as a consultant and am concerned I would not be given work if I was open about my gender critical views.”

“Women need to walk a tightrope not to fall foul of the orthodoxy that says that men can be women.” 

“Professional bodies that claim to support children with autism will be responsible for the sterilization of a cohort of these children in years to come.”

“I am out as gender critical to some people in my organisation but it is unspoken but accepted that I would not make my views known to others that we collaborate with and I would not be openly gender critical under my own name on social media, etc. I greatly fear being doxxed. In some ways it’s a relief to be able to speak to colleagues but in other ways I would rather work somewhere it wasn’t an issue.” 

“I am retired but would find it very difficult to work in the caring professions now due to my advocacy for women and girl’s rights. I have also felt concerned that although retired I could still be reported to my professional body for comments made on social media.”

“Being retired, much of this does not apply to me. I am, however, very concerned on behalf of working women today. Q51 – I am more concerned about men administering personal care to women, who apparently do not seem to have a choice if the carer is a m-to-f transitioner. I have not yet had to affirm pronouns, but know that I would find it impossible to refer to one person as ‘they/them’, grammatically a singular pronoun. How are laws and legal language, both dependent on strict accuracy of meaning, going to accommodate what the trans lobby want to introduce? Something that implies that the intention is to sow chaos into people’s thinking. The idea that you can be whatever you want to be is seductive and children and young people are being drawn into the idea of becoming a member of the opposite sex as if it were a game. Cults and addictions start in a similar way. Q 54 Women’s sex-based rights have been hard-won over years. One of the most recent was the introduction of women-only lists for certain positions historically dominated by men. Now that m-to-f people can put themselves forward and be voted onto these positions, is denying women their right to be represented. It has happened in some councils, I believe and, without effective challenge, it is only a matter of time before it becomes the norm by default, including Parliament.”

“My employer is an NHS Scotland board who has happily adopted the Pride Pledge Pin, which shuts a fair few of us up.” 

“I am a midwife and while the majority of my colleagues hold GC views we are still afraid to speak up publicly but I am supported within my peer group.”

“Women are being replaced by men. In many organisations these men are taking jobs and other positions from women.”

“My experience of women discussing this issue in professional spaces is they are targeted & marginalised where an org has been Stonewalled.”

“I am not afraid of being sacked as I am self employed and nearing retirement. However, I was a nurse for 40 years in the NHS and I am sad and cross to see how captured the NHS is now by Stonewall. It is so regressive that women are being put back in their places while men (trans women) are taking positions that should be for women only.”

“Universities have abandoned critical thinking and a broad based education – they are the root of instilling these ideas into our culture. Queen’s University – my alma mater has its diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) layer of bureaucrats and they coerce their views across the University – into every place. It is very troubling.”

“We’ve worked hard to get this far and I feel like we are getting pushed back down again, by men.”

“I have brought up gender ideology to my female boss and other female leaders. I have simply mentioned a few of my concerns, which they confirmed are valid. I hope they have gone on to do research on their own.” 

“As a business owner I am worried that my public posts about this issue might cost us business. My daughter who sometimes works for us was challenged at work about a letter of mine that was published in a newspaper. No overt threat was made but she was made to feel that she wouldn’t be able to express a gender critical view point, even though she does not fully share my views.”

“Gender ideology is a fabrication and an opinion. That does not mean that men who want to identify as women are not able to. I respect the right for people to be whoever or whatever they want to be. I object and reject this desire being politicised and idealised and this desire not to override women’s and lesbian rights.” 

“This has already leaked into my professional life and friends’ lives where men were put in places they shouldn’t be.”

“I feel that my employer will soon demand I go along with pronouns even though I believe sex is real and gender is invented.”

“I am not smart enough to be afraid of losing my job but am aware of the fear in all women. I have tenured professor friends who could speak up and choose not to. Shame on them.”

“This is a problem for most of the women I know!”

“I’m a clinician within NHS, always never been an idea to speak to pts re politics etc., and I would always be polite to a patient my first job is to connect with them to aid their treatment. However as things progress and I become more emboldened I see it as harder to affirm gender identity of others patients and staff. Therefore the person who truly suffers is myself because I feel I’m not being true to myself when I’m forced to do the correct societal thing. I would be subject to complaints from colleagues and patients alike.”

“I’ve already had to stop work and move due to it. This absolute nonsense will be effecting and insulting women at every level, everywhere already in favour of men as it always does.”

“I work in a company regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority which is applying Stonewall policy to issues such as gender diversity on company boards – allowing for self identity which is not UK law.”

“Emilia Decaudin’s skin tight dress showing they/their male genitalia when accepting an award for a (biological) woman.”

“This ideology conflicts with the collection of data for things like the gender pay gap and more.”

“”Women administering personal care.” Nurses have always had to do that, so in that context it has not changed. But men expecting their balls waxed by women is way beyond acceptable.”

“The ‘no debate’ stance of trans activists is a new form of authoritarian silencing of women.” 

“Now retired but still an academic in my writing. Expertise, inclusive practices. I see the unis being completely in thrall to gender ideologues.”

“I own my own business so I’m not going to get sacked however I am extremely reserved with my opinions especially on social media.”

“Women fought long and hard to be accepted into professional spaces and still face much greater barriers than men. Seeing protections eroded for the sake of men with a dysphoria which is treated very differently to other dysphorias is shameful”.

“I’m retired but am active professionally as an opinion leader, communicator in health care. I’m a Registered Nurse and a former academic (Professor Emeritus). I’m appalled at what is happening in universities (vis Kathleen Stock etc.) and also at the affiliation of health care organisations and their regulators, with Stonewall.”

“I am pasting an excerpt from my resignation letter to the board of ***…*** (redacted to protect anonymity)l, an organisation I volunteered with for three years before finding myself in an impossible situation:    For some time I have been aware that **** has drifted away from its mission and core founding philosophy of mothering through breastfeeding. … [an international NGO related to breastfeeding advocacy], an organisation I volunteered with for three years before finding myself in an impossible situation: For some time I have been aware that [NGO] has drifted away from its mission and core founding philosophy of mothering through breastfeeding. The organisation I represent no longer represents me. [NGO] has ceased to prioritise and centre mothers, forsaking them in favour of performative faux social justice and achieving political work for other causes – even when those causes clash with the rights of mothers and babies. As a [volunteer], I have brought bullying and unethical behaviour of fellow volunteers to the attention of leadership on multiple occasions. Rather than acting on my concerns, the Board has turned a blind eye and thereby has become complicit in continued factionalism and bullying which is poisoning our organisation. The Board has demonstrated failure in governance and oversight, and abrogated their duty of care to me as a volunteer and to the mothers I support. I am utterly heartbroken to have been put in a situation where I can no longer ethically participate in the divergence of our organisation from its mandate. Specifically, the ongoing stress and trauma of being forced alongside [volunteers] worldwide to use a gendered definition of ‘mother’, embrace novel lactation practices inimical to the mother baby bond, and displace mothers in favour of fathers and families – compounded by the Board’s lack of accountability in the social media space – has created a situation in which I cannot fully participate as a [volunteer] nationally and internationally. Nor will I be complicit by continuing to attempt to participate, particularly as my efforts to do so have resulted in horrifying levels of targeted vilification, harassment and bullying. I have been placed in an untenable position. I cannot continue being subjected to harm or watching an organisation I love abandon its core values.”

“I am grateful to be retired, so I’m not up against this ideology in the workplace. However, I will always show solidarity for women suffering discrimination for GC views in work, and will campaign to end the dominance of transgender ideology in the workplace.”

“I feel a huge onus on me, as an unemployed person, to speak up for all those who could risk losing their job. Institutional capture is like the whole world being swallowed up by a cult; never come across anything like this before, so it’s very stressful even for an “outsider” like me. This pushes us all out of public life, one way or another. I ticked 52 to show I would refuse to comply with this if I was in work – even if I was the only one. I sympathise with the pressure employees are under. It’s a totalitarian regime that forces people to endure, and even endorse, sexual harassment at work.”

“I am lucky in that I am self-employed, working from home, so I only really encounter gender identity ideology online. I am greatly concerned about its effect on our institutions, however, particularly the ‘Stonewall effect’. It’s a nightmare – constantly having concern or fear over whether you say the ‘right’ thing or metaphorically tick the right politically correct boxes. It’s exhausting and humiliating to feel that women are yet again having to fight for their rights but this time against autogynephiliac misogynists.”

“I work in the arts – a dangerous place to be GC. I am careful about how I word any issues I want to raise, but if I keenly feel an injustice I do speak up when I can. That said, there are many many instances where I stay quiet.”

“I work in a tertiary institution which is just starting to be affected by the trans agenda and I’m concerned it will increase. I intend to speak out against any moves to deny reality and/or to allow men into women’s spaces or apply for women’s roles. I will definitely not be using pronouns, if the institution tells staff to use them.”

“As we have seen with prominent academics and others, women are not safe in work if they are openly questioning of this ideology. The inclusion of males in women’s shortlists, prizes and positions reduces women’s chances of the very opportunities set up for them.”

“Where are all the trans men taking over high powered men’s roles? Oh, nowhere. It’s almost like everyone knows they are still women.”

“Women have always been disadvantaged in the workplace. We’ve had to fight for the rights we have won. Now those rights are being dismantled.” 

“Re question 51, I am a nurse. In healthcare female nurses tend to the needs of male patients all the time.”

“I am retired, but answered this section as someone who sits on various elected bodies. Regarding personal care, depends on situation e.g. ok nursing, personal care.”

“As a teacher of the youngest children I worry about the introduction of gender ideology before children are able to comprehend it and losing my job if I do not comply with pshe curriculum.”

“Women should be the only sex with access to professional spaces meant to be for women, and they should have access to all other spaces, in the same manner as men, while being protected from having to compete with males who regard themselves as women.”

“I belong to a group called women in trades. It’s been infiltrated by Trans identified males.“

“I was awarded compensation from my old uni through the OUI for bullying and harassment from other students which the university failed to address in my many complaints. The same students were members of the LGBTQ+ Society but never posted about gay rights, only trans. They fundraised for mermaids and Stonewall, but never gay charities. An old elected member of the SU tried to berate me over messenger for my GC views and told me to ‘stop throwing your miscarriage in my face’. She is, and was at the time of the message, a school teacher.” 

“It is bizarre. The world has turned on its head and so few are seeing the madness for what it is. This ousting women from academia etc., is just the new misogyny and men are laughing all the way back to the patriarchy.”

“Losing freelance work is my issue – almost impossible to prove, but old sources have dried up.”

““This is clearly a global agenda and just as with the so called “covid”, people are being pressured, threatened and paid off to advance this patriarchal agenda. Very scary times when having a point of view that doesn’t please Bill Gates or someone at the WEF right down to your local police station, will get you in big trouble. It’s unconscionable and unacceptable. Men cannot be women – EVER! (she screamed at the top of her lungs!)”

“It is making me afraid to go back and get my Masters degree in Anthropology/Archaeology.. I’m seeing too many academic women being blacklisted for speaking out about this ideology /theology creeping into the sciences”.

“I have witnessed ‘filibustering’ when there have been attempts to openly discuss gender ideology.”

“I have been campaigning for sex equality (used to call it gender equality but no more!) and quotas. Now this is all meaningless if men can be women. Gender neutral awards really annoy me as females will lose opportunities again. But of course I worry most for women who have to deal with males claiming to be women at their place of work, in rape shelters, in hospitals, in prisons, in lingerie stores.” 

“Women have the absolute right to refuse to tend to any person they don’t want to. Esp professional arena Eg prison guards having to strip-search delusional porn addled men.”

“It doesn’t affect me now but I know when I was working I would have gone along with this gender rubbish rather than lose my job and my house.”

“Women have in less than 100 years managed to be a distinct presence in public life such as employment, visible in society etc. Their achievements are great – we could do so much more if we weren’t constantly on guard. Now we are facing the worst kind of womanhating threat in history. Much of history’s “oppression” of women has evolved from physical and natural social roles (child rearing etc.) that we cannot run away from and in historical times where anarchy was a tiny step away, protection of females was paramount. Modern society does not need that kind of protection now (or not in the Western world/Democracies). However, Women STILL need other kinds of protection from Men. Some men have decided that the achievements of women are too much and seek to genuinely lock women away into a box by removing their ability to name themselves as a distinct group of humans – 51% of the human population in many western countries. Deny us our right to equal access to employment, public social interests, law, education, politics etc., and women are locked away. See Afghanistan in real time. There is a religion doing it. Here it’s a pseudo religion. The medium doesn’t matter. The aim is the same – remove Women from all public life, keep them locked away, unable to meet up with each other, isolate and separate. Do not allow them to educate themselves, have recourse to law, protection etc., and you do not have a group of people who can advocate for themselves – they have to rely on the males. Slavery works on the same principle but uses race or skin colour as the reason. Isolate, separate, un-name them. Remove “sex” and protected characteristic of sex in employment laws such as Equality Act – and women cannot then make claims of sexual harassment or ill treatment based on their sex and the issues that come from being that sex. (note: neither can men, but if women disappear from businesses/employment, then that doesn’t matter.) Gender identity in any place is irrelevant. Any more than any other “hobby” or “interest” is relevant except with like minded individuals.  No one is going to be interested in how I perceive myself in any way, except now if I profess a “gender identity”. But I am not allowed to say I DON’T have one. That is compelled thought.”

“I am a freelancer. I have started turning certain jobs down because I don’t agree with their company policies. Unfortunately one of them was for a woman’s domestic abuse charity that now uses gender in place of sex in their literature.”

“Although I have said that I am comfortable speaking about concerns about gender identity at work this is only to a select few people whom I trust.” 

“I fear that if my gender critical views were ever outed in my professional circle, I’d lose all work as well as friends. Even if the businesses I work with don’t support gender ideology, they would still cut ties with me. I’ve seen this happen to other women in the same field who had their private conversations outed online.”

“My contempt for the cowardly people in power who go along with this garbage is beyond measure.”

“It seems men do not face the same level of backlash. Women are being edged out of hiring pool by males in women’s clothes.”

“The facilitator of a sexual violence prevention committee at a university (I am a member representing a local community advocacy program) called my boss/our CEO to file a complaint against me re-sharing “personal pronouns” as part of meeting introductions. At my first meeting, I told the group, “My name is S, I am the Educ Dept head at ***. I prefer to not share my pronouns.” I talked with my boss for over an hour about the use of pronouns at work and in professional setting. He reminded me that our agency also strongly encourages including pronouns in our email signatures, which I do not include. And that several staff members complained to him about it. I explained to my boss that as a member of the sex class women “the most oppressed/abused/discriminated/violated group of persons on the planet” my sex, sexuality, and sexual orientation are no one’s business. That compelling or coercing staff to include pronouns is a form of harassment. And that as a radical feminist with roots in the battered women’s/rape crisis movement, I will continue to name MENS violence against WOMEN as the number one issue impacting Women’s lives.”

“Being an academic professional I have to tip-toe around this issue. It’s impossible to speak openly although my female colleagues are aware of my views. As a team we all feel similar but none of us dare to raise our heads above the parapet!” 

“Women are being attacked by misogynists who wield gender identity ideology as a tool. Women are losing out on jobs and the ability to function in public. It is a men’s rights movement to remove and silence women.”

“I do not feel that I should need to conform with or accept anyone else’s ideology in any walk of life including my place of work. No one should be made to do this. Women have fought hard enough to be accepted as equals in the workplace and still are.”

“For women, workplace has been hostile as is, gender identity politics just added another layer of hostility. Anybody checking out diversity quota can be, and probably will be, formed of all male board.”

“Women are disappearing again. This is in danger of setting back the cause of women’s rights by a century.”

“Our spaces, our awards, our positions and our language are being appropriated. It is baffling to me that people can happily stand by as all that Feminists fought so hard for is undone.”

“I work in HE and I do a lot of networking and organising of feminist events so this directly impacts on me, my colleagues and students. It is an incredibly serious issue and my sense of job security has plummeted. But I hope I still have sufficient courage to carry on (cautiously) because this is so important.”

“My own professional organisation denies biology by claiming trans women are women. It is a ludicrous denial of biology.”

“Women have always been overlooked or had their work plagiarised by men in academia and in the professional world. At least now they don’t have to hide it.”

“I work in a senior healthcare role, and I worry greatly about how gi is seeping into my workplace. Mixed sex wards and toilets, pronoun tyranny, attempts to change language more widely… despite my seniority I dare not speak up too openly, although I did manage to resist (with evidence) an attempt to deepen the impact of gi in our workplace.”

“I think trans is an ideology and while an individual is free to believe any garbage they like it is completely unacceptable to expect/oblige others to believe the same crap. E.g. a jehovah’s witness can decline a blood transfusion for themself but to demand we all start calling the blood bank satan’s semen centre is crossing the line.”

“Sex needs to matter in professional spaces to avoid regressing the strides made since the 1970s.”

“I gave up work to fight this. I was in a relatively senior role in the University sector. I have had no income for 5 years and lived on my severance. Ironically I think I was already unemployable because of my trade union activism but, undoubtedly, my GC activism would have been difficult to own if I had remained in work. So my concern is about the women who remain in the sector. They can’t do anything to me anymore.”

“We are retired but are against women in workplaces having to defer to men pretending to be women.”

“Was effectively pushed out of a job at least partly due to my views on gender identity.”

“Your question above about personal care confused me. I would be a great deal concerned if it was a male giving personal care to a female.”

“Didn’t quite understand No 51. I’ve been in Aged Care and it is usual for women to undertake personal care of men. Personally, I didn’t.”

“An anti-woman belief system is being institutionalised as fact. I’m fortunate to be on a disability pension so have not been as affected but I see women being punished for speaking up about their own erasure from law and public policy. It is a terrifying form of left wing authoritarianism.”

“There has obviously been a long time move to institutionally capture political, social, legal, NGOs to introduce queer theory and the trans agenda so that it does not have to face public scrutiny. Fait accompli.”

“I deeply deplore the surrender of women’s hard-fought-for leadership positions to males.”

“I work for the NHS as a counsellor. I’ve not been able to be completely open about my views. I have not hidden them but they have not come up in topic. If I am required to do certain things such as pronouns on my email I will refuse. When that occurs I may run into trouble.”

“Women are being bullied out of their jobs because they are saying men are men and women are women and it has always been like that.”

“The vilification of women such as JK Rowling, Kathleen Stock and many other successful women shows the rest of us mere mortals that ‘even the strongest among you cannot overcome our power’. We were making some headway in professional sphere now suddenly there is not a woman more qualified than Mr Rape Crisis, or Mr Sportswoman of the year or Mr best female, and you can’t even go to the ladies room to have a cry and to get away from them.”

“I am not working now but had to give up previous voluntary work because of abuse I was receiving for being open about my views.”

“I am concerned that an increased influence of gender ideology in the public sphere will cause problems for me professionally. I have no intention of complying with their demands, as this goes against everything I believe to be beneficial to society, but I am aware that this may come with consequences.”

“Some of this would affect me differently as I am self employed, but my industry is very sold on gender ideology, so the consequences could still be high.”

“I would be concerned about a male (who identifies as female) administering personal care to a female without asking the patient if it is ok. I would not expect the patient to go along with the pretence that they are being attended to by a ‘female’ nurse.”

“It’s interesting that as we are edging the pay gap closer – misidentification would stop us measuring and set us back. I do think the tide is beginning to turn but only slightly and we need to keep pushing back. I work in a senior position in HR so have a lot of influence but still need to manage it carefully.”

“I can’t talk about my views at work. There is almost universal acceptance of gender ideology in big charities. And nobody reads both sides, e.g. Kathleen Stock is denounced without people reading what she wrote.”

“Women are adult human females. My generation fought for women’s rights, and women does not include men pretending to be women.”

“I would lose my job if I spoke out.”

“I work in personal care and service… It used to be acceptable in my line of work (where we are in intimate contact with peoples naked bodies) for female practitioners to explicitly limit their services to women (as in female) only… in addition many clients have hard boundaries about only having a specific sex as provider. This is often related, for both practitioners and clients, to a past history of abuse, though it can often be religious or even just valid personal preference. Now the law in my state says that if someone “identifies” as a woman we have to work on them… and the booking side of the businesses cannot “discriminate” against a practitioner who calls themselves a woman if a client calls and requests a female practitioner. It puts both providers and the businesses which they work out of in extremely inappropriate positions of either having to violate peoples clearly stated boundaries or risk the kind of crap that happened at Wi Spa. My heart was breaking for the employees there, I have been put in similar positions and its horrid. On the flip side, dealing with an irate customer who validly requested a female practitioner and then has a meltdown when a male with an identity comes to pick them up for their apt, and the front desk is forced to pretend like they don’t know why the customer is upset because the employee with an identity will sue for employment discrimination is also horrid… and I know the Wi Spa stuff was a shook to a lot of people, but it wasn’t to me as I’ve seen it first hand as the gender identity laws have been hitting our industry for several years.”

“I teach at a medical school. I am surrounded by this ideological capture. I am planning to retire early because this is overwhelming my work and home life.”

“The abuse women face is constant threatening and nothing seems to be done regarding action against those making threats why are these people not held to account by the police and courts.”

“Very concerned that the NGOs and other global organisations will undermine all efforts towards improving women’s condition in the Global South through being unable to articulate and target the source of women’s oppression (ie, their sex.)”

“I refuse to do the pronouns thing at work. I do feel that this may cause problems for me.” 

“I am retired. If I was at work (i.e. in the NHS), my gender critical views would probably have been a problem and may have led to disciplinary action against me.”

“I don’t mind referring to a male as “she” if that’s what s/he wants. For me, that’s just courtesy. But no organisation should enforce gender ideology upon its staff, either overtly or by not preventing harassment of gender-critical staff. This is particularly awful in universities, which are supposed to be dedicated to the pursuit of truth and evidence-based thinking, but which have become quasi-theocratic.”

“I’m self-employed and fortunate that I’m not directly impacted by this, though in theory I could be in the future.” 

“I think it is probably harder for young GC women starting on their careers -they have more at stake when the vast majority of their professional lives lie ahead of them, and the pressure to fall into line will therefore be more intense.”

“I despair. I was told, by a manager, that transwomen really become female.”

“Stonewall need to get out of the workplace.”

“I’ve noticed in my sector (the voluntary sector) that a lot of organisations – charities – have adopted the gender identity language and way of being. The most bizarre is perhaps an organisation trying to tackle period poverty that doesn’t mention women or girls!! I just don’t think that there’s been enough open debate. Most people on the left – and that would include the majority of people working in charities, I’d suggest – are Guardian readers, and the Guardian has been relentlessly pro-trans and anti gender critical. The Times has taken the opposite viewpoint with some very intelligent reporting and thought pieces, but in my sector the Guardian will be more influential. When I attend my CEO women’s network, I haven’t found any trans members to be there (yet!) and I know that the chair is highly gender critical. The CEOs’ association isn’t using trans language, so that’s a positive sign. But there’s certainly quite a bit of groupthink going on. It infuriates me that a man can win “woman of the year” awards and I’m very concerned about trans identified males being able to take women’s places on committees etc., where there’s a need to have a sex balance. How can a man claim to represent women’s needs and interests? Yet they’re heading Labour party women’s committees; student union committees; taking places on boards meant for women…it’s scandalous.”

“I can only speak to a few work colleagues who share gender critical views about my dismay at the impacts of gender identity ideology on children, youth and women. I have enough autonomy that I don’t have to play the pronoun game verbally or in my signature. Because the mainstream media and governments in Canada completely co-opted by gender identity ideology, so many people aren’t getting access to accurate information on what’s happening to women and children.”

“I am actually retired but I’ve answered above as if I were still in teaching, where I would be heavily impacted and would almost certainly get no support from my own union! Besides, I don’t think you actually need to be in paid work to answer some of these questions.”

“Money and focus that should be going to advancing women’s equity in Women and Gender Equity group at work, is being sidelined to focus on trans issues. Survey stats on the number of employees who are lesbian/gay/women/men/trans are being distorted by only asking about gender identity, so any further stats on pay scale or discrimination for women as a sex class will include males.”

“I left academia because I was utterly sickened by its embrace of gender ideology. Not only because it would have been personally dangerous for me to stay as a gender critical feminist, but also because I just couldn’t stomach seeing gender ideology enthusiastically waved around by supposed ‘feminists’ at every turn. There are so many shocking and terrible consequences of this movement, but for me personally, the total abdication of critical thinking by academics has been one of the hardest things to come to terms with. Frankly, as a woman and a doctor of philosophy, I feel completely betrayed on both counts. I also volunteer for a women’s charity which has embraced gender ideology; I love the work but know that I will have to maintain silence if I am to stay with them. So, I’m self-censoring about the greatest threat to women in living memory, so that I can stay on and help women in a small, different way. Those kind of mental contortions and calculations are brutally sad and exhausting.”

“I’m horrified that places of supposed academic rigour have abandoned biological reality re gender ideology.”

“After I have sacrificed my time to raise my son, I was looking forward to continue studies where I could somehow do useful feminist work but since I am mostly interested in writing/media/communication I am worried it will not be possible to pursue it because of constant tip toeing around language or refusing to use “pronouns” and all the things that women are currently being persecuted for now.”

“I have been warned about promoting GC views at work.”

“I worked with female survivors of male violence all my adult life in predominately single sex spaces. In residential services especially, women only spaces are essential to provide physical and more importantly, psychological safe environments for our most vulnerable and abused women and children to heal and start to rebuild their lives.”

“I am retired so the questions about work don’t apply to me. It would have been nice to have a N/A category (Not Applicable).”

“I’m a self employed consultant working with women’s charities. So many of them are infested with this issue so I provide lawful policy advice but I’m very disappointed that the federations – Rape Crisis England & Wales; Women’s Aid & Imkaan don’t speak freely about the impact this issue has on local services.”

“There’s a lot of hypocrisy from some organisations about women – particularly some political parties.”

“I am a therapist. Most of the registering bodies for therapists are totally captured by gender shite. Thank God for James Esses. We need to fight the woke stasi in all health and welfare professions. James’ case is very important for all of us.”

“I regard gender identity ideology as a belief, and one that people are entitled to hold. But it’s becoming compulsory to signal adherence to that faith in the workplace, which we wouldn’t allow in the case of any other faith. E.g. my employer has just marked Transgender Day of Remembrance with a ceremony and the trans flag flying all day. The rhetoric draws on the urban myth that large numbers of trans-identifying people have been killed by bigots “because of who they are”. In reality, of course, no trans people have been killed in the UK for the last three years – there’s no evidence-base for marking the day. It’s a way of performing compliance to the sacred ideology. I don’t think workplaces should do that.”

“I’ve been a professional school counsellor for 8 years. I completed grad school right before gender ideology really took hold. That was not very long ago at all. In the time that I have been working in my field, gender ideology has snaked its way into almost every aspect of professional spaces of all kinds, including mine. When I was working in Chicago Public Schools, I was made to take a “sensitivity training” in which the presenter described what it means to be “trans” as if it were fact. I have since relocated to a smaller city, but one that is still mostly liberal. I have not been assigned any gender ideology trainings yet. Yet. If gender ideology continues on its current trajectory it will happen. More and more people will question why I don’t put pronouns in my email signature. It will become more and more apparent that I’m the last holdout. Part of me truly doesn’t care if this happens, but I know it will likely be at the expense of my livelihood. I am prepared to fight, but this culture is making it more difficult by the day for women to hold onto our sex-based rights and freedom of speech.” 

“I’m retired. But a big question for myself is the presence of male-bodied persons in elder care etc. This will be a big problem for me because of earlier trauma if I myself will need daily care when I grow old. And there is also the possibility of being unable to refuse to be cared for by a male-bodied person identifying as a woman.” 

“There will surely be a movement now that will get rid of biological women in positions of power. Men can’t handle women in it so now they will erase us.”

“I work mostly with Lesbian groups/individuals and these above concerns apply to them as well.” 

“There is big money at stake, by pharma, surgeons etc., in promoting trans ideology without any critical analysis. They haven’t read story of emperor s new clothes.”

“I am a medical professional and am worried about getting sued for misgendering patients.”

“Q46. I am not impacted in my present employment, but one of the reasons I don’t wish to go back to charity/not 4 profit sector is GI ideology capture of many of these orgs.”

“I run my own business in the arts which relies on online presence. If I expressed my views publicly the business would collapse.”

“I am avoiding rape crisis due to the inclusion of males, I am frightened to speak about this at work in case I get investigated, when I do speak out I worry about it afterwards. As a survivor of male violence I am terrified that I will have to share a toilet with a trans-identified male as my female toilets at work are quite isolated.”

“I am an academic at a UK university which is a gender ideology hotbed. Even though I am on a contract and couldn’t be sacked, if my views were known I can see that my life would be made so unbearable (and unsafe-feeling) that I would have to leave my job (a job I love) as Kathleen Stock has. I feel terrible that I cannot speak up courageously as she has done, but I do not think I am strong enough to survive the kind of abuse that is aimed at her, and financially I have a responsibility to my family to protect my job (I am the only wage-earner). I am also a published writer and am afraid that my career will be ruined if my views become public. I have already seen that happen to a close friend.”

“I work for the charities sector and there are two or three trans identifying people in the organisation. This has led to a push for pronouns in email signatures. I have quietly resisted thus far by just not doing it, but it will only be a matter of time before I am asked directly. I know one other employee, a senior team member, is gender critical, but he has gone along with the pronouns.”

“I am retired but very relieved that I managed to avoid this bullshit during my working life. I am very concerned for women in the workforce who are having to deal with this rubbish.”

“I believe in live and let live but not to the point where women are being cancelled, sex based statistics are skewed, women’s only spaces are being invaded etc. Trans women are not women. Because a man feels or believes he is a woman does not make him one, that is biologically impossible. I might want to identify as a cat and wear a furry suit and meow but I’m biologically still not a cat.”

“When I was an associate research fellow at a university a few years ago – complaint was made against me by a man pretending to be a lesbian – this resulted in my name being dropped from the departmental list.”

“For Q46 I put not at all but that is because there has been no impact Yet. This could change at any time.”

“I have been warned at work that my gender critical views must not be voiced at risk of a formal warning. I’m a trade union official and I know my union’s advice to its members is in breach of the EA 2010. I am in fear of my job and feel sick every day I go in.”

“I have already been publicly cancelled, lost a nationally recognized role, and falsely smeared as bigoted on social media. I support everyone who is a victim of cancel-culture over this issue, women and men.”

“I have witnessed women’s organisations, set up to support female survivors of male violence in all its forms, forcing gender ideology on to staff and service users without debate or space for dissent.”

“I’m a therapist. My colleagues put their pronouns in their emails and use the word “they” for everyone and are all about affirming patient’s gender identity no matter what. I’m not doing those things, and if anyone challenges me I do risk losing my work because I won’t pretend to accept trans ideology. I’ve had one experience counselling a married couple in which a man in a dress, wig, and makeup was hostile at his wife because she was no longer interested in sex with him. She sat there while he berated her and claimed he was the same person so why should her feelings change? He wanted to start dressing like that all the time despite having young children who wouldn’t be developmentally able to process it yet. I asked him to consider the needs of his family as well as his own. They didn’t return for a second session.”

“Men who say they are women are treated as men in practice in terms of giving them awards for their achievements in the workplace as women, taking success from actual women. These things operate on a conscious and subconscious level- humans are so used to putting men first and valuing what men do more than what is done by a woman.”

“I am retired now so this does not apply to me. However ideology does not belong in a workplace.”

“I’ve already talked about this in previous boxes! Sorry I’m slightly running out of energy here. In general, it’s shitty to be self monitoring in yet another way, to be treated like an atheist at a strict Christian school (been there!) yet again having to fake pray, but this time by people I really, really feel should know better, to feel like it’s roulette every time I talk to someone about women’s rights and liberation, or react to a guy as a guy even if he has long hair and a pink close fitting tshirt on. Why force me to assume gnc people are opposite sex!! Or to “ask” every time when even try hard trans activists don’t bother the conforming “cis” people and regularly “assume their gender”, particularly of older people.  There has got to be a mental tax on all of this and I guess I do feel it. Someone more prone to being guilt tripped would face more.”

“An example of this is the chief exec of Scotland rape crisis centre who is a self identified woman, a complete travesty when their aim is to re-educate women who might object to the fact that they don’t want to see or be in contact with a trans-woman because of the trauma.”

“I work in feminist organizations and the pressure to adopt a gender identity policy is very high. It takes conscious steps to counteract this and to keep a feminist focus when donors threaten us as well.”

“Already spoken on, but to add, in the field of social work/social services, the main focus of where limited funds is being poured into is this gender ideology BS, instead of to clients and other types of training where it should be. This is CRIMINAL. Poverty, violence, mental health, addictions, homelessness – instead of this focus, it is on how some guy in a dress needs to feel included! And then resources are poured into taking staff’s time for “”training”” and on and on and doors open to men even when women are uncomfortable, if a female says so, she is given the door and the man is welcome in!”

“I have had trans- and nonbinary-identified coworkers at several of my most recent jobs. I try not to use their “preferred pronouns” and if they start talking to me about gender identity I don’t respond so that they hopefully move on to a different topic. Currently, I do not feel that I can become friends outside of work with any of my coworkers because I don’t trust them enough to let them know about my personal life–my reading material, my radical feminist/gender critical friends, any activism I do, et cetera.”

“We are supposed to pretend to obey by an ideology that is not rooted in facts but in fantasies and beliefs and it’s really absurd that so many just go along with it. It’s like people suddenly would say that the earth is flat, pigs can fly and God created the world in six days. And then punish people for not repeatedly make those claims in all the situations you give as an example above.” 

“I am retired (thankfully). If I were still in the workforce (and I am a retired academic) I don’t know how I would cope with being told to put my pronouns in my email signature, allow males into the female restrooms or call students by pronouns that don’t relate to their sex. If I wanted to stay in my job I would most likely be forced to do so, despite rejecting this issue with every fibre of my being. I have seen what has happened to so many women (particularly lesbian) academics who dare to stand their ground and I am disgusted at the way they have been treated by their workplaces, their students and colleagues and the unions that are supposed to be there to support them. As for mandatory training in gender “inclusivity” I would have major problems with that too.”

“We are being silenced by men once again. This is a men’s movement make no mistake. Erasure is their objective. They want to invade any space that women hold and control and oppress us in every way they can. Their aim is to legally change everything so we have no rights and no comeback.” 

“The belief that people can change sex as they change their minds makes a mockery of gender equality programs. When a 40-year-old man who rose to a position of power based on male privilege suddenly ‘becomes a woman’ he changes the gender equality ratings of his profession, his employer and the female sex. It’s wrong. It’s bad science and worse statistics.”

“It is very alarming that women are being trampled all over in the workplace; as far as I’m concerned, seeing pronouns in colleague’s e-mail signatures is not that far from seeing porn calendars on the walls. It feels like a hostile environment where that sexism has to be accepted in silence because the consequences of challenging it might be professional suicide.” 

“It is a great infringement of women’s rights to give ANY biological male even if they are now legally female ANY position reserved for a woman.”

“I work in a University, although we have left Stonewall gender ideology is still a nightmare. All our policies mention gender not sex.” 

“Thank god my boss is GC so I have some one to talk to. But every time I get a whiff of this ideology with professional colleagues, it makes me sick.”

“I’m retired but greatly concerned about what I see happening in the workplace for women.”

“I am very concerned about the influence of lobby groups in public institutions and the media and the possibility of the legal system being corrupted by this ideology, people should be free to be critical of gender identity without fear of being sacked or cancelled and the damage done to children needs to be exposed, it looks like we are heading for a big scandal once the consequences of these practices on children and young women in particular come to light, we cannot afford them getting ahead and being able to cover it up or spin it.”

“I’m a self employed gardener so it’s fortunately not relevant for my work. I think the general level of fear about speaking out, even in a very moderate way, about any GC beliefs is very concerning. I find it frightening that this trans ideology has such a firm grip.”

“In my voluntary role, there is a lot of talk about inclusion and diversity with most weighting given to LGBTQ issues, but normally it is about gender identity. This makes it difficult to express opinions. At my university, we have lots of emails about how the university is a safe space for trans students and staff. My university is part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme and promotes Stonewall ideology/law. It does not feel a safe space for women to express views about our rights. There are a lot of trans special days that get celebrated loudly and students walk about with trans flags on a daily basis.”

“I work in a university where a woman colleague has been threatened for stating that sex is unchangeable.”

“Every step towards equality made by women is now under threat.”

“This is nothing short of an attempt to wipe out women as a sex group.”

“I am mandated at my job to use pronouns and allow men into the women’s rooms without question or else I will be seen as discriminating. Many people have pronouns in their signatures and bios. It wouldn’t bother me that much except I see them now giving more advancements and promotions to crossdressing men rather than women who’ve worked for years in the roles. I see people afraid to address fraud when they know it is happening. I also don’t understand why I have to get emails and events every other day about gender issues. It’s so pervasive and relentless.”

“I have such huge admiration for the woman who are in work and academia who are speaking up. I don’t know how to re-enter the kinds of work I used to do as at this point they have all been captured.” 

“I’m tired of having all women’s groups defined by men, whether it’s by the group being defined as being for “non-cis-men”, or invariably being the only kind of group where talk about gender “inclusivity” takes up a lot of the air time vs actual strategies on how to get ahead professionally. I feel like women’s groups are a trap to collect a bunch of vulnerable people together to preach at us about how we can do even more work to take care of grown adults who should be able to manage themselves at work.”

“I moved to a more conservative area partly to take myself out of an extremely gender captured environment.” 

“The place where I see the ideology and also the censorship pushed most is in NGOs supposedly dedicated to women’s rights and feminism, which breaks my heart. But it is becoming a problem in my field as well. Women, who are already underrepresented in the field, will have an even harder time now with gender identity ideology becoming enshrined in law and policy.”

“I’m so angry that we are opening up women’s spaces to MEN.”

“As a woman, now in my 60s, I encountered a lot of sex discrimination at work. I worked in some male dominated industries, and (I hope) made some progress in breaking down inappropriate stereotypes and behaviours for others and myself. It feels now like we are going backwards.”

“I answered some of the questions as to how it affects me at my own place of work now re a couple of the questions. It is a religious school so they have no truck with gender ID at all.”

“I work for some of the orgs mentioned above. It is a nightmare.”

“Seeing prizes, grants, awards going to men identifying as women would have seemed like a nightmarish joke even a few years ago. But I know of a talented writer hounded out of work by a phoney trans/non binary individual who assiduously pursues both male & female “identities”, all the better to further their career. A bit like Eddie Izzard these days. No-one can call out such behaviour no matter how much it reveals self interest at its core.”

“I work at a university. While I have not had to interact with anyone claiming to be trans or wanting to be referred to by bespoke pronouns my university has made it clear that under their interpretation of the non-discrimination policies regarding protected classes (gender identity is a protected class in my state) that “preferred” pronouns should be used and that males should be allowed to use the women’s bathrooms based on nothing more than a claim to be trans. This obviously makes me very uncomfortable, and has ramped my distrust of the powers that be within the institution up to 11.”

“As a care giver my experience is majority of my patients both male and female prefer a woman for personal care.”

“All of this has already happened across the globe and it’s infuriating.”

“I was a volunteer for a local women’s aid. I applied for a paid post there after a while. At interview, the second question was “What barriers do you perceive are faced by transwomen when accessing services?” This tells me that when recruiting women’s domestic abuse practitioners their priority is how we will treat men who present as women, rather than the natal women whose needs are far greater.”

“Our elder females have fought to get us to where we are today, and now men are STILL stealing the limelight by pretending to be us. It’s infuriating.” 

“First it was Woman of the Year and now in business, in literature and in sport, all over the world men are taking what belongs to women. Taking our jobs in politics, taking our spaces, taking our awards. So much was sacrificed to secure these for women and now they are being stolen from us by what is basically a religious ideology. I do not believe in a gendered soul desperate for us to divine what it is trying to say and then express it.”

“It doesn’t leave space for self employment where you have to be careful what you allow to be public because it could cost you work assignments.”

“I am retired so ‘work place’ is not applicable. If I had remained in my workplace answers to questions 46, 47, 48 would be ‘A great deal’.”

“I am genuinely scared this ideology will take over (if it hasn’t already) every important institution.”

“Ironic that the women with the most professional power are the least able to fight back.”

“I’m also very concerned that in a medical context, like ob/gyn or if I needed help with personal hygiene in a hospital setting, I could be pressured to accept those services from a male even if I ask for a woman.”

“I would like to challenge the narrative presented at work, including guidance issued to staff telling us that any male who says he is a woman is allowed to use women’s toilets, but feel unable to do so.”

“I am retired now but I used to be politically active in getting more women into technology. It doesn’t help natal women to advance transwomen in their stead. Conversely it doesn’t help organisations get women’s voices heard if they appoint transwomen.” 

“Who can you trust? I hate Scotland right now and feel so upset and angry at what has been done to women and professional spaces. It really upsets me that the CEO of Rape Crisis Edinburgh is a male transgender women with disgusting views towards young rape victims. Totally repulses me.”

“I have been fired from a job for being gender critical.”

“We don’t discuss politics in a “GC” way or in those terms in my team. But my team supported me and agreed with me when I had been complained about and we are all on the same page. I’m not worried about losing my job because of my views as I’m older and can afford a legal case. My younger colleagues can’t and are much more careful.“

“I work for [a NHS board], our equalities & human rights team advised against a women’s health network being focused exclusively on, and I quote, ‘birth gender females’ as this would exclude trans women & non binary people. They refused to engage in discussion re context and needs of women affected by male violence.” 

“There is no greater act of woman-hating than a man claiming that he is, in any way, a woman. Organizations who adopt this ideology are institutionalizing woman-hating into their workplace, their policies, their products – rendering the workplace, university, public sphere unsafe for women and girls.” 

“I have been deplatformed professionally and face the threat of more backlash.”

“The number of women having to stay silent about their beliefs at work is horrifying. Stonewall’s influence has been malignant and must be reversed.”

“Concerned that the incursion of men into women’s careers is now so great that we can’t overcome it. If they are even in the women’s groups then we cannot freely discuss the issue.”

“It is incredibly disheartening to see how women are being phased out of the workforce and back into the home, as subordinate to men, in favour of men claiming to be women taking the roles and positions that were fought for on account of our sex-based exclusion.” 

“I am a mature student studying psychology. The information in my course materials was biased to the point that a non-binary former academic trans-rights campaigner actually sneered in an interview filmed for our course at ‘gender critical women’. Also sneered at the idea that some women really do want or need single sex toilets. This person was also teaching, for the same part of the course – wait for it – consent!  I saw a thread on FB once from OU students asking who had LGBTQ things in their modules. The answers covered basically every discipline. The physics and maths students in particular I found incredible. This wasn’t extra materials from the university, it was very specifically written into module materials.”

“It’s terrifying to know we’re living in a time when we can be kicked out of school or fired from a job because we don’t want to play into a man’s weird validation fetish. I don’t feel comfortable referring to my creepy male coworker making no effort to pass as a fellow woman, but we now live in a world in which women can be jailed for tweets and I really need to keep my job, so I grin and bear it and reject his repeated advances as sweetly as I can. It makes me feel physically ill. And I don’t even want to get into my outrage when it comes to males now being credited as “the first woman to do -insert great achievement here-“. Narcissistic men are continuing to silence and write women out of existence, but now we have social media to make it even more extreme and encourage this behavior.”

“The fear of being sacked/expelled is quite a powerful tool to keep women silent.”

“Just a few years ago I never would have thought that gender identity would affect where I am comfortable working and where I would avoid applying, but if pronouns and gender language comes up, I know that is someplace I will not want to work.”

“I actually have lost a job due to circumstances related to gender identity ideology. Ironically, it was a job teaching self defence, mostly to women.”

“It feels ironic to say that I feel lucky to work for a conservative woman, but I really do. She thinks gender ideology is bullshit, and we freely talk about it together.”

“Gender ideology is slowly creeping in to my work place, and I am terrified to say what I really think about it, for fear of losing my job or at the least, being bullied.”

“I avoid the brunt of it by never, ever discussing my feminist views. I rarely refer to anyone in the 3rd person, I use their names.”

“No concern about women helping with personal care for men. But greatly concerned that I could be forced to have a man, male born, man administering personal care to women and girls.”

“I am a retired professor/scientist. I have asked my colleagues about GII, the men roll their eyes and say they just ignore it. The women are more fearful. No one I know in the biological sciences believes any of this. Some think it is a misunderstanding of the use of words, others think it is a problem in the humanities and has no relevance to the sciences. No one will put their pronouns in their title and they avoid using any pronouns in classes.”

“Women have been effectively erased in many workplaces including nonprofits and “”movement”” groups.””

“Just that I would have liked to stay in my job for longer, but chose retirement rather than fight the NHS, my union the NEU [National Education Union] would probably not have supported me in asserting that sex is determined at fertilisation and unchangeable despite knowing (NOT BELIEVING!!) this as objective biological fact! I note that National Curriculum Biology in the U.K. has not changed!!!”

“We have a trans man at the restaurant I work at and I have misgendered this person a few times accidentally and always corrected myself after, but it always feels so unnatural. I don’t like working with them because they are only 17 but could potentially get me fired if I said the wrong thing, even trying as hard as I can to respect them. That’s to say nothing of the fear of being doxxed.”

“I am concerned that I cannot associate my political and personal feelings on gender identity with my name because it will negatively affect my ability to keep my job.”

“Being a woman in most professional spaces was still hard enough before the ideology nonsense was added. It is really unfair that once again women get sacrificed. This ideology is setting women’s liberation back years.”

“Trans ideology is a great way to destroy feminism and kick women back from all the gains they have made in professional places.”

“In my workplace we have name tags, and putting pronouns on those tags is optional. The entire environment is very ‘trans-friendly’ (read: woman-hostile), and I have noticed that most of my coworkers who bend over backwards to ‘respect’ other people’s preferred pronouns are also female. I have had to create a workaround for referring to anyone using non-standard pronouns (trans or non-binary identified coworkers) – by simply not using pronouns at all. I’ve also had people subtly test me (again, also female coworkers) when referring to a trans coworker, like watching if I was going to ‘mess up’.  I find myself hesitant to use standard pronouns for other female co-workers who do not have their pronouns listed, even though I also have abstained from this! Having realized this recently, I am going to default to standard pronouns. When the person is not there, it is absolutely none of their business how I talk about him or her.”

“I am not as concerned for myself only because I live in a pretty much undeveloped country where people still have better things to do than daydream about their gender identity, but I already have a lot of acquaintances who ‘fight’ for transpeople (bruh, we have dozen of underage girls kidnapped for marriage every month and this is what you care for?)”

“I’m retired, so I don’t have to worry about bowing to anyone’s “gender identity” at work. But I do fear the moment when I will be expected to in other situations. If I ask for a woman professional to attend me, I will expect her to be an actual woman, or I will walk out.”

“I was lucky to earn a place on a women in leadership scheme in my workplace, which was also open to gender diverse individuals. I feel fortunate that my cohort was all female and we were given a space to discuss issues of misogyny in the workplace without having to tiptoe around our language. I was a women’s rep for diversity and inclusion in my workplace and prioritized women’s issues – child care, maternity leave and returning to work, female role models, period health, menopause. I feel very fortunate that I was never challenged about this, but I was often worried that it would come up.”

“The creation of women-only committees, scholarships, awards etc., was necessary to provide space and resources for women to develop knowledge, skills and abilities to move forward in society, especially in traditionally male dominated spaces and professions. This need has not decreased.”

“There was a university course I have visited that in a social etiquette/ rules document stated that a) it is not possible to know someone’s sex (which is simply wrong and disturbing in a scientific context) and b) we should refer to people with their preferred pronouns (which I also find deeply disturbing, because being told to deny what I can perceive with my own senses is abusive). In the very short time I was there that topic did not come up again, but I found it quite troubling, because if it had I would have had to decide to either act against myself and my believes or to also act against myself and be possibly expelled or attacked.”

“I fear for my career if I speak out and yet I believe what most people believe but we are too scared to challenge this pernicious ideology openly for fear of losing employment, promotion, and finding opportunities.”

“Without outing myself, my professional organization which organizes women in STEM has given a prominent leadership role to a man who transitioned only 2 years ago and gave the largest grant, earmarked for women in STEM, to a man who had transitioned just that year. There is no shortage of trans identified males in my field and it’s very disturbing to see how they’ve used their male privilege to set women back further.”

“We fought for so long to get places reserved for women born women. Cf the struggle for black consciousness raised via black only groups.”

“I work as a volunteer for a national organisation. GI has not raised its head yet. As a volunteer I don’t depend on my work as my income, so I feel I would be braver in confronting the issues than I would if I were dependent on an income. I am also a member of a political organisation and I am beginning to be louder within it in confronting the GI onslaught.”

“I wrote my Master’s Thesis on a gender-critical subject 13 years ago. Although the work was rated excellent, I was not offered mentoring or encouraged to pursue an academic career.”

“If I am not concerned re work for myself, it is because I’m already retired. RE question 54: This already happened in many countries, I heard. It happened in mine (Germany) at the last elections to the Bundestag (parliament) when two men, Slawik and Ganserer, both of the Green Party, disguised as women, were elected as “transwomen”, and all the wokes are applauding. Both these men took a woman’s place.”

“I do not work or volunteer and am not impacted but friends and family have expressed disquiet about the coercion this involves.”

“The adoption of this ideology in professional spaces feels like being held to ransom.”

“The word women also is rendered meaningless now. There is no space for women, we are being squeezed out of all spheres of public life unless we comply with our own erasure.”

“Concerned about the influence of pressure groups in the workplace, going under the name of advisors and trainers, namely Stonewall and Gendered Intelligence. Also the capture of unions by gender ideologists when they should be protecting all workers not implicitly encouraging bullying.”

“Sick to death of “women in XYZ” organizations allowing “anyone who identifies as a woman” into their spaces. All very well for the woke members but utterly off-putting for those who are not into this gender rubbish. Forces many women to self exclude, another thing not talked about enough.” 

“I work at a hospital and I am very concerned about the introduction of gender category options in healthcare, e.g. in patient’s medical records, instead of biological sex. The impact this has on same sex hospital wards for example, and the integrity of medical data is highly concerning.”

“I am a retired Forensic mental health nurse specialist and have never been so glad to be retired.”

“I’m not concerned about me. I will keep my own mind and only say what is true, but I am concerned of people who have more to lose.”

“I left uni partly to do with the fact I just could not be myself or say anything about what I felt about pretty much anything at all.”

“I have had my livelihood (professional registration) threatened for my views on child gender transitioning.”

“I’m concerned about male people giving personal care to female clients, after they’ve requested someone who’s female.”

“Universities and journalism, both based on the foundation of free speech appear to be the focus of this ideology currently, following the news coverage of Dr Kathleen Stock and Jo Phoenix, I worry that women will be pushed out of academia and we will see a distinct change where lecturers bow to the demands of the students.”

“I notice in text books I use in teaching the term gender is used when sex should be more correctly used.” 

“I work in a state job as a computer programmer with zero visibility to the public, so in some ways I’m “safer” from cancellation and the like, though I would be lying if I said I’m not worried at all.  I’ve had two people transition at my workplace (one in each direction) and it was largely a non-event, they took 2 weeks leave and came back with new name and pronouns. The thing about a professional workplace is people are.. professional, and so no one said a thing on the clock. After work over some beers, turns out the men were very weirded out by the FTM individual, which surprised me some (women feeling upset at the MTF I was more expecting). I obeyed the pronouns, because my view is, it’s not worth losing my job (and my ability to support my community) over it. If someone asks me my views to my face, “do you think so-and-so is really a woman?” I’d have to say no, same way as I would answer “do you think my god is real?” But in my professional workplace, the transgender individuals were smart enough to know not to ask that question. I see people starting to voluntarily put their pronouns in their email signatures and zoom tags, and that is disturbing me a bit. I am not doing it, I hope it doesn’t become required. If it does, likely I’d have to go along, because again, I’m not going to risk my job over it in middle age. Non-platforming upsets me a great deal, free speech is probably my most important issue. I’ve had friends who are in the media (artists) be actually cancelled and denied income over this. They inspire me, but their stories just make me rage.”

“Gender is a political ideology that does not belong in the workplace, pronouns in your email signature is no different from announcing a religious belief or political affiliation, neither of which are appropriate in a pluralist society. The expectation that you state your pronouns is compelled speech and therefore an infringement of Free Speech.”

“Q51. I am concerned about men offering personal care to female clients.”

“I’m self employed and worry about attacks on my business.”

“I have been relatively open at work with a few people, but not so much with wider colleagues as we have a big ‘DEI’ agenda where even questioning gender vs sex is seen as transphobic. I can’t keep quiet though, as it’s affecting all aspects of my life, so I’m worried that this may therefore have a negative impact on my work situation and relationships. I find it deeply offensive that men are able to identify as women and then take places on boards, awards designed for women and jobs for women. Gender dysphoria is a condition where people need support. However the social and sexual oppression that women and girls experience PURELY because of their sex is something a man will never know or be able to identify with. I feel sick when we have meetings where people share their ‘pronouns’ as it makes me feel isolated and that they believe that TWAW, which also means they believe that men can be lesbians, and this makes me feel very unsafe. I genuinely don’t think most people realise the implications of the message they’re giving using pronouns and how that is NOT ‘inclusive’ for many people, including myself.”

“As I said before, I haven’t suffered much myself (though I recognise others have), but then I work in a job where being a maverick can be seen as a strength. It’s still a commercial enterprise, though, and I’ve been told that we cannot be seen as supporting the idea that transwomen are men, so a line has been spelled out to me. About affirming colleagues: as I represent the company, I do use people’s preferred pronouns when the occasion arises. So, for example, I used someone’s preferred pronoun (they) this week and something clicked – it feels good to do that. (It feels wrong on intellectual grounds, but on the instinctive level it’s also a relief – finally I’m not the big, bad, socially illiberal wolf.) It activates the self-interest part of your brain. You know people will notice, approve and give you kudos for it. I can understand why people wouldn’t want to let go of that source of approval, especially when it is tied to professional recognition.”

“Women are being driven out of politics and academia, being deplatformed and cancelled by men claiming to be women, and women who are brainwashed into drinking the woka kola. We need to raise awareness of these despicable tactics.”

“I resigned from Refuge, a so-called service for women after almost 10 years in part due to discussions / plans to allow trans into refuges. The organisation is awash with pronoun culture.”

“I am not employed at the moment. I used to work as a nurse and had male patients. It was normal. The difference is they didn’t identify as women. They were simply a male patient. But I oppose for women in position such as police work or airport employee, being FORCED to do body searches on men pretending to be women and demanding a female employee searches them. Body searches should be done by someone of the same biological sex. No women should be obliged to touch male genitals, while doing her job, if she doesn’t want to.”

“Women have fought hard for the rights they have today. And now these rights are being taken away because men want in on the act. Men are jealous that we had victories. Maybe men want a bit more attention and hope they’ll get it by playing the victim. This makes me so angry!! We need to be able to speak about these issues without being dismissed as being hateful. Most feminists want everyone to have rights. Just because they focus on women, which is the whole point of feminism, we are called transphobic and accused of causing ‘mental and physical pain to trans people. Yet they are the ones silencing us!”

“We have already seen women hounded out of their jobs for having GC views.”

“Women as a sex should not be inclusive of men.”

“As an academic I would be sacked and refused a platform and funding if I spoke openly about my views. This feels akin to living in a fascist regime.”

“I am also concerned about women being cared for by men who claim to be women. The caring relationship is very finely balanced with a need for a very high level of trust. I would be very concerned if women were being coerced into accepting male carers against their instinctive norm. I am so concerned about the issues in academia. Professionals need to be able to do their jobs and this entails being honest and open appropriately within their faculties. Debate should be encouraged within respectful boundaries.”

“Kathleen Stock, it’s a showcase in bullying and cowardice. If you pander to the mob, they become emboldened.”

“Concerned that this misogyny is being cheered on by some politicians, media outlets, education establishments and seems like a large number of young people.”

“No one should lose their job or be afraid to speak because of an ideology with no basis in science. Women are unique. Gender stereotypes do not make someone a man or a woman.”

“Gender identity ideology is rooted in sexist stereotypes of what it means to be a woman or man and this ideology should have no place in any public body, company or institution.”

“It seems like a lot of big NGOs and institutions are already indoctrinated and changing their language not using the word women anymore.”

“I am retired but my former profession in broadcasting (TV &Radio) it would have been a concern as it seems itv, sky, c4, bbc etc have all been captured and now are anti gay, unless being gay includes dating the opposite sex!!! If I were working today I would be well and truly back in the closet.”

“I feel very lucky to work in a place where the vast majority of people with whom I interact via phone & email are conservative blue-collar men, and the few people with whom I interact face-to-face are conservative women (Trump voters, to be clear). This is a bizarre position to be placed in, as I’m a lifelong “bleeding-heart liberal” who has traditionally had very little in common, at least politically, with red-state Republicans. I feel safer speaking my mind in my workplace than my husband, a university professor, does in his.”

“As Jennifer Bilek has reported, this is an INDUSTRY. This is a top down highly financed movement that is profit driven. This is not a grassroots civil rights movement by a marginalized class. I’m concerned by the capture at every level of government, education, media, law, etc. We are fighting a juggernaut.”

“Our recent DEI training was deeply troubling in ignoring sex as an axis of oppression & using “cis” & talking about the importance of pronouns. There wasn’t even mention of sex on the slide about intersectionality. I’m alarmed at the enforced conformity of thought & the disincentive to ask questions in defence of women.”

“My grandson reported me to my employers; he didn’t name me, but had they chosen to proactively investigate they could have identified me. We don’t talk any more. It has felt like a bereavement to me, and also made me incredibly angry. Mao’s red guards share so many similarities with these TRAs. He’s a newly qualified biology teacher, which makes it all the more extraordinary, and causes me genuine concern for his students.”

“I’m so worried I’m considering advising my teen daughter not to go to university.”

“I answered “not at all” to the fear of being sacked because I have already been fired from my previous job. I am not surprised other women are afraid.”

“I worked in “queer” non profit where the focus continued to be on trans issues but specifically trans identified males even though it was regularly acknowledged that lesbian culture was dwindling due to the lack of attention (fewer lesbian films at film festivals, end of lesbian bars). And there’s also the issue of lesbian-focused events which were open to males as well as women who aren’t same-sex attracted.”

“I am fully in this space as I work for a very large humanitarian NGO. I am constantly fearful for my job, livelihood, and future employment prospects should colleagues find out about my gender critical views. I have heard my colleagues speak extremely disparagingly about “TERFs” and how much they hate them, and how much they hate JK Rowling. It is appalling to me because all of these people are extremely educated and privileged, and I grew up quite impoverished and am a survivor of pretty brutal domestic violence. Yet I have no doubt they would vindictively punish me if my views were discovered. I have joined a women’s sex based rights organization under a pseudonym because of this fear.” 

“Any small gains women have made in the past 50 years are being negated by the overt misogyny in telling women that men are women. The sex pay gap is misrepresented by a couple of high-earning men being presented as women.”

“What is there to say? We can all see what’s going on. We have to fight it. We need more collectives so women don’t feel isolated.”

“I hate the feeling of not knowing and not feeling able to ask others at work what they believe.”

“Women are already marginalised in the workplace. Seems like another attempt for males to further diminish women’s status and rights.”

“I’m not concerned about having to affirm people’s gender identity at work because I refuse to do it. If they try to insist on pronouns, I use their name instead. I am very concerned about the number of women being doxed for their GC views, I am one of them.”

“I have raised the issue of gender identity at my work, because I noticed that we keep statistics based on self-id: a client can be marked in the system as female, male or non-binary. I asked why we are keeping statistics based on an opinion, and doesn’t it falsify statistics if we mark down clients as non-binary, when in reality they are male or female like everyone else. I had a short conversation about it with a colleague, but I feel that many of them are in agreement with gender identity ideology and I’m not sure how much criticism I would be able to express. I’m not concerned about losing a job though, that would be illegal.”

“I am staying out of the workplace largely due to this ideology. My friends tell me what their experiences are and it makes me feel ill with stress, I would not be able to cope with it, it would send me into an episode.”

“I don’t do the activist or voluntary stuff I used to do. Rather than be insulted, abused or threatened I just walked away. I don’t know how I would cope if I still worked. Gender ideology is everywhere and I have just stepped back from a lot that I was doing. Everyone seems to think just being kind is all that is important, they don’t seem to see the bigger picture of the erosion of all women sex-based rights, or the abuse of the English language. I am furious about funding for women’s domestic violence refugees being based on whether men can access them, I am angry about women only swimming spaces being infiltrated by men. I am furious that a conference or a talk, or an attempt to study detransition is met with abuse, violence and threats. I am angry that a trans identifying man can say he is a woman and do intimate care for women. If the woman says, ‘that’s a man’ then they need to be ‘re-educated’. How messed up it that? I am angry that women can lose their jobs, their academic status and community just because they do not believe someone can change sex. I am sickened that a man can say he is a woman and they get kudos for being the most oppressed type of woman on the planet. These men can take women only jobs, get on women only short lists. None of this is even legal, yet they do it, and are applauded for being stunning and brave. I have a couple of health problems and have been sectioned to a loony bin in the past. The idea of being on a ward with a man in a dress would be horrendous. Reality testing is important if you are psychotic and this is the most evil form of psychiatric torture that could happen on a mental health ward… I am including forcible drugging and ECT when I say this gaslighting is the most sick thing they could do to a person experiencing psychosis.”

“Left leaning and liberal women and spaces are no longer safe and it hits me hard as a leftist woman. I feel homeless politically and sometimes socially.”

“I work in a non governmental organization that receives funds either from international and national foundations, I see how many of those funds are being taken from organizations like mine, working for women’s rights, and are now destined to those including “transwomen”.”

“Alarmed.”

“Most of us have to earn to live, and it’s excruciating when the workplace becomes so hostile. Again, Maya Forstater’s case has been a game changer for me – psychologically, and in practical terms. I’ve held it together for around 4 years in my workplace, with the last two being nearly intolerable. I’ve recently recognised that I’ve been in a state of frozen trauma response for a lot of the last two years. Because my work is with vulnerable women, victims of male violence, I feel I have to hang on, and hold the line for their sake. I have ten working years left and if necessary I will spend all of it continuing to hold that line.”

“Woke postmodernist ideas are ruining society. And it is intentional. Science and the Enlightenment era are being tossed aside in favour of chaos. Humanity had so much more potential and someone is steering us, as a whole, away from reaching that potential.” 

“As I am retired for 10 years the job market is outside of my person experience. Q51 l worked in nursing homes and administered personal care to male residents, but l suspect that is not what is meant here. But I did not like it, and did occasionally get sexual suggestions by some.”

“I don’t feel safe to express my gender critical beliefs in the work place, that’s why I don’t have any issue yet. But I feel deeply concerned about women like Maya Forstater, Kathleen Stock, Jo Phoenix, Rosa Freedman.”

“I have spoken about gender ideology at work, but I can only do so with select people. My role includes a lot of reputation management, and with recent accusations against Stonewall I am required to talk about the topic a lot. I have to use critical thinking on the subject as it is literally my job, but some colleagues immediately get defensive and suspicious if they perceive anything you say as criticism of Stonewall.  I also fell out with a friend who is in another team at my work, a team that I had applied to work in. This falling out terrified me for work prospects as I knew she had significant influence over senior members of the team. Finally, while the Maya Forstater case means my views are technically protected, my work has a very strong social media policy that prevents us from stating anything even vaguely political on social media. Given my particular role, it’s even harder for me to do this internally and externally as I might then be accused of lacking impartiality.  We also have an issue where a lot of gender ideology has slipped under the radar at work, e.g. gender neutral toilets being implemented during lockdown, mother being removed from the maternity policy. It’s difficult for women to argue for these changes to be reversed without revealing their politics and potentially being discriminated against on that basis.”

“I already know that if women’s orgs do not accept men they will be bullied into submission with funding being threatened. It’s like the whole gender movement have colonized everything to do with women so men can feel comfortable – but what women need or want does not matter – as long as those men have what they want – or face punishment.”

“We have to find each other, that’s all I want to say. And create our own spaces, universities, educational institutions. Really. It’s bad out there.”

“In 2008, I was a founding member of a feminist group in my local town. In 2018, I instigated a discussion about transgender ideology with the result that the group split up after a very unsisterly discussion in which I and four others were labelled ‘transphobic terfs’. We five continue to meet – but we have to do it in private.”

“Women’s rights and spaces need gender critical to organise and fight back. We are doing well so far and it is rewarding to see some changes begin to happen in people’s growing critical attitude towards transgenderism.”

“Men have long held the upper hand in work and professional spheres. They are now trying to display ‘equality’ in the workplace by using fake, i.e. trans, women to skew the figures. Were it not so damaging, it would be hilarious. You really couldn’t make this shit up.”

“It’s horrendous that a renowned woman professor, Kathleen Stock OBE, has been hounded out of her teaching position at the University of Sussex by trans ideologist mobs.”

“I feel like our universities are no longer about learning or critical thinking.”

“As a nurse, of course I am not concerned about women administering personal care to male clients. However if that male client is a ‘transwoman’ but does not state this upfront – then the situation may change.”

“I believe that the structures of many organisations have been compromised by unquestioning adoption of LGBTQ friendly policies, with little thought given to the impact on women. And women are afraid to speak up because the dominant narrative that has been built is that they are intolerant bigots if they question trans inclusion, and saying anything against trans inclusion is equated with being an anti-gay conservative rather than someone who cares about the rights and safety of women and girls – as we all should as a priority.”

“As a teacher, I feel I will have to give up my job at some point, as I will not collude to destroy the mental and physical health and the future of the wonderful children I teach.”

“I’m currently not at work but I have looked on and been horrified by what is taking place. Yes, we must ensure that no one at work is ever bullied due to sexuality, their gender expression or their ethnicity but this should also mean that you shouldn’t bully people out of their jobs for holding gender critical views especially when merely speaking about sex based rights or biological reality. You cannot make it illegal to speak about factual science at the same time pushing pseudoscience. We cannot live in a society where women are regularly deplatformed for refusing to believe debunked theories and for having the audacity to speak about subjects that directly affect women.”

“Yet another arena for oppressing and bullying women.”

“There is no discussion in our workplace. It is part of equality and diversity training, how to be inclusive. There is no space for challenging any of the assumptions that come with the new ideology. It is not even seen as an ideology. It is treated as on a par with anti-racism and anti-sexism. Who could possibly support transphobia? But what counts as transphobia has never been questioned. Supporting the rights of women, girls, heterosexual or lesbian is seen as conservative, reactionary, out of touch and out of place.”

“Women need to have dedicated female-only spaces in all spheres of life and to express their views within the law without cancelling or physical or digital threats.”

“My workplace favors transgender people above all others. Transgender employees can get away with wearing excluded clothing and jewelry, can be absent beyond the norm but retain their position, can take extended lunches and rest breaks, and share a closer “favored” relationship with managers. Many of us non-transgendered employees are angry about the inequality.”

“My boss has put pronouns in his email signature, but thankfully has not asked me to do so. My “TERF corner” at work has not come up in discussion, but I openly display Save Women’s Sports, Keep Prisons Single Sex, and Woman = Adult Human Female at my desk.”

“I have almost totally self-censored on social media to protect my career.”

“I work in a university completely in thrall to gender ideology. Students and colleagues have reported a self censorship which has impacted on the academic freedom – feeling that some things simply cannot be questioned or researched.”

“Q51 – women commonly administer personal care to men – as mums, relatives, wives, partners, nurses, ASC carers, therapists and so on. The opposite – men administering personal care to women, is the red flag.”

“Not personally a problem for me, but if I were still a teacher I am quite sure I would have been forced out because of my views by now.”

“At my work, people are compelled to put pronouns in emails. This feels hostile to me. I will not and I think I get away with it because I am freelance but it sickens me and sends the message to me that my views should be hidden. It tells me that they have been captured and I need to be careful what I say.”

“I’m about to be denied volunteering with a sex worker charity because of GC views.”

“Men in women’s prisons is an example I cannot get out of my head, where women officers have to intimately search men as if they are women so as not to discriminate. Imagine a job that makes you do that or you are sanctioned.”

“The cancel and no debate culture results in women being silenced or forced out of the workplace.”

“I am gender critical on Facebook. Someone researched me online and then reported me to my Professional Association and they cancelled my membership. Thank goodness I am self-employed and can choose my own clients and therefore could be gender critical.”

“I am utterly enraged when I see middle aged men who have built their career whilst married to a woman who supports the life of the family, claiming to be women and getting plaudits for their extraordinary “career achievements” as women. It makes my blood boil with anger and refusal to recognise women’s experience of juggling caring for family and work. And yet when I have shared my thoughts, other middle aged men have suggested I am transphobic or a “bigot”. It is infuriating and it frightens me how willingly people will ignore women’s experiences.”

“I’ve already been fired from a yoga studio for writing about my views on social media. I now do other work and my boss knows my views and supports me, but I still teach yoga privately, and I am careful to keep my views about gender ideology secret from those clients, for fear of losing that work, as the yoga industry is very “woke”.”

“I work for a charity which supports women who have been subjected to men’s violence, we have chosen to reject gender identity ideology. Fighting this issue detracts energies away from things we could be doing to support women and develop our services. I am concerned that there will be an impact on funding as funders fall over themselves to be woke, especially those working for local authorities.”

“I’ve already highlighted my own position where I am unable to access resources to support my community work with women because of this trans gender ideology.”

“Too many women have been censured for their gender critical beliefs and the term *safe* has been misappropriated as means of denouncing women who do not believe in gender identity or who regard sex as more important. Women’s oppression has never been on the basis of women *identifying* as women, but on the biological reality of women and their reproductive ability. Women have fought long and hard for recognition of the ways that being born female impact the lives of women and most women only shortlists are based on the acceptance of the disadvantages faced by women in a world which is set up for and by men. To have men who identify as women usurp women on the basis of gender identity is sadly yet another example of men supporting men.”

“Unions adoption of and participation in this ideology is concerning, women are being undermined by the inclusion of men in women’s spaces/categories and do not have the backing of their unions. “

“I was dismissed for holding the belief males cannot be women. With the help of [employment lawyer] I took my employer, a national art gallery, to the Employment Tribunal. I got my job back and all back pay.”

“Luckily, because of the nature of my job [tutor] I don’t have to confront policy changes. But I am very concerned, especially about universities and schools, that seem to have swallowed an ideology that is not our national religion into their curriculum and thus influencing our young people. Those who dare to protest are swiftly outed on social media – who was it who said if you want an ideology to take over convince the children first? Also, tellingly, this is the first issue that I have had arguments with my teenage children about. We have always agreed on politics. I now do not bring it up because they refuse to listen when I say trans women are not women.””

“I’m not worried about losing my job, I’m already retired but I’m worried that the organization that I lead loses its funding.”

“Huge sociological changes are being forced on women. Accept gender and deny biological reality. Women are being threatened and silenced in academic institutions. Women report their careers are negatively impacted for not kow towing to the gender ideology. There is no support.”

“It is the chilling effect that the bullying has had as well. It’s tricky trying to work out who might be an ally, when you know that saying ‘the wrong thing’ (or the right thing, or even just asking a question) can get you labelled, asked to leave a staff group, left out of events, no longer considered for work etc.”

“I am lucky as despite being at a University all my close colleagues are onside. Other departments are clearly far more vulnerable to this insidious ideology taking hold. I have one colleague with pronouns in the bio. Behind his back people think he is an idiot for it. But compulsory pronouns will be coming. I will leave my job before I demean myself with using them. That or I will go on Tumblr and make some up.”

“I hate seeing this creeping in at work. I feel powerless to stop it.”

“I am lucky to work for a feminist organisation that does not adhere to gender ideology but in the past have been very scared to raise this issue in work.”

“I am retired so some of these questions do not apply to me. If I were still working, the answer to those questions I have not responded to would be ‘a great deal’ I feel, in response to question 51, that it would be a woman’s choice whether to administer personal care to a male client. Obviously, if a woman were not given this choice, I would be deeply concerned.”

“Q47 – I could answer yes and no. Yes I’m afraid to talk to managers about my GC views. But I do talk to colleagues that I’ve worked with for years, and some emphatically do not agree with me.”

“Women have to work twice as hard to get recognised and the fact men can just self identify into being a woman has now meant high positions and award’s etc will just go to these men so women will no longer be able to go above a certain level.”

“Men running rape shelters should be sacked immediately.”

“Time that all employers were made to adhere to the EQA single sex exemptions without fail and absolutely not allowing the gender crap to infiltrate.”

“Women are being driven out of jobs by bullying from trans rights activists. I am beyond words with rage.”

“I am only able to talk about my views in gender identity politics at work with people I trust and who I have become aware of having similar views. At present I do not feel able to challenge some of the capture by identity politics by the organisation I work for in a formal way. I don’t think a lot of colleagues and management have an awareness of this issue.”

“I am also concerned that the pay gap will be hidden via poor data through sex not being recorded properly.”

“I am employed on a project by project basis but I absolutely dread being asked to put my pronouns on an email signature. I fear being blacklisted having already lost my US agent for my views. I actually haven’t worked all year and in paranoid moments wonder if prospective employers have already picked up on the grapevine that I’m GC and discriminated against me because of it. An academic friend at Birkbeck university told me her fellow colleague had openly opposed another academic’s inclusion on a project because she had supported Kathleen Stock. People on the other side can suggest the cancellation or blacklisting of GC people without fear of judgement it seems.”

“As a student in HE it is nearly impossible to approach this subject, even in an environment where gender is being discussed in even a remotely critical way. There is only one view point being presented as legitimate.”

“The NHS is increasingly becoming an unsafe space for women with GC beliefs with the erasure of single sex wards and women’s words being replaced with dehumanising terms.”

“The latest dreadful example was the FCA consultation that had been thoroughly captured by Stonewall. 40% women on boards, including those who self-identify as women.”

“This is a huge area of concern for me. This week, Kathleen Stock has resigned, in essence having been bullied and harassed out of her position for her views on gender identity. I have been self-employed for a few years now and work in the diversity and inclusion field – it has become a nightmare to hold any views other than the new orthodoxy on gender ideology. I have stepped out of collaborations with others because I cannot be true to myself.”

“I believe so Many women feel unsafe at work if they are gender critical.”

“Women have already lost a great deal through this ideology. We can’t always see it. I do speak about it with great caution but I don’t know whether I may have lost out on opportunities as a result.”

“I won’t face the sack for my views as I’m self employed. My views aren’t apparent in my working life (I sell antiques so gender doesn’t come up in conversation). However, I *am* concerned about this happening to other women.”

“My last paid job (in politics) was very uncomfortable as my immediate manager was very passionately pro trans rights. To the extent that she engaged in Terf hunting and would discuss this openly in the office. Presumably assuming that everyone felt the same. My partner has been put through a workplace disciplinary for expressing gender critical views on his own private Facebook page. Luckily he had good union representation and it didn’t go any further. We later learned that there had been a concerted campaign against him by TRAs and his manager received multiple complaints about him per week for a period of months. I volunteer for a left wing activist project. Even though the org doesn’t deal with issues of gender or sexuality and has no women’s only space. I’m still aware that “comrades” may seek to victimise me within the organisation. I’m open about my views. But I am incredibly careful to phrase everything as respectfully as I possibly can. And I feel I have to let a lot of hurtful comments slide, for the sake of taking the high ground and appearing “reasonable”. It is exhausting.”

“Women are expected to join in their very own erasure. This is distressing and wrong”. 

“I completed my undergraduate studies at an extremely left-wing London university and was required to participate in consent workshops (which I’m all for) in order to enrol. However, these workshops and even in seminars you are pressured to state your pronouns when introducing yourself – something that I believe to be a waste of my time since I am clearly a female. I also did some work in the Civil Service and the same thing is happening there – pronouns in email signatures are encouraged, something I didn’t feel the need to state but felt somewhat judged by my colleagues (mostly the younger ones) for not participating in.”

“Q48. Are you concerned about the possibility of being sacked from a job or threatened with being sacked? Because of my GC views – not at the moment, because of COVID or something else – a little.”

“I have recently retired from child protection social work. (CAFCASS – children’s Guardian). Given this before I left I felt more able to talk about my GC views. A colleague and I prepared a workshop for our colleagues on trans issues discussing the impact on children. It was very well received and praised by line management. It went up to higher management with a view to be rolled out nationally. The diversity rep, a trans man took issue with it and it was binned. CAFCASS have since hooked up with stonewall and are on the pronoun bandwagon.”

“Women are being silenced as we speak and we need to stop it. Women’s voices will become irrelevant if we don’t and our women only services will be shaped by men in dresses. Already happened with Edinburgh CEO.”

“The FCA deciding to record equality statistics regarding women on the basis of belief in “gender” rather than sex is a dereliction of duty to record sex. I am so tried. Women’s needs, rights and ability to oppose these discriminatory practices and policies are being disregarded, demolished and destroyed, while the government, parliament, politicians and the courts refuse to intervene. Women are being structurally abused, as a class, and it is being framed by many as something to celebrate.”

“Women’s employment has been historically precarious, gender ideology only makes it even more so, regardless if women are compliant with the gender identity nonsense or not. If women do not agree, they risk being sacked or find difficulty in getting a paid job. If women agree, they still have less chance of getting a job or losing it for the sake of making room for the “most marginalised”, either way, women lose. Also, women who are providers or users of women-only services are at higher risk of violence. Personally, I have put on indefinite hold (12 months so far) a much needed women-only service because I am worried that I will struggle with funding and legal matters if I refuse to accept males, either as workers, or service users. I have delayed my job hunt as a result of direct harassment, and I am concerned that potential employers learn from my views and share my details with others, further restricting my employability. I also feel unable to apply to places where I am contending against self-id’d individuals, even if I get the job, there might be mixed-sex facilities I would have to share (e.g. office toilets). Also, if they are recording only ‘gender identity’ and not ‘sex’, in the application, it makes me suspicious, as there wouldn’t be a way to challenge them legally for discrimination on the basis of sex.”

“It looks as if I cannot answer the above because I am now retired though my answer is a great deal for all of them from the time I was employed. I am not employed now but definitely no platformed and have been for many years for my views on tg. I am also no platformed from ‘gender critical’ events because seen as too radical in my views i.e. no men can become women and transvestism in general is insulting to women and has to stop.”

“I am not threatened by this by professional colleagues at present. I am however under pressure from certain parent groups and certain pupils who believe that they are trans or non-binary.”

“It’s so obviously misogynistic.”

“Self censorship through fear of being sacked is very real and stressful and means truth becomes a lie and lies become truth.”

“In healthcare and in research sex matters. If we don’t record sex this leads to health inequalities, and trans folk are those who will be impacted most.”

“It’s happening A LOT. Public and private institutions are already sacking, silencing and bullying gc women.”

“Again, I feel less concern at work due to case precedence other women have fought and are fighting. My work is very woke and I try to speak up where I can to give balance. My work is very woke, but have not yet forced pronoun usage.”

“I’m self employed, I can choose my clients, but I know that not everyone is in this situation and have to be careful about what they say or do for fear of repercussions. Just when women were beginning to make their voices heard, men have found a new way to shut us up.”

“I am particularly concerned about sex equality data (e.g. on sex discrimination and pay) being obfuscated by the inclusion of trans-identified males. I was horrified to see a prestigious award recently go to a transgender woman in the US who was lauded as the first “female” to win the accolade.”

“I’m braver now than I have been and feel like some progress is occurring but it is exhausting swimming against the gender woo tide. Still I can’t not do what I can.”

“I am very concerned about a relative who is an early career academic. She has to go along with this or she will not be able to research or get a job.”

“I feel afraid to be honest at work. I’m forced to lie and profess something I strongly do not believe in.”

“This is impacting my work as a freelancer. During lockdown I became the breadwinner for my family- I had to silence myself for a time. I feel like I have to speak in tongues and avoid difficult issues. It is breaking me.” 

“In question 51 did you mean to say men providing intimate care to women? If so, my answer would have been the highest level of worry – above all for disabled, non verbal women, or those with dementia, or with religious backgrounds.”

“I once went to a women’s mental health group for support. Halfway through the session a man dressed as a woman came in – the group went quiet and he took over the space with his problem. I did not feel safe to share so did not go back. If female spaces are invaded by men and we are told they are ‘women’ because they say so, then we are stepping back to a time when we are compelled to withdraw from ourselves and will lose the support we find in all female groups. I really don’t care if a man wants to wear a dress and live as a woman if that’s what he wants. But he will always be a man. I am not happy for that man in a dress to be in woman only spaces, toilets, rape crisis centres, women’s refuges, women’s prisons, should all be female only. Transwomen are men.”

“I can assert my views at work in anonymous surveys. Remain uncertain of the consequences of speaking up under my own name, and gender identity ideology has been fully embedded into all corporate documents and surveys. I think the Forstater ruling gives me more confidence in stating my views in work forums where appropriate, since I know it’s not lawful to discriminate against me for those views.”

“I work in the Humanities in academia where this is a particular problem. While there are 

some professional spaces I feel I can speak freely, I have to be careful and frequently self-censor. It definitely affects funding bids, the peer review process etc.

“At work my trusted colleagues know my views. I am in the worker’s council (in Spain) which makes it hard for the company to dismiss me so I am subtly pushing for initiatives around “gender equality” to be clearly defined or better, renamed to specify “sex equality”. I will also advocate if the time comes against compulsory pronouns. I think the main HR person agrees with my views and many colleagues have told me the same privately. I am also careful with this as I have a duty also to represent colleagues who don’t share my views, but I have a gender ideologist colleague on the committee so I will try to work with him to ensure everyone is represented. I also make sure all my arguments are directly related to advocating for women and don’t raise topics unrelated to work (e.g. childhood transition, prisons etc.). The company is a big international run from US but so far their promotion of pronouns etc., seems to be a tick box exercise rather than something leadership really believes in. None of the leadership team include pronouns. I think it helps that the company is present in 50 countries so they need to be culturally sensitive.”

“I work in a university and almost weekly the internal newsletter has Trans awareness propaganda but rarely about women, race, agism, classism. Most of my colleagues have pronouns in their signatures despite most of them being straight married women with their own biological kids… it’s lunacy for them to say they are “they them or even “she her”. Why does it need to be declared?! Even my workplace’s women’s network has a paragraph on trans inclusivity on the intranet. The group is there to talk about gender pay gap, research etc. yet they openly include men!! Madness.”

“Q51. No woman should be forced to touch a man if she doesn’t want to. 52. Nothing is more invasive than forcing people to say what you want them to; it’s like coercion. When an abuser says: “say you Love me!” when you don’t. It has lasting, psychologically scarring effects. 54. I can’t think of anything more offensive, wtf, Caitlyn Jenner? Hubbard? “Claire” G. Coleman? What’s the point in having women’s awards if they’re not FOR women?”

“Can’t defend women at work without getting reported => severely punished in the military.”

“On 52, I’m concerned only moderately because I just won’t do it if I’m uncomfortable doing so, and I know my employer can’t force me to.”

“Many schools – including mine – have made gender ideology part of the sexual harassment policy. While, of course, no one deserves to be sexually harassed, asserting my views on gender is NOT the same as sexual harassment and should not warrant a potential expulsion or suspension from school.“

“I feel like there’s no real place for me in academia anymore as a lesbian. There never really was, but I look at the contributions of other lesbians in the past and feel like it’s just not possible now.”

“They are asking people to LIE. They are asking people to buy into a DELUSION. They are asking women to risk their safety and mental health by worrying if the women they are dealing with (patient, client, prisoner, doctor) may really be a man, or if they say the wrong thing they may lose their job. Women are not stupid. We understand the real threats of violence from men, and we should not be subjected to the level of gaslighting that is present in all workplace environments.”

“I’m self employed so perhaps easier for me but self censoring all the time is so dull and throws me into incongruity.”

“I have had to withdraw from training as a therapist bc I will not accept an affirmative model of therapy re GI. I cannot get a volunteer placement or a job.

“I’m a self employed artist partly dependent on publicly funded spaces to show my work. These are not available to me any more because I’m marked as “TERF” and subject to surveillance, in effect, from an organisation called TERFs Out of Art.”

“I should be able to speak about my concerns around how abusive men may use the opportunity to get into women’s only spaces but that isn’t seen as okay in my workplace.”

“I believe I’ve lost the trust of some clients because of some people sent something I wrote in social media that was taken out of its context. It was my favourite client.”

“Women are now silenced at work and feeling like they can’t enter specific professional organisations because of their views and experience. We constantly walk a tightrope of not being prepared to admire the Emperor’s clothes.”

“The witch hunt in academia is terrifying and reminiscent of mazy times.

“’Concerned’ is the wrong word – ‘Incensed’ is more accurate. I am now retired, so some of this does not affect me directly – but I will fight for those whose career are being wrecked by this.”

“I am very lucky, as I work somewhere that it’s OK to disagree with others about this, but my answers would’ve been stronger if that wasn’t the case.”

“Regarding Q 46, I retired before gender ideology really took hold, but if I was still working for the same organisation, I’d be subjected to attempts to force pronoun usage and validation of the belief of others in gender ideology. I’m not compelled to believe in anyone else’s religions or other beliefs. I’m outraged at thinking I would have had to comply with a completely nonsensical ideology that flies in the face of science and reality. The bald-faced misogyny in bullying of personal care providers is disgusting. The attacks on free speech and academic freedom, and the complicit behaviour by other academics who would rather sell out on women (particularly lesbians) and academic freedom rather than make a stand tells me that universities are no longer bastions of independent thought. Universities like Sussex University would be better off going into sheep farming, I think, because the academics there who have attacked or failed to support Kathleen Stock have shown they are certainly not up to the main responsibility of the academy. Women’s services, elected positions, spaces, sport do not belong to anyone who is a biological male for very self-evident reasons.  Gender ideology has no place in public policy or in any of the places listed in Q 55. Why should it? It’s an ideology, not reality.” 

“The policy capture is unbelievably wide ranging and pervasive. Doesn’t affect me personally as I’m retired.”

“I run my own business so it isn’t so much being sacked as it affecting my business – particularly on social media.”

“I object to men taking women’s places on boards, in employment and All-Women Shortlists. They cannot represent women.”

“A great deal of harm is being done to individuals who are being persecuted but it’s also a warning message being sent to a much wider group so the harm is widespread.”

“As far as I am aware, no man has ever been no-platformed, censured, or received rape threats for holding gender critical views. It is complete and utter misogyny.”

“Commissioners in domestic abuse services wield much power. Therefore if they subscribe to the gender ideology you cannot be open about your views. Very concerning as contracts rarely outlast 3 years and you’re in a constant loop of re tendering.”

“Women are under-represented in many professions not only the basis of how we feel, but on the basis of the material reality of sex. Potential or active Pregnancy, maternity leave, childcare requirements, menopause (where 1 in 8 women is forced to give up work) are all directly linked to our sex and are all reasons discrimination exists. It is entirely inappropriate to pretend otherwise. I am also concerned that using the new meaning of gender in place of sex further exacerbates this, skewing figures making them worthless but also further eradicating women from the workplace.”

“I am sickened that I have to fill in forms in higher education about ‘gender’ and about my ‘sexual identification’ now. I had to ask what sexual identification was – had never heard of it. It’s whether I identify as male or female. I told them, neither, because I don’t ‘identify’ as a woman, I AM one. I am forced to go along with this ideology by the form layout. Even though, I have taught stuff counter to all this.”

“I’m a home healthcare provider. If I were to take on a new client, I would be very nervous. In the past I’ve only had female clients, but we’re no longer allowed to specify by sex. I do not want my new status of “only women clients” mean I have to accept a male who self IDs as a woman. Much of my job is personal care… meaning the client is undressed for bathing, changing clothes, or toiletry.”

“Female academics in particular are being attacked, harassed and discredited if they write or even speak up on these issues. Universities and academic unions are NOT standing up for their rights.”

“Universities are the worst for sexual assault yet they are the most driven with gender ideology, they can’t keep doing this.”

“GI politics is stopping open debate. It’s blocking research based in sex. I’m concerned that a man can rape a woman and call himself a woman and the victim then has to deny her reality. How did the police get to implement such an inaccurate reporting policy. That is register sex crimes committed by biological men as crimes committed by women. This is so wrong as distorts reality.”

“I can talk to work mates but need to be careful not to put anything in writing.”

“Women’s opportunities are for women, not men with a sexual fetish.”

“What’s happening in universities is terrifying.”

“If my gender critical views were made public I would lose my position.”

“We cannot allow biological sex to be denied and there should never be any acceptance of TWAW. The potential impact on women’s lives and careers is too great.”

“As an academic I hold huge concerns about being unable to speak freely.”

“As a recent student, I felt intimidated within the university by the transideology which did not permit me to speak freely. I self excluded from all student union events due to the ideology represented on campus and online by the students union. It was an exclusive entity which catered overtly for LGBTQ not heterosexual students.”

“Greatly admire the women speaking out publicly at great personal risk.”

“Women’s shortlists, female only jobs, etc. were created to (a) reverse underrepresentation due to sexism, (b) protect vulnerable women from predatory males, etc. For any of those to be given over to males claiming to be female is misogynistic. I need to challenge GI in things coming from higher up the food chain in my work, but I worry that I will leave myself vulnerable to be forced out of my job. I cannot afford to lose my job.”

“Women in general are much more likely to have their work stolen (especially in academia). We need full childcare in professional spaces if we are ever to have gender parity in the workforce.” 

“It is terrifying. This is a terrifying time for women. Women are still disproportionately victims of male violence and oppression and yet if we define ourselves, speak out, organise we are threatened with rape or death, sacked, de platformed, silenced, shunned.”

“In the professional context, women being instructed to comply with male inclusion suppresses women’s necessity for advancement as women, and to develop standards and opportunities for other women.”

“In my opinion, gender ideology is nothing less than putting a new face on the deep-rooted misogyny that permeates the culture.”

“I have tried to speak up in work to allow women to have single-sex psychiatric wards and the Hate Crime Bill was mentioned when I did this. Many of my female patients have experienced extreme male violence and would not be able to share sleeping accommodation with trans-identified males due to trauma.”

“It is very concerning that women cannot have sensible conversations around this topic for fear of losing their jobs.”

“Women have only recently begun to gain equal status to men in the workplace. It’s unbearable to think my daughter may lose opportunities because men claim to be women.”

“Women are being deprived of opportunities and safeguards by men pretending to be women.”

“We are headed for a totalitarian regime where women are subjugated to an inferior position and men silence us if we try to challenge this! It’s extremely frightening and my professional life is at risk because of attacks from trans activists.”

“I was dissuaded from discussing women or feminism within academic research during a post graduate course. The area of research has been accepted and validated at the time of applying for the course. They did not state why they had changed their views so I cannot know if it was due to political trans ideology.” 

“Kathleen Stock! Reading the pamphlet issued by the student union in Cambridge yesterday also made me angry. I’ve always voted Labour but the party’s lack of respect for women’s rights has driven me away. Women are far from achieving parity in the work place. Trans ideology is rooted in misogyny.”

“At my daughter’s uni, there are signs in the ladies loo saying if you think someone isn’t a woman, to mind your own business. I am concerned this impinges on my daughter’s safety. On the one hand we say be wary of males trying to drug your drink, but if you see an obvious male in the ladies loo you should smile and say welcome? This reinforces the idea that women and girls must be polite and not speak up if they’re uncomfortable or feel at risk.”

“As before, I have been corrected at training events for my gender critical language (i.e. using the word woman and mother) and have been excluded from client directory for my beliefs.”

“Q51 – Many male clients already receive care from women, as the risk of abuse or trauma from male carers is an issue, even without considering trans issues. Plus, most carers are female. The question of consent is what matters most, here.”

“Aware of this at work, but wfh for 1.5yrs re Covid and avoided a lot. Hate seeing pronouns in some email signatures. New offices have gender neutral toilets, which no woman uses.”

“I would like to have these spaces, which had only just opened, to be for women only once again.”

“I am retired but alarmed at how people are being compelled into silence and supporting an ideology they really disagree with. This is not equality, it is bullying.”

“Women won these spaces for a reason. These reasons have not went away. In the UK every week 1 sexual assault occurs in schools. The highest offenders are male the highest victim is female.”

“I own and run my own business so I have no worries at work. I do worry about gender identity in public, professional, educational, political, judicial, police, custodial and medical roles.”

“WRT Question 51 – only if the women are being told to view the male clients as women. I’ve no problem administering personal care to a male body but that should be my choice.”

“I’m fortunate that we are all GC in my workplace and it is safe for me to discuss in my own professional life. However, I have a daughter who works in a very “inclusive” sector and my views if they were known could impact on her career very significantly. Therefore I have to stay below the radar and avoid stating my beliefs openly. I do not like this situation.”

“As stated I work with teenagers and would be sacked for my views as I work in a Stonewall Champion establishment.”

“I don’t work, so can’t answer some of these. But I find the treatment Kathleen Stock and Maya Forstarter and others have received utterly terrifying. We may not live in a police state according to our laws but women might as well do within the work place it seems.”

“Although gender identity politics has not yet had a large practical impact on my professional life, it has the potential to do so. I work in academia and am not “out” at work as GC except to a very small number of trusted colleagues with similar views. I worry a lot what would happen if my views became more widely known.”

“I ticked that I am moderately concerned about women administering personal care to men – I have worked in a nursing home in the past and done this. I would add the following – with the expressed consent of the client who knew my biological sex AND consent knowing his biological sex AND appropriate safeguarding in place for both client and service provider. This also works the other way around – consent and safeguards in place. I don’t want a man doing a smear test for example – my choice. If a male doctor needs to examine me with out clothes, I want a nurse there as a chaperone. Also depends on power at hand – the fear of saying no. These should be dealt with sensitively so the client does not have to be asked. Often socialisation of women means we can’t say no, even when we want to.”

“I work with women victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault. I feel strongly that these women should be allowed women only safe spaces and services. Women are being hounded out of professional roles and public life for being women. This is misogyny. We rarely hear of males voicing similar views being treated like this.”

“I am afraid that women will lose representation in positions of power.”

“I do not believe in gender identity. I am aghast at my employer’s stonewall membership and the subsequent push to embed their views and policies.”

“I’m not in full time paid employment, but I’m really concerned for women at work. Academia has become really difficult for GC women, with some needing bodyguards, police protection etc., while those who threaten violence getting away with it. It has huge implications for academia, particularly for younger academics, as they are often on insecure work contracts and many daren’t speak out for fear of reprisals. It shuts down the reasoned debate and questioning that academia is supposed to facilitate. It has also become an issue in politics, with many in the Labour Party, particularly at the top, capitulating to ‘trans’ demands without question, and then trying to shut down debate. This all impacts on women’s employment and freedom at work, as well as their safety.”

“What I said before about not getting jobs due to GC views – views which were mainstream years ago. How has it come to this-where single sex services have to bend over backwards to include men & women have to shut up or leave (as if “bigots”) if uncomfortable. I completely disagree with male voices answering helplines in what are meant to be single sex spaces. Having staff who are clearly not women when says women only is gaslighting often the most vulnerable women (or women who are vulnerable due to recent life events) in society. I am genuinely frightened about men (in Police, prison estate) having powers to strip search women because say they are women but even psychological damage-telling women who’ve experienced lifetime abuse at hands of men that their counsellor or cell mate or HCP is a woman is psychological torture.”

“This is a mass attempt to shut women up professionally and in the public sphere and shunt them back off to the home.”

“All the good work of feminist over the years is being swept aside. I am furious.”

“Union Women’s officer position held by a trans woman. They can be trans women’s officer for trans people but not to speak for women born women and their experiences.”

“I’m bothered by the UN refusing to define women; how can we then solve women issues?”

“I am a women in STEM at a college. This ideology has been forced upon me. I hate it but speaking up would make me a target. I don’t have tenure yet.”

“As a retired professional now volunteer have turned down work when told to use pronouns. Am disabled.”

“We have our safe, protected laws for bio women for a reason and this is just ruining it.”

“I’m really more concerned that we may see the laws changed to prevent businesses and organizations from being allowed to recognize and provide services on the basis of sex.”

“I personally think the majority of people do not want to cater to gender extremism, most of this is coming from corporate influence. Corporate indicating the government is involved in some way.”

“I am required to use they/them pronouns when referring to any customers in my retail job, as well as required to wear my pronouns on my nametag.”

“I work in a small business that is almost fully female. We all share the same gender critical views openly and it is a true female safe space.”

“I feel very lucky to be able to freely share my views and concerns about gender identity at my workplace. I know this isn’t typically the case. I would be disinclined to pursue a position with an organisation which supported gender ideology or pushed the sharing of personal pronouns because I would feel unable to share my own position. I think this limits opportunities for me going forward.” 

“Women’s rights and equal opportunities have been set back hundreds of years.”

“I would not support my children attending university at this stage due to the culture on campus.”

“Women fought hard to obtain opportunities and institutions specifically for them. Now, with the stroke of a pen, men get to take these too.”

“Never in my life have I feared to speak my mind at work. The fact that I cannot say what I think about gender identity at work is really scary. It makes me sick to my stomach. They introduced a new gender identity training this year, but no one dares question anything. I live in one of the so-called “progressive” areas in the world, but free speech doesn’t apply to this. It is outrageous.”

“Our company has programmes to encourage, develop and support female leaders as part of their diversity commitments. A trans employee has suggested rebranding to be gender neutral. I’m concerned about the loss of measures needed to support sex equality in the workplace. Ditto the effect on comparators for legal cases of sex discrimination in the workplace – as yet untested but could undermine women’s workplace protections.”

“I’m 66, thus, a pensioner. I’d like to find a part-time job, but I’d never get past the LGBTQ+ training, I’m afraid and could not stand to use the same toilets at work as men. I find this all so insulting and repulsive for women. All work places should stop ALL of this gender stuff, all of it. It is abusive towards their employees and asking for pronouns is an invasion of everyone’s privacy and should never have been allowed. Truth MATTERS and I will never be forced to lie about someone’s true sex, nor share public toilets with them at work, thus, I am pretty much unemployable now.”

“Equality for woman in the work place has a long way to go and the potential to skew metrics of progress (and even regress progress) by including men who self identify as women without any GRC or intention to transition their sex is very real. If we are to measure natal women’s progress and separately trans women we would be better able to assess and identify and need for equity balancing via a process which adopts proportionality.”

“As an ex women’s aid worker I am appalled at the Scottish Government making funding dependent on the inclusion of trans identifying males. Women have fought to create these much needed safe spaces and SWA giving it away without consulting member groups or by consulting non-govt funded orgs is outrageous. The feminism of the original women who established local groups and set up refuges has been subsumed by women who have no commitment or feminist integrity but can parrot what the SG wants to hear.” 

“Very angry about “transwomen” taking away spaces created for the political representation of women.”

“I have seen the erasure of women and women-only places and ‘things’ (competitions, roles, categories etc.) first hand. I am no longer undertaking voluntary work as a result of this.”

“As a woman in tech in the wider area it is inundated with men and I see the whisperings of erasure creeping in from well meaning individuals for example a networking group I’m in is for female identifying users of a particular platform and it makes me cringe as women are underrepresented in technology and allowing anyone in defeats the object of the group.”

“I do not have good experiences with a trans woman in work spaces. He is aggressive and does not respect boundaries. Those in leadership roles go around him and he seems to be held to a far lower standard than others for both work and behaviour. I often feel uncomfortable with the clothing chosen for professional situations, often either sexualised or quite juvenile, like long socks and short skirts. A woman would be subject to harsh criticism for dressing this way.”

“As I am self-employed, I don’t have to worry about work-based policies on EDI. My clients tend to be conservative in nature, so I’ve not encountered any difficult situations in the workplace where I am expected to use wrong-sex pronouns. It does worry me: there are some jobs I know I couldn’t apply for as I would not be able to comply with requirements on gender, and I remain very alive to the real risk that being ‘outed’ for my legal and biological correct beliefs could see me lose clients. I am concerned that e.g. women’s officers in unions etc., can now be held by men: what do they know of what support women need? How can they possibly represent us if they are prioritising the rights of men? I’m worried about needing to have intimate female care at some point, and being gaslit that the hulking six-footer with the five o’clock shadow is a woman. I’m also worried about the wider impact on free speech and material reality that this ideology represents: if you can make the world say that sex isn’t real, then you have absolute control of the narrative. These are dark times.”

“I’m fortunate to work somewhere that is female dominated and we all feel the same. But I’m aware that could change.”

“Nervous about going back into education – I don’t feel safe.”

“I’m retired but am very concerned about women who are still working – including my own children and grandchildren. Funnily enough, men don’t seem to get sacked for their views.”

“It shows men were never reconciled to women in ‘their’ workplaces and are joining in with the assault on all fronts to push them out again: they can cancel you for ‘transphobia’ (speaking up for women), they can drive you out by removing toilets and changing rooms, they can undermine affirmative action such as prizes or grants for women by giving them to men masquerading as women. Soon it will be ‘transphobic’ simply to BE a woman.”

“Re women giving personal care to men- if those men are men then less so. If those are men LARPING as women, then yes, a great deal.”

“The reason I feel able to talk about gender issues at work is that I will not be cowed into silence.”

“Women are being punished for speaking the truth. Those in power are buying into the ideological lies and supporting men invading women’s spaces and the cancellation of women. This has to stop.”

“As a retired health professional I have been extremely perturbed by policies aggressively targeting patients who request same sex staff to give intimate care and/or same sex ward etc., (NHS GG&C) in my view this has been condoned by the Board which includes politicians most vocal about trans rights trumping women’s rights at all times.”

“In 2018 the New Zealand government set a target of 50% women on the boards of directors of public sector entities. Later that year Cabinet (with no announcement) changed the definition of women to include anyone who identifies as such. Supposedly the government met the 50% target this year, but how could we really know, given they changed the goalposts?”

“I worked for 12 years in a university and was anonymously accused of transphobia for simply stating I wouldn’t use pronouns on my emails, I received no support.”

“The reasons women needed both boundaries and opportunities still stand. Males still dominate the political, business and social landscape and women need positive discrimination to enable equal ops AND male violence especially sexual violence & abuse/forced & child marriage etc., are why women and girls (and in some cases boys too) still need safeguarding boundaries. When our trade unions and political parties are allowing males to stand for Women’s Officer positions I feel complete despair. Most of these males “identify as” but NEVER identify WITH we real women.”

“My hope is that if/when this nonsense moves out from behind the twittersphere, the mass of women will treat it with the derision and contempt it deserves, and it will disappear like spit on a griddle.”

“It’s unsafe to be “out” in most work places. And if your company has a social media policy you have to be careful, or anonymous there too. Many companies are ideologically captured, referring to Stonewall law instead of the Equality Act, taken in by the false promise of inclusivity when in fact all they are doing is prioritising and giving power to a tiny but very noisy minority. Everyone should feel safe & supported but that includes women. The worst everyday impact of this ideology is compelled speech & fake belief. It’s Orwellian.”

“I’m retired. And thank goodness. Thinking back at my place of work (a conservative insurance company) I would have been sanctioned and probably fired for speaking out. Treating everyone with respect does NOT mean forcing everyone down the path of gender ideology. In fact it means the opposite. Women’ have rights that are being ignored even though they are still the law. For now…”

“There is a TIF teaching at my school who is also in charge of “sexual diversity at school” which bothers me a lot. If a student who is questioning his or her identity ever talks to her, I am afraid the counselling will be very one-sided and possibly leading to more wrongdoing than helping. I don’t feel like I can safely voice my concerns, though.”

“I am in my mid-20s and giving university a second go at the moment. I really abhor seeing how much gender ideology rhetoric has been adopted as gospel in respected educational institutions and how students are becoming overly consumed with the importance of gender ideology over all other social justice issues.  I’ve witnessed it myself in class discussions. I’ve also seen students and student leaders using official university platforms to publicly complain about “TERFs” and try to get gc women speakers’ talks cancelled or brigaded.”

“I am lucky enough to work for a non-woke (thus far) organisation. That could change at any time however, and pressure needs to be sustained to bring this to heel for all those working in captured organisations and industries.”

“This gender movement is successfully doing to women with a respected voice what no amount of sexism in the last 50 years could have done.”

“Due to many institutions being male heavy @ the top, women do find it difficult to speak up anyway. With this gender ideology being pushed & promoted, it’s even more difficult now. Women are scared of being sidelined & sacked if they don’t go with this ideology.”

“Luckily, my work environment is a professional environment that does not center politics in the day-to-day work. I worry that if they hired someone that was trans-identified I would be paranoid about losing my job due to misgendering or not holding the correct views.”

“These are nightmarish issues, leading me to a sense of disturbing disbelief: I see vehement emotions such as anger/hatred coming up.. and it is very stressful.”

“Trans identified men being legally considered women in workplaces, public life, etc., infuriates me. You don’t get to retire as a woman (to satisfy your fetish!) after living multiple years as a man.”

“Unions and employers often work together against women employees.”

“I described my situation in a previous note. The work I continue to do, my own research, has nothing to do with gender or sexuality, so I don’t fear for my own future funding, etc. But I know that the climate is so anti-GC that I will not put my own name on social media accounts; I would lay myself and my husband open to reprisals of some kind by our university and/or our colleagues. So far my university has not de-platformed any GC feminist speakers; should that happen in future, I would speak out in support of them and their right to free speech as academics. Academics ought to be criticised for spouting groundless, unoriginal, or incoherent assertions, not for undertaking and passing on well-reasoned, well-sourced research that just happens to be unpopular. Students are the real problem here: they are too young to know they don’t know anywhere near as much as they think they do.”

“Elderly ladies do not want male bodied people to perform personal care regardless of their identity. To indicate they are transphobic is disgusting. Women don’t want to be in mixed wards for a reason!”

“Institutional capture is almost universal – virtually all of the legislation that protects women as a sex class is being completely disregarded in the interests of “trans and non-binary inclusion”.

“It turns out the unions are the biggest bullies of all.”

“My supervisor was berated to the point of tears by my trans-identified female coworker because she said she was a lesbian, and when pressed about whether she would date a transwoman, said that she’s only attracted to cisgender women.”

“All the concerns listed above have already happened. Nothing is theoretical. Women are already losing places, speaking opportunities, awards, everything.”

“The head of Rape crisis in Edinburgh is a man who identifies as a woman in a job reserved for women. He is also a fully paid up member of the Stonewall theocratic understanding of gender. Women are excluding themselves from RC as a result of this. I think that probably sums up what I see as the rabbit hole nature of the Self ID stuff and the serious implications this has for women.”

“It’s the new way to burn witches at the stake. I am in awe of women who stand up and do it, who are fighting for their jobs and having to go to court. HIS-story is a litany of women being silenced by men, now these men hide under the woke blanket. There is the law, and there is the Stonewall law, and large institutions have signed up to the latter in order to retain popularity and funding streams, which is ridiculous. Women are losing their jobs and incomes for stating what is true, obvious, and accepted by human kind for the last million years.”

“The initial ruling in the Forstater case (UK) meant I did not feel able to take part in any public discussion of women’s rights to same sex spaces. I didn’t believe my employers would sack me but I was worried that some of my young, male hipster colleagues would complain, putting a nasty strain on a small company. Until the appeal hearing overturned the initial verdict I didn’t realise how much I felt my ability to speak freely had been curtailed. I’m very angry about it. We can’t reach a reasonable solution to this problem unless both sides can express their views.”

“I think that the trans gender movement is being used by men to steal women’s hard won positions of influence and educational opportunities and a majority of men just don’t care because nothing is being taken from them.” 

“Gender ideology is a very totalitarian belief system. Failure to comply can have devastating consequences. The fact that so many organisations and political parties are adopting it is truly terrifying. It feels like a race against time before it takes over everything and we no longer have the right in any sense to dissent from this belief. I can’t believe how in some universities and political parties that they now have men who think they are women as women’s officer. 

“I can only wonder what goes in the minds of the women who will hand those men our spaces back as if to say “have some of ours, we have loads!”

“I chose not to pursue a master’s in counselling because of this ideology, and I have to face being forced to teach this ideology or lose my employment. We are talking about a state imposed religion. We are talking about fascism, a fascism which affects mainly women and women’s livelihood and professional reputation- for standing up for women’s rights.”

“It’s absolutely crazy. Women matter. Sex matters. On one health form I wasn’t even asked for my sex. Just my ‘gender identity’ – how can that help anyone?”

“I was threatened with someone getting me fired for stating gc views on Twitter.” 

“I was involved in social worker education and professional development at a London Borough. I was made redundant 2 years ago just as the council was cementing its allegiance to trans ideology (they tried to discipline me). I’m glad I left, for my own sanity but God knows the impact on children who are subject to SW intervention.”

“I decided to leave the counselling organisation I was a counsellor at due to stress caused by speaking up against e.g., training by Mermaids. I have struggled to set myself up as self-employed due to mental health suffering and fear of being targeted. My areas of skills (counselling, women’s health) are saturated with gender identity propaganda making it difficult to find adequate support or professional bodies.”

“I am fortunate to work in an all female leadership team where views are shared openly and safeguarding of children comes first. I know this is not the case for everyone and my experiences could be very different in another workplace.”

“I feel betrayed by many hitherto women’s organisations.”

“Gender ideology has seeped into U.K. public institutions without any form of reference to women. Men who claim to be women are now evidence to pose the same threat to women as men in general. Their offending profiles dove tail with offending men in general and placing them in any women only service facility is highly risky for women and girls. Enabling such men to have access is criminal.” 

“In Germany a male politician (or even two?) officially entered the parliament as “woman”, taking a women’s list spot from a real woman.”

“In my country gender ideology is not present at work and you cannot fire someone for their opinions. Concerning personal care to men, it depends on the context, I guess. Can be OK in a medical context but not in a Yaniv-like case.”

“As a retired staff nurse, RN I feel people are being manipulated into the gender ideology. Women are afraid & have lost their jobs because of their GC beliefs. Personally, I would struggle if I were still working. Diversity was a popular area in 2018, when I retired, I hate to think how it is now.”

“Women are unable to speak up because the trans movement threatens our livelihoods if we make criticisms.”

“I am in constant fear of losing my job if I slip up and say the wrong thing, I work for a local council and Stonewall champion.”

“I am just glad I’m retired and don’t have to deal with this crap, I would rather die than go along with it.”

“Employers ignore women and do not think to ask what women want. Change happens without consultation. Speaking up gets you labelled & disciplined on fake, vague charges. The workplace feels abusive. This triggers my PTSD. I can no longer work in my profession as it is too stressful. I cannot be quiet when children & families are bullied & mistreated. I cannot forget over 25 years of knowledge, experience, wisdom for a baseless ideology.”

“Genderism has made women economic hostages to an inherently anti-female ideology.” 

“Need to go back to basics of second wave feminism to reassert core rights.”

“If I am told to use inaccurate pronouns for others or to announce my own, I will refuse. I will not comply with compelled speech, so will likely be sacked.”

“I find the pronoun policing and forced language retraumatises me.”

“My work records gender identity and no-one have even considered what this means or asked why. It’s insidious.”

“This affects women at every level – from women CEOs being replaced by ‘men’ to beauticians being told to wax male genitals to nurses telling female patients they are on a women’s only ward when clearly they are not. A lot of women’s jobs are at risk if they don’t accept the unacceptable.”

“Whilst I don’t agree with women shortlists there are some women only roles – women’s officer in a union or political party, workers at rape crisis, refuges, etc., which should be entirely and completely reserved for biological women. Data about women should be by sex not gender – gender pay gap, the census, medical data. Why are women having to pay to crowdfund for legal backing on these areas?”

“The government need to clarify the law in relation to freedom to recognise the reality of biology, freedom of belief and expression and academic freedom. Women are becoming a group of second class citizens at constant risk of detriment for belief in basic science. This is male terrorism.”

“The capture is horrendous. It’s also a first step into normalizing “transhumanism” [dehumanism!] which should scare us all.”

“The need to use pronouns is giving disproportionate power to those with narcissistic traits.”

“This is already happening self iding men claiming to be women to become women’s officers and taking women’s jobs see, RCS! Where a man with no GRC and admits not having one. And three north Lanarkshire women’s aid has been stripped of funding for not allowing self iding men in.”

“I don’t go to my Labour party or union branch meetings as I am scared I’d be vilified if I expressed my views. My work EDI monitoring forms are all wrong, sex isn’t mentioned, but we have gender identity AND gender self identity. They’re clowns with no knowledge of EA2010 but get trans training (work part time and managed to dodge it). I’ve not done anything to correct it. We’ve seen what’s happened to academics like Shereen Benjamin, Profs Stock, Todd and Freedman and to Allison Bailey and other in public life like Jo Cherry and Rosie Duffield. The genderist movement is designed to get women out of public life by any means necessary, starting with the outspoken heretics, which also acts to keep others in line for fear of reprisals if they don’t kow tow. Women are hated, deeply hated and held in contempt across the globe, by governments and agencies of whatever political hue.”

“My job doesn’t involve providing personal care, communal changing rooms or referring to single sex services and so I am not concerned about conflict of professional responsibilities in “affirming gender identities” but I am concerned about people, including trans people, taking offence when being asked to state their gender. I deleted my LinkedIn when I came out as gender critical, despite having a locked twitter account. Shortly afterwards, my Instagram account was hacked and my Facebook account accessed. My employer rewrote their social media policy with warnings around causing offence and said “a private account will not [protect you.]””

“I am unable to make my views publicly known under my name for fear of consequences to my employment. I’m a doctoral student who teaches some seminars, and I worry about institutional capture and whether my union would defend me if I were to be accused by a student of transphobia for online comments linked back to me, regardless of my professional conduct at work (I always use preferred pronouns and names.)”

“I’m a young lesbian just starting out her career. I have deliberately chosen not to pursue certain careers because I knew that I would be more vulnerable to social media blow-ups due to my opinions. Even despite that, my fear of professional repercussions at this early stage keeps me from being public with my feminist beliefs.” 

“I answered a little to the women administering personal care to men as I have previous experience of this in a role I was paid to do as a carer. I didn’t like having to do this but no men were available to help the male clients at that time so although neither they nor I were comfortable, their needs came first as vulnerable adults.”

“I work in public sector so I can say little at work. I see creeping pronoun use, but not much else. Interestingly, I was trained on protected characteristics before lockdown and the trainer used Gender for Sex. I corrected her, as I figured I have plausible deniability if challenged. I then mentioned the confusion in the follow up survey.”

“The HR diversity agenda has been completely captured. Big business are using this as a smokescreen to control employees and employees don’t see the manipulation as business is concerned only about the bottom line. Young people think it’s a cuddly inclusive organisation until they’re let go!”

“Regarding Q47, I ticked “yes” because I have occasionally expressed my views at work. I don’t speak about it freely, however. I feel that question would benefit from more possibilities. I should also add that I live in a country where self-ID is law and misgendering is a crime, but where queer theory and gender identity ideology seems to have less of a hold than it has in the UK or US.”

“At root there’s misogyny at work here. The acceptance or belief that women can operate in certain workplaces or can do particular roles is skin deep. The current furores are used as a cover to destabilise women’s participation in certain arenas.”

“The secrecy around who is in bed with stonewall as a diversity champion, etc., and therefore which organisations have swallowed regarding the bitter pill of gender identity, is chilling. Once the pill is taken it is hard for anyone who questions the ideology to survive within the organisation.”

“It puts me off encouraging my daughter to go to university.”

“Women have had to fight for everything, always, all the time, and now this is the fight of our lives to even affirm that we are females and that males cannot be females, and take our funding, our literary fiction or STEM awards, our Women in Business awards, our bathrooms at work.” 

“Women are slowly losing everything we have fought so hard for.”

“I left my job because of this. Money is tight but I couldn’t stay there.”

“What started by stealth has not received the same scrutiny as any other movement, this is very dangerous. Using human rights, and oppression for self serving purpose.”

“I left Labour party because of self id and male women’s officers.”

“These things are patriarchy & misogyny in action. Transgenderism is deeply Misogynistic & abusive. It’s designed to remove women from the public sphere.”

“I am worried about the erasure of the word woman as a midwife I cannot allow this to happen.”

“I work in science and see attempts to redress the balance for women in STEM has been appropriated by cross-dressing men, just as women were starting to be treated equally.” 

“I am an academic. I was defamed and ridiculed by my union (UCU) for saying that sex matters in law and politically. Our seminar on child transition was cancelled. I have been silenced. I am afraid of losing my job if I am too open about my views.”

“Q51. Are you concerned about women administering personal care to male clients?” – I’m more concerned about men (male bodied people) administering personal care to women.”

“I was not given a permanent contract at a university also because of my views.”

“Women are losing positions to trans identifying men. It is setting women back.”

“I am unhappy with new RSHP [Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood] programme and with TIE [Time for Inclusive Education] in Scotland.”

“Gender Ideologues are threatening free speech, open debate, fact based discussions.  It needs to be addressed.”

“I am incredibly concerned about the appointment of a male as CEO of a rape crisis service and the move towards gender neutral services for domestic abuse as many women will self exclude. If I was in need of these services and there were males employed I would probably self exclude.”

“I’m against positions reserved for anyone based on sex, race, disability etc. But if there are positions reserved for women, they should only be filled by females.”

“Women should be allowed to speak. We have been silent for centuries and now we need to be heard.”

“Women cannot speak about our beliefs. Despite a lifetime of education. My employer is Stonewall compliant straight people are “queer” and gay people are hiding their sexuality unless already married or attached. I can cope with a few people having preferred pronouns, I imagine but what happens when it’s everyone? I won’t remember them. Speaking out is a disciplinary matter. Nobody dares speak at work. Women are terrified. They have seen what has happened to BBC reporting, at universities, the Labour conference, Edinburgh Rape Crisis. We have watched it all in horror. We see what they all think of us, these people in charge. We have seen women called names by BBC, the NHS call us demeaning names, but call men, men. I have watched politicians deny women as a sex have rights. I watched as a judge ruled it legal for men to rape women in prisons. Caged women, forced to be caged with male sex offenders, being viciously raped. Its legal because women don’t matter. A third of those women are in prison for not paying council tax. Being raped. RAPED. You couldn’t make this up. I don’t want to live in a society that thinks this is just or fair. Those poor women. All because a known sex offender feels like a woman. I’m sorry but why do the feelings of male sex offenders and paedophiles, matter more than the feelings of women who didn’t pay a bill? Is this real life? Why isn’t an adult stepping in?”

“I am in the fortunate position of being self-employed but I have already lost some work as I have refused to do pronouns.”

“I simply cannot talk about this in the civil service. The stonewalling of my area makes me feel uncomfortable.”

“Sex is protected and needs to remain so.”

“Part of my work is engagement and recently this has focussed on working solely with women which resulted in a complaint being submitted to my HR director about me advertising focus groups for women only which in the view of the complainant made me transphobic. Thankfully my manager had my back and fully supports the need for some groups to be women only but it is enough to make me afraid now that I’ve been identified once.”

“I am retired, so could not answer some questions. If I was still in work I would be very worried about all of it.”

“Just look at Professor Stock situation it beggars belief and I think there must be some way for reason and truth to win out. Women should just speak their truth surely.”

“The absolute repression and silencing of women, feminists in particular in this debate is shocking. The sheer viciousness of the hunting down of women and trying to get them out of their jobs is unprecedented in my experience of a lifetime of activism. I’ve never known such misogyny and violence. The pressures on women are overwhelming.”

“I deleted my LinkedIn account because I was afraid my former friends would try to report me to my employer when I “came out” as gender critical. I constantly have to be careful what I say at work and am dreading what will happen if I’m ever asked to affirm something I strongly disagree with. I would have little support from seniors who have already made negative comments about JK Rowling.”

“I am concerned about the growth of the ‘industry’ around Equalities in general, and in particular GI. I believe much of the current toxic climate is down to a deep misunderstanding of what Equalities at work (in particular ‘inclusion’) means and involves. Increasingly, observing some of the outcomes of the work of organisations leading this kind of training, demonstrates either uneducated or cynical application to wring out mea culpas from people designated as ‘privileged’. In many of my dealings with people or philosophies that espouse GI, I now feel it necessary to ask for sources for what is being disseminated, or I try to follow the money.”

“I’m sick of it. I’m sick of having to hide.”

“It’s awful. I have been able to talk to three colleagues on the quiet; they are all firmly against transing children but it feels impossible to have an open conversation. I don’t think the extent of the rot is realised by many.” 

“Women worked so hard (are still working hard) to be accepted as human beings in our own right and it absolutely stinks to be told that, now we have these opportunities, we must share them with men pretending to be women. I’m sorry for the harsh language, but no self respecting man with gender dysphoria who *needs* to present as a woman to feel comfortable is taking these opportunities from women. They are all autogynephiles seeking validation or misogynist cheats. Those that support this “inclusion” should be so very ashamed and embarrassed that they can’t or won’t see it.” 

“Women in some professional spaces (IT, retail fashion admin, etc.) are increasingly expected to conform in speech and mannerisms to a stereotype of feminine behaviour. Women with naturally loud or alto voices, or those who speak in a direct manner are seen as overly masculine, and are often “encouraged” to “improve” how they communicate.”

“It’s appalling and totally not fair, not to say absolutely unbelievable that all the things mentioned in the last few questions are actually happening.”

“Women are underrepresented in influential positions. Handing over the few we have set aside to male people is worse than not having them in the first place.”

“I’m retired, so this impacts me much less personally but I am very concerned for other women, especially younger women who are trying to build a career, not feeling safe enough to be honest about their views.”

“It isn’t getting much traction in my work yet- lack of awareness. But a few days ago, a boss referred to women as “non-men”.”

“I have seen men who identify as “non binary” take up spaces on events designed to encourage women to consider some of the more male dominated roles in my place of work. I have declined training/advancement because of the presence of males who identify as “non binary” being in positions of power and who openly attack women on social media for not subscribing to gender identity viewpoints. I am afraid to speak openly about my views at work because of men who identify as “non binary” citing any ordinary discussion of the need for female privacy (toilets, etc.) as a form of bullying.”

“I’m from a STEM background, and increasingly see trans women heralded as role models to women, when they haven’t had to overcome the barriers of female socialisation. Universities adopting gender ideology is particularly worrying as they are teaching young people!”

“The company I work for has requested that we all update our profiles to state our Gender Identities and doesn’t give a N/A option, and our emails with Pronouns. Also we have ‘Genders’ not Sexes in official data. Currently it’s optional but I’m worried that it will become compulsory.” 

“At my previous employer, a local government in Australia, all this fuss was made about “bringing your whole self to work”. That was seen as an inclusive idea which allied itself with gender identity ideology.  But I could not bring my whole self to work there. I could not say out loud that men should not be winning our International Women’s Day award.  I could not say that the photo of a woman and a trans identified male that was presented as a lesbian couple is a straight couple.  I could not say that woman is not a costume.  If I had said any of these things in my time with that local council I would have been in serious, serious trouble.”

“The loss of professional spaces for women is another example of the way women are being forced to step aside in all areas of life. The fact that no one in authority appears to consider this unfair and even possibly dangerous in some instances makes me wonder what happened to the country I grew up in. I worry a lot what the future holds for children and women.”

“It is very difficult as work as my employer provides personal care, and employees only ‘identify as a gender’ not a sex at appointment- so patients could get either sex. The privacy of trans identified male staff is put before everyone else.”

“I’m lucky, but my sister has to bite her tongue all the time and it harms her mental well being to be forced to choose between providing for her family and her integrity.”

“Women have been let down by cowardly people at the top of institutions. I used to work for women’s aid. Men were always trying to get into the refuges. Why are people in power not looking at things critically. Why do they not know that 75-80% have AGP?”

“I am concerned about losing spaces to talk, I have no employer, so I cannot be sacked from a job, but I can be thrown out by civil society organisations and my political party.”

“I am hoping that the UK gov and Liz Truss influence put a stop to the Uni nonsense and cancel culture, bullying, idiots that claim they are triggered – expel them, they are exaggerating and creating victim status and no one can challenge it as – who can challenge a victim except that idiot that is in charge of Rape crisis Edinburgh – get that male out of there as soon as possible he is a man and has no place with vulnerable women.”

“I’m an author. You’d think the publishing world would be a bastion for free speech but I have no doubt that if my gender critical views were known then I could kiss goodbye to another publishing contract.”

“I am a SAHM so feel a little more freedom to speak. However, had I remained at previous employment (a charity), I would have been required to do training re gender ideology, state pronouns etc. I could not have complied so just wonder what would have happened.”

“Women are already disadvantaged. Allowing spaces reserved for women to be mixed sex removes all protections. Some people supporting this think that ‘gender neutral’ means that women will be treated equally. They are wrong.”

“I work for myself and so am luckily exempt from the madness of pronouns and the ABC soup of Stonewall madness in the workplace. At the same time, I have to be careful with my clients that I work for as they are big corporations and some are fully paid up members of Stonewall.”

“Please see previous text re: work. Also, while I’m able to discuss it in-person with a handful of people, a degree of ‘care’ needs to be taken. Right now, working from home (due to Covid), means I’ve managed to avoid most of the potential issues that might affect my work life (e.g. I do not have contact with the Trans-Identified man who works in my department).”

“I’m retired, but I would be very concerned about some of those issues if I were working. I’d be afraid to speak out. I’d hate to have to lie with pronouns at work. I refuse to use THEY as a singular pronoun — sure that would get me in trouble. I’ve heard even if one dodges using pronouns, that can result in accusations. Workers now are required to lie. I wouldn’t want to work with men in dresses either — they behave like men (aggressive and not team players and very quick to denounce one as transphobic if they notice avoidance of personal pronouns).”

“I am especially concerned that our political institutions, such as government and parties are accepting the gender identity positions uncritically out of fear or ignorance.

“It’s a question of consent. If women consent to providing care to male clients (which happens all the time in residential/nursing homes, etc.), that’s fine. I do not agree that females should have to deal with a male body against their consent, as in a female police officer having to search a male because he ids as a woman.”

“I work in VAWG and it is now almost impossible to offer women only services, certainly without hassle.”

“Just when women start to make some progress this cult comes along to push women back down. The job/livelihood threat is a very effective way to silence women & keep them away from being politically active.”

“My workplace is statutory funded, a hostel for women, and despite management wanting it to be women only, have had to accept transwomen as they were told funding would otherwise be withdrawn. If I were to speak openly about my views I would at least be subject to disciplinary procedures, at worst be dismissed. Being gender critical is not a safe subject to discuss at work, in the community or in society at present in my view. That the basic biology of sex is being eroded and viewed as a belief scares me, and is akin to denying evolution or that the earth is round.”

“I am retired so not personally affected but appalled about misinformation, attacks and silencing of GC women.”

“I’m concerned about sharing change rooms and toilets with men & my workplace prioritising the needs of transwomen when my workplace is still very sexist and ignoring the law and/or the needs of women. Such as providing a private room for breastfeeding women; maternity rights; suitable PPE; pay gap etc.”

“I am in a senior position and able, with difficulty, to challenge some of the more misogynist aspects of the gender cult and lessen the extent to which they are implemented in my organisation. But the general impact is unpleasant and I am not able to speak freely or discuss this broad issue with colleagues. And I strongly suspect that I am considered to be a bigot by some, especially the younger women.”

“Women at work already run a risk of sexist dismissal every time they assert themselves. Blonde moment / must be her time if the month/ oooh, not just a pretty face / Karen. Many GC women are of a mature age and are dismissed as dinosaurs (and worse) so easy to marginalise, put up for redundancy etc.”

“I work in a tech company that considers itself very ‘woke’. I mentioned Caitlin Moran to my boss who dismissed her as a horrible terf. I consider myself a terf, but I would lose my job if I told anyone my views. Woman are not allowed to protect our hard won freedoms.”

“I work for a union who have embraced the gender ideology and feel it would be career suicide to be open about being GC.”

“My regulatory body (UKCP) [UK Council for Psychotherapy] has thrown people out for not believing in gender ideology. I have challenged them and they seem to be refusing my payment for this years subscription. They simply sent me a copy of their ‘conversion therapy’ policy and have ignored my further requests for clarification. The implication being that criticising gender ideology is ‘conversion therapy’. They have a policy which states, if someone says they are any gender identity, this must be validated even if you as the therapist feels there is an underlying cause for the dysphoria which is treatable.”

“I volunteer. When they were creating a new database they suggested Gender in place of sex. I corrected them. There are some mutterings about changing it again. If they do, I will resign. I won’t be complicit in it.”

“It isn’t just women in professional spaces – my husband fully supports my GC stance, but cannot speak out at work or he would lose his job.”

“I work in the justice sector yet can’t speak about men in women’s prisons for fear of being sacked. This makes placing vulnerable women at risk go unchallenged.”

“Not sure what q51 refers to- no problem with female nurse/ care staff but would have problems with e.g., beauty therapists being expected to provide services to men.”

“I’m on disability so nothing personal, but this is a huge issue.”

“My employer has a transgender employee policy which allows any male to use any female spaces on their own say-so. This is the official policy and it includes the threat of disciplinary proceedings against anyone who objects.”

“I actually retired early as a result of having been threatened with disciplinary action for speaking of my experience with my trans-identified ex.”

“University of Bristol student union has disaffiliated a feminist group founded by four POC women because it doesn’t allow trans-identified men.”

“Like I said, it is the equivalent of political mansplaining. Instead of an actual man doing it, it’s lobbies, and policies, and mandates, and procedures, and rhetoric, and social pressure. The sum total of which is oppressive and stressful for women to bear.”

I am a self-employed artist and so somewhat shielded from the worst of what is going on now – however I have taught at University level and have previously been involved in exhibiting with other female artists.”

I am a therapist, and I work with extremely liberal people in our office. (I am liberal, but not the extreme brand of liberal that seems to have gone off the rails completely with several issues. I am definitely not a Conservative.) There is NO room for discussion on the matter. I have white women calling me “Latinx” and I wish I could just scream at them to knock it off with the white woke fuckery. I am NOT Latinx. Most of us (Mexican / Latinos) loath this nonsense. I would LOVE to have a conversation about this but I KNOW I would be fired. We can’t talk about transgenderism (which just blows my mind as we are mostly all women!) and the cult-like ideology that has swept our field.”

“I work in a creative field that’s highly saturated with “queer” people. I’m confident I’ll have to keep my views carefully hidden forever or else risk losing my job.”

“No woman should ever be forced to pretend a man is the same as her. It is pure misogyny to suggest otherwise. Far too many employers are unthinking misogynists.”

“It has been a long hard road for women to access these professional levels, and I am shocked and dismayed at how quickly and easily they are being taken from us. Men who sub/consciously believe we don’t deserve them and women who have been socialised to prioritise the male, both these groups have played their part in this. Transactivists are few in number really, they could not have achieved it alone, both these groups were essential.”

“The trans movement is a men’s rights movement designed to shut women up and take away their power and remove them from influence.”

“I have now got myself a position in a company which does not subscribe to gender politics. However, I am regularly dealing with the impact that gender ideology is having on the college at which my partner works. As a lesbian, my partner feels the low level threat that she may be called into senior management for not conforming. This has had a direct impact on both her and my mental health.”

“A change of senior management and recruitment of new staff into my organisation has meant a) that I feel less supported in my views at work than I was with my previous chief exec, who had researched the matter while the new one has not given any indication of having done so, and b) newer staff are importing gender ideology.” 

“I have had one formal investigation because of my views on social media, after being reported by 2 TRAs.”

“As a woman I should not have to worry about being “re-educated” in a rape crisis centre by a man claiming to be a woman (thanks rape crisis Edinburgh) nor should I be refused treatment at hospital for asking to be on a single sex ward with no men however they identify or have rapists in the bed next to me or have intimate care/procedures done by men claiming to be women.”

“I am a retired doctor and disgusted at the way the NHS has bought into this idiocy. Women should not have to suffer male patients in their single sex wards, or be addressed as “bodies with vaginas”, “chest feeders” etc. Ditto any enforcing of lanyards, pronouns etc.” 

“I’m concerned that at some point I will be in a position where my conscience and my lack of belief in gender identity ideology will mean I have to tell the truth and/or decline to lie and that will lead me to lose my job.”

“Gender ideology is making the world an even more unsafe place for women & girls than it is already. It’s already harder for women to pursue a career & be in the world. Now we have women’s opportunities curtailed so that males can be included in the category of women. This is patriarchy in lipstick, patriarchy on steroids. A new attack on our few rights, protections & opportunities. I am very afraid of the intimate care issue. I always request female only medical care. If I am unable to do this, I will be unable to access healthcare. I was raped by a male healthcare worker.”

“I got bullied out of my women’s studies degree because of my views.”

“I am appalled at the bullying, rape and death threats that women are receiving. Most recently the behaviour of TRAs towards Kathleen Stock.”

“Women are already under a great deal to placate and caretake in the office so rejecting this ideology is especially detrimental to women’s advancement. I’m not personally concerned about advancing professionally so I don’t succumb to the pressure as much as others.”

“The movement deliberately captured powerful spaces as they knew most women would object. NGOs that work for women have lost all perspective.”

“Women are being erased. These measures have not made the workplace a safer or more equal one for women. It’s just another way for men to be promoted, and women silenced.”

“If the definition of women is unclear, women cannot be legislated for. If they cannot be legislated for as a distinct, well defined class then they will lose rights and progress made towards equal access to society.”

“Get ALL males out of female prisons. Get males off female hospital wards. Preserve single sex spaces. Support the trans community fairly with safe spaces for them and safe treatment options. This movement divides society by undermining the rights of women. We all need to be able to live side by side but no one can actually change sex and society needs to stop lying about this. Especially to children.”

“I see women (in particular) bowing to putting their pronouns on email signatures etc.- it’s clear this is adversely affecting women more than men.”

“I’m in Canada where GI ideology has captured the federal, provincial and municipal governments where I live; also the medical, legal, educational and social service institutions; also private corporations (e.g. credit unions) and trade union leadership. There is a great deal of blind acceptance of the idea that this is a ‘human rights’ movement — huge ignorance of what is actually happening and how threatening it is to women, children and same-sex attracted people. I can only speak up and work on gender critical education behind the scenes outside of my workplace.”

“I’m lucky – I work in construction and pretty much nobody there believes this shit. I am only a little worried that we might be affected by this, as the vast majority of blue-collar workers don’t buy this crap at all, and are more likely to engage in vigorous protest against it.”

“Living in a third world country transgender people aren’t as mainstream, so it’s usually not a problem, but wanting to have a job in a first world country worries me that I’d have to censor myself.”

“I’m concerned that stats about the wage gap or representation will not be accurate. I’m concerned that affirmative action or DEI initiatives will benefit men rather than women. I witnessed a man use a program to help women transfer off hostile teams to transfer into a much more prestigious role bypassing the interview process which is known to have a low pass rate.”

“I currently work in a place where gender identity politics are vastly unpopular, but I hope to eventually work for some organizations that are more related to my passions. Unfortunately, many of the lead organizations in these areas tend to have adopted gender identity ideology already, which I view as sexist, racist, and homophobic. Despite this, I still would like to work for these organizations, as the core work they do, I strongly believe in.”

“I used to be highly active in programs and scholarships for girls in STEM fields, now that has to include boys who identify and it has completely ruined the point.”

“I’m on sick leave from work but I’m a journalist and I’m afraid to start writing again because of my GC views. I’m also banned for life from Twitter and I can’t seem to get around it with alt accounts.”

“I am retired, but I AM SURE I would have been fired were I told to lie and use compelled speech–I was already on the hot seat as a Lesbian for speaking out about LGB rights (not T please). I was an instructor with tenure which was eliminated due to Act 10.”

“Workplaces are adopting too much under the guise of inclusivity compelled pronoun usage creates a hostile environment.”

“I try to avoid these topics at work because I know I wouldn’t be able to lie about how I really feel. I’m disabled and have been unemployed before and it’s very important to me to keep my job. Luckily (I guess?) my industry is generally pretty conservative so it’s not been much of a problem.”

“My own workplace isn’t like this, but I worry about moving jobs in the future and my profession.”

“Women in the work place are already at a disadvantage. I have been the victim of sexist bullying and misogyny from our chief executive, as have colleagues, and other seniors have found his example made it easier for their misogyny to flourish. The last thing we need is the pressure to accept biological males as being more real women than we are, and letting them use their male privilege to steal the hard fought rights we have earned. Take the example of pushing us to put pronouns on emails. There is copious evidence that making it more obvious that an opinion comes from a woman makes it more likely to be dismissed, and yet we are meant to wave she/her as a flag of surrender.”

“This is the only ideology work FORCES you to accept. They don’t force other beliefs on you, but this is compelled language.”

“Any male who wants to administer a service or work in a role reserved for women (i.e., intimate care/removing tampons from a disabled woman/administering a smear test/managing a rape crisis centre), is exactly the type of men who shouldn’t be anywhere near women.”

“It all leads to a scent of fascism in the air. It often feels like social democracy is leaving and the ice cold breeze of totalitarian moving in on us all. In my last workplace, I came in on a conversation where one of the two women was talking about chest feeding instead of breast feeding. I waited till I’d established that there was common understanding before stating my asked for opinion. However, the young (white) woman used this against me and reported it. Didn’t like the job anyway but, that event marked the start of my troubles and I ended up leaving. It’s so hard to trust in the workplace these days. Also, given the role of the police in a number of high profile cases involving women murdered, and with several constabularies clinging to this regressive ideology I’ve got to say, plus their ongoing racism, as a woman I have little faith in Ol’ Bill.”

“I am director of a company together with my husband. Our office is small and I have not had to deal with any Gender/sex, toilet problems we are in a shared office building and things have not changed yet, if they do I will fight it.”

“It feels like society is going backwards with regards to equality of the sexes.”

“Due to gender identity ideology where I live there are now laws and professional gender affirming requirements imposed on me professionally. If I speak up I will be deplatformed, cancelled and likely also lose my registration to practice. Socially my family may become targets along with me by trans identity ideology activists. We are in an absolute mess where I live due to this trans identity ideology. I cannot practice ethically currently to support children, adolescents and adults experiencing gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, problems with sexual disorders, or complex mental health conditions. For people with neurodevelopmental disabilities I cannot support their developing understanding of Self, sexual development, sexual attraction, and assist with exploring gender in different sociocultural contexts across time. It’s an absolute mess.”

“This ideology and misogyny go hand in hand. At my recent sexual harassment training, it was emphasized that women harass too, even though it is 95% men doing the harassing. The same people push gender ideology at work also.”

“I have moved job twice once to avoid a TIM colleague intimidating me the second was too interested in me but I was too scared to rebuff them and concerned they could follow me into female toilets.”

“I work in a science based field. I won’t be anti-science.”

“I have been lucky so far in being open at my workplace about my feminism but we’ve had some truly terrible HR disasters with entitled males trying to get ESL speakers and literal refugees from war-torn countries fired for not using nonsense pronouns for him so it may be a matter of time before I come under fire, it’s definitely a concern for me as a working class lesbian. I don’t have a safety net. I am outraged with the attacks on women and our rights in academia, legislation, nonprofits, etc. here in a place where we are still fighting the powerful, anti-woman religious right, and outraged that women can be summarily fired as though we were vile neonazis just for speaking up for women’s rights in our own social groups.”

“I’ve just completed a postgraduate qualification in which all dialogue around gender issues seemed policed by one or two students. At least six students expressed concerns about this to me.”

“Not being able to speak openly about these facts affects me a great deal and is a huge source of frustration.”

“I am anxious about all the embedded Stonewall training in those companies that once were Stonewall champions, even if they are no longer. It’s like they’ve seeded a whole generation of Manchurian candidates. This training is embedded in the weirdest of documents and places.”

“I’m not concerned about women providing care to males because women aren’t perverts. Men are, so I am much more concerned about males interacting with women in any capacity, but especially as health care providers.”

“Again, I don’t worry for myself. I worry for other women with more to lose/more at stake.”

“It is outrageous that institutions are using ideology to silence women and remove them from their jobs.”

“So many of our institutions and government departments have been captured by gender ideology. I know professional women who are afraid to speak openly about their GC views for fear of losing their jobs.”

“When women are silenced we cannot protect our rights, effect change or fully participate in society. This is fascism against women. Women are being forced out of jobs, awards, sports and all our spaces.”

“I am a full time carer so not in a work environment but I have noticed ‘gender’ appearing on many forms that need to be filled in and none having sex as a different option”.

“Too many women are facing witch hunts merely due to stating biological facts.”

“I find it unbelievable that Rape Crisis Edinburgh is run by a man who expresses the most disturbing views about the women who go there. I am truly appalled by events at Sussex University, and at Edinburgh University.”

“I’m not working but I see gender stuff posted all the time now on Linked In. Pronouns, reference to non binary people, trans people being given prominence for being brave and trailblazing. I’m glad I’m not dealing with this at work. I did work in the LGBT sector, 2013/15, and I supported trans rights and trans inclusion. We didn’t know it would get so out of hand. And would threaten women’s rights. We had no idea.”

“As a freelancer in a relatively high profile profession (corporate PR), I both self censor my public views and self-exclude from certain sectors because I believe my views, if discovered, would stop clients from hiring me.”

“I am a councillor. They asked me to stand; I told them I was GC. My party has been captured; I am one of a large group trying to change party policy on puberty blockers, ‘conversion therapy’ transing gay & lesbian youngsters. But we have lots of councillors beginning to wake up to the problem.”

“Kathleen Stock / Maya Forstater / Holly Lawford-Smith / Rosa Freedman / Claire Chandler / Kath Deves / Martina Navratilova etc.!!!! From my own point of view I am a subcontracting nurse, choose my home & workplace clients – no gender identity inputs. If I were still working as a hospital or community nurse I know I would be in trouble with my GC views.”

“Ultimately we could see women excluded from professional spaces, especially if women’s parity positions can be filled with TiMs.”

“I answer ‘no’ for question 47, because I don’t feel able to speak openly, although I’ve discussed gender identity extensively in private communication with the EDI and HR teams. Discussion of an ‘identity’ based topics are strictly forbidden in any public sense, this includes discussion of race- I have colleagues who are members of ethnic minority backgrounds who feel unable to say how they feel about race related diversity drives (largely led by white men). In addition I was unable to attend a programme intended for the promotion of women in technology because my childcare needs could not be accommodated, the same year a trans woman who had transitioned in their 40s and who had a long career in technology was given a space with no questions.”

“Where are the trans men being admitted to seminaries, yeshivot, madrassas, the Freemasons? The entryism is almost entirely in one direction and women’s spaces are under attack because it is assumed that we won’t push back and are an easier target.”

“I work in a university and the organisational capture is a blight on critical thought. I dread the authoritarian smiles of the inclusion people. It always means centre trans and dismiss women. They never even bother with other protected characteristics. Inclusion means exclusion for women.”

“I’m concerned about how much women are being bullied and harassed and that those who are self-righteous condone it. This will, and has, crept into other topics and areas of our society. It is become an environment of intolerance, and people, especially young people, are losing their ability to think critically.”

“Women fought for entry into professions and decently paid work. Women’s positions have been given away to men claiming womanhood and men have claimed women’s prizes and posts.”

“I am concerned about being pushed to put pronouns in signatures. We have unconscious bias training, our job application forms are completely blind, but putting pronouns in signatures signals that we are male or female. There is much research showing that text is less highly regarded if it appears to come from a woman, and we all have experience of not being listened to in meetings because of our sex. I have no problem recognising the gender identity of ftm or mtf trans people that I know personally; they have presented as their adopted gender and have been mature and reasonable people. I am concerned about possibly working with someone who imagines themselves to be ‘non-binary’ or to have one of the newly minted genders and/or is looking to create grievances. I am also politically active and a member of a party that has been very much captured by gender ideology. I could be expelled from the party if my beliefs were known. However, I feel much less enthusiasm for the party now, knowing that it has abandoned its concern for women’s rights, does not regard my beliefs as acceptable, and does not value my membership. I work in the public sector – we are supposed to be impartial, non-political, avoid group think, and consider all points of view. Gender ideology is completely at variance with this. Trans and non-binary people are privileged, pronouns and rainbows everywhere give the impression of bias, opposing views are not allowed.”

“In work, I try to be brave and tell the truth. I am fighting the organisation over their wish to be associated with Stonewall.”

“Women are having careers destroyed or ruled out whilst men are unaffected by, for example, expressing misogynistic or racist views (whether trans-related or not). Vulnerable women are being subject to abuse (including rape and other physical or sexual violence) and punished when they complain purely in order to satisfy a subset of narcissist, often autogynephilic, often predatory, males.”

“I have seen the results of other women’s harassment. I work closely with people in the university sector. Women’s political positions have already been taken by men as have positions like the one at Edinburgh rape crisis. A Scottish politician has stated that a panel of 50/50 transwomen and men would be considered gender balanced, when women are already underrepresented. Female MPs receive abuse for discussing women’s concerns.”

“Concerned that progress on sex equality is being undermined by allowing men on women only lists, awards, etc.”

“Women have been under represented for ever. Transwomen tanning women’s places harms women even more.”

“I spent twenty years in the so-called “progressive” criminal justice reform community. Because of GI ideology, I am no longer able to work in my field.”

“It has always never been a level playing field in terms of pay & promotion for women, but gender ideology has significantly moved the goalposts. I no longer work, but when I did, I was worried I could be disciplined or sacked because of my views.”

“I am a management consultant (self employed), a writer, a student and an activist. As a consultant, my clients have pronouns on their zoom screens etc. I ignore it. Many of my clients know my views but as I fiercely say I am ‘lesbian, not queer’, and almost all of them are straight they do not go further. But if I was less respected in my profession and/or more reliant on the income, I would find it much harder to be upfront – and even I do not push the issue. As a student, so far, (I am doing a PHD by practice in creative writing) I have not had any hassle. I can feel it might come but will deal with it then. I am not aware of losing either work or publishing opportunities as a result of my views. However, – I see what is happening, I know how very cautious many friends are (especially university staff) and see a press utterly supine on the matter. While there is much more debate recently (that you Ed Davey etc.) the Welsh media absolutely silent on the issue, even though the govt is consulting on its iniquitous action plan. While Welsh media *is* poor, the presenters and journalists are *terrified* of touching this matter – so the chilling effect of all the above also silences the press.”

“Women are employed to do the job advertised. Identity politics/ideology has no place in professional spaces.”

“It has occurred to me as a freelancer that my views on this topic may have contributed to the recent lack of work, even having been assured it’s due to other factors. The fact it crossed my mind means it’s a worry.”

“I’m very concerned about autistic people and people with learning/processing difficulties finding it very hard to remember/use pronouns, even those who may want to.”

“I had a volunteer position which I resigned because there were clients who were men pretending to be women and vice versa, and I was able to avoid addressing them directly, but I knew it was only a matter of time. I knew that if I didn’t go along with false pronouns that it would get the whole org in trouble and they stood to get in deep trouble and perhaps lose their funding and location. I chose to stop volunteering in order not to jeopardize the organization.” 

“The silencing of women is being enforced young. At schools and at Universities in Ireland. A generation of young women groomed to be fearful of voicing their true opinions or stating biological facts is a terrifying prospect.”

“I am currently a stay at home mum so some of the questions are not applicable. However my previous job was within the NHS & I would have been extremely concerned about voicing my ‘gc’ opinions or being compelled to use pronouns at work etc.”

“Just to state the obvious: when men take women’s seats, awards, scholarships, roles, then they’re no longer for women, and their original purpose (women’s quotas, help disadvantaged, or create female only services) has been voided.”

“That although I’ve now retired, I worked in Govt and it was practically impossible to speak because the workplace and union were policy captured.”

“Critical conversations and professional researched ideas and opinions are important in the world of academia. Closing down these important views which often are oppositional leaves a space for the misogynistic view of the trans women self ID to assert aggression especially towards women who disagree. Women are naturally not aggressive like men, men who self ID just can’t help it and are often backed by a white man who wants to shut down women as that’s his auto pilot blue print makeup. Mansplaining to women who are concerned of the effects of transitioning especially in children about the negative long term affects of hormone and puberty blockers in childhood and later in life and also the mental health aspect. Being critical is essential in every area in life but being accused and cancelled as women will cause more harm. Women’s safety & children’s safety need to maintain safety and those safety nets must never be eroded even though they are quickly being taken away as I do this survey. It’s not illegal to call someone a he or she and shouldn’t be so. Stonewall are responsible for the erosion of women’s rights and have labelled gay and lesbian people as misogynists too. It’s appalling. They are the misogynistic ones who look at women with an aggressive male gaze, that’s why they want to beat them with strangle holds in MMA even though they fought as a man and were serving male veterans like McLaughlin, Hubbard as a weight lifter even though women were ruled out to compete from NZ they must beat us. They must be better. It’s a dangerous way we are being led. Prof Stock being the latest casualty at Sussex Uni, frightened for her academic writing. It’s appalling. It proves my point. Along with aggressive self ID trans women kicking stuff over in stores in the US for someone incorrectly addressing them as men. It’s men who are still aggressors and they are making their socially woke straight friends who believe they are so ethically correct part of their gang to intimidate scholars, business people and workers. Even my 13 y old daughter was called transphobic as she asked how boys can have periods.”

“I am a Unison member and recently attended a webinar hosted by them on empowering women. It was chaired by a transwoman (so a man) who is the chair of Unison women’s committee. It was like the Emperor’s New Clothes. No one said anything. As a woman I felt less empowered as I thought it would be a safe place to speak. I didn’t say anything. Just felt angry, confused, let down by my union as I know it won’t support me if my GC views are outed at work.”

“Shocking that Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre are open to Transwomen.”

“I told you in the last page about my experiences at work but there is, I supposed, more besides. I am unafraid of being fired because my boss and I see eye to eye on these issues one hundred percent. I cannot leave or go anywhere else because nobody would hire me, I suspect, knowing where I have worked. We are not an extreme organisation, we just know that women are human and deserve rights. Many activists tried to get our funding cut, managed to get our events shut down due to ‘security concerns’ and hounded higher profile staff. None of it worked. We are here, and they cannot do anything about it. I also study though, and do not feel at all like talking about this issue at my university. The one woman who did talk about this now requires security on campus.” 

“I was volunteering for a local community group and helped organise a local pride type event among other community events. Before being more public about my Gender Critical views I gave up the volunteering as not to cause conflict in the group and bring them under unnecessary scrutiny. I am currently unemployed (I had gone to work in the mental health field as an activities nurse but it was too soon in my recovery) and I feel I might be ready to try for jobs again but I have been put off certain roles because of their policies on gender etc.” 

“It’s just not fair. Women already struggle for equality in the workplace.”

“Women are losing all of these spaces already and three times now woman of the year has gone to men. Female athletes are being legally beaten in the MMA by men who are paid and praised for it!!”

“It seems to me that it has become normal for woman’s awards to be given to men in dresses. I fear for woman.”

“At a time when Women’s Sex based rights still are not where we need them to be its insulting and demoralising that anyone would accept men taking places designated for women.”

“I’ve waffled on a lot (apologies, I’m one handed today too). I’m sick of this shit. I’m about to start supporting some students through work and instead of looking forward to it, I’m dreading it. I know I will have to be very careful about what I say (not just about this). As a practitioner I should be getting them to question things, challenge them and ask uncomfortable things (this is social work after all, we deal with the uncomfortable, if not downright vile at times). But instead I’ll have to navigate the terrain carefully, therefore being complicit with no debate nonsense that is today’s university experience.”

“I am a teacher in Scotland. The Scottish government’s trans guidance for schools is extremely worrying to me.”

“There are no single sex toilets remaining at my workplace, all toilets are on the basis of self identified gender identity at the moment of use (i.e., could change daily, hourly etc.) I restrict my water intake to avoid using them. I also do not cycle to work due to showers operating under the same policy and having a communal changing area. I am frequently encouraged to share my pronouns even though I believe this will increase the amount of sexism and discrimination I face. It also implies an acceptance of compelled speech and gender ideology both of which are beliefs I don’t share.”

“I’m lucky, I’m self employed. I have had whispers about my “problematic” twitter account in my volunteering roles.”

“Universities are indoctrinating future professionals with trans ideology.”

“Women should not be asked to deny their sex in order to remain in or get a job, at any level.”

“The capture of the NHS is a big problem. Women no longer have the right to be examined by a woman. Women being forced to examine men (medical, police, prisons) is outrageous. I was shot down for correcting a technical document that had terrible language but have not been able to travel to challenge it face to face. The person in charge of creating the gender identity language is a man who women in the office, including myself, find sexually threatening. The predominance of men who call themselves women in tech would be an issue if I joined women in STEM orgs. It is insulting based on all the discrimination that I have faced to suddenly bring in men and not think that is a problem.”

“Women have had to fight to gain the rights and professional advancement they have (not enough!), so it is particularly galling and feels dangerous to see trans women take up those few ‘reserved’ roles and spaces.”

“When we are scared at losing our jobs because of our thoughts, we are living in a totalitarian society.” 

“I was very involved in an environmental group in a voluntary capacity but am no longer involved because of their demand that you say what pronoun you use and have several friends who are equally uncomfortable with this in their professional and work settings.”

“The firing of gender critical women is horrific.”

“I would be prepared to get fired over GII. Institutions adopting this ideology is not really surprising. They were never really for women. Sad to see the services that were originally organised and self-funded by women being lost (however, it is a logical result of accepting government funding and losing independence).”

“I have decided not to continue my studies to phd level as gender critical views are considered very controversial within my field (visual arts).”

“No words other than horrified!”

“Q47 at work I would discuss quietly with close colleagues, now slightly more comfortable being more open at work, thanks to Maya F.”

“I am in a female dominated workplace and can speak freely in my office but the organisation is different, completely captured by gender ideology so we all worry about it in our office (4 women).”

“Women are being expelled from all professional spaces, particularly as being able to talk.”

“I am retired and a not a member of any group, so I can’t be damaged or imposed upon by gender activities. People who have to negotiate these companies and organisations to keep their jobs have my sympathy (and anger).”

“Very concerned. Have just met with my HR to raise my concerns; they were actually supportive.”

“No one should be forced to participate in another person’s inaccurate perception of themselves.”

“Just as it seemed we were at a real turning point, blimey Women’s Footie was on TV and actually being shown some real respect and was enjoyed – suddenly Transwomen (MEN) are popping up in ‘Women’s’ position. Caitlin Jenner, ‘Woman’ for a year, becomes Woman of the year. How, HOW, can a male-born woman have ANY say in a Woman’s Rape Crisis Centre! I feel like this movement is trying (quite successfully at the moment!) to take my language by re-defining words I use (woman) and my voice by placing the male-born in positions of ‘power’ or at least influence. I have never felt so silenced. EVER.”

“As a woman in tech, I can’t speak up in support of women as the industry is totally captured by basement-dwelling AGPs.”

“My work place is not too bad. We are not signed up to Stonewall and there are separate diversity groups for LGBTQ and women which seems to recognise the difference between sex and gender identity. Some colleagues use pronouns in their email but not many and I do have some trans colleagues but I have problems using their pronouns. I have supported trans people and will continue to do so but will not acquiesce to the extremism of gender identity ideology and the demands of tras that impact women, children, gay men and lesbians. I do worry my company will fall but it hasn’t happened so far and seems to be doing its best to recognise all diversity. I do not speak about these issues unless someone else mentions it first but even then would be careful what I said but I do have people I have known for years but even then I would be careful and only if they bring it up. Prior to Maya’s case I would not have said anything at all but at least now I feel I can defend myself and speak up against things I know are wrong.”

“I do speak out at work, but not as much as I would like as I realise some people disagree (others think I am unhinged) so I am not open with everyone at work and bc I work in a single sex school I am anxious about the very real possibility that I may be expected to affirm gender identity if it comes up, which I do not want to do. Others in my workplace do not share my views.”

“Women’s rights are being destroyed by men’s rights to say they’re women, they have no respect for any rights women have, not even the right to work. It seems like the premeditated destruction of women.”

“What can one say. We know the TRAs want women hounded out of jobs etc.”

“Since the Forstater ruling no woman should be at risk of losing her job because of her GC views. This needs to be upheld.” 

“I want the government to explain why Stonewall have been allowed to capture organisations with an ideology that is dangerous to women’s safety, women’s jobs and women’s opportunities.”

“I feel that all aspects of women’s liberation, where we seemed to be moving steadily forward for most of my life, are now running in reverse because women in work places, academic and political worlds, divide between those who’ve accepted that gender trumps sex and those who are keeping their views to themselves. It means very few women are really firing on all cylinders in the world ‘out there’ any more. This distresses me enormously.”