Recommendations

The WiT survey has gathered large-scale evidence that women are deeply concerned about the embedding of gender identity ideology into our societies. Many spoke of harms caused to them in all areas of life and of the distress they experienced as a result of this. They reported being silenced and persecuted if they raised these concerns publicly and even, for some, in the privacy of their own homes. They also spoke of an aggressive and dishonest manner used to coerce them into colluding with GI.

Women gave arguments for why GI is an anti-women and anti-feminist ideology that poses a multitude of threats to women and girls.

Some women reported being unable to access appropriate formal mental health support to cope with the distress caused, or pre-existing problems being exacerbated, by GI. However women have been helped by connecting with like-minded women. 

Mental distress caused by a hostile environment should not be individualised, the hostile environment must be addressed.

These are the recommendations of WiT:   

1. Women and men, girls and boys, to be categorised by sex, not by any unverifiable gender identity which promotes regressive sex role stereotypes over biological reality. The use of the words sex and gender must be used correctly and gender should never be used as a replacement for the word sex.
   
   
2. All purported women only services and facilities to be restored to their status as single sex.
   
   
3. It is in the public interest that a full and transparent public inquiry should be set up to establish the impact on women where gender identity is taking priority over sex. It should particularly address the threats of loss of employment which is being used to silence women. The use of threats of loss of employment or actual loss of employment, loss of income and/or obstructions to women’s progress in the workplace as a tool to silence women, is a sinister tactic that is reminiscent of historic totalitarian regimes and must be stopped. Women should not be forced to comply with the edicts of GI in the workplace or in any other setting.
   
   
4. An investigation into the promotion of GI by mainstream media, including public service broadcasters, is needed and is therefore recommended. There is a crisis of journalism whereby mainstream media is refusing to accurately report on the effects of GI on women and is even disseminating misinformation to the detriment of women.
   
   
5. Of particular concern to women who responded to the survey was the medicalisation of children and the indoctrination of children in schools. The Cass Report has made some progress in challenging this from a medical perspective but a full public inquiry into the promotion of GI in schools and in healthcare settings is needed.
   
   
6. It was observed by some survey respondents that lesbian erasure is happening on a scale that could constitute cultural genocide, with the destruction of lesbian culture and the mass medicalisation and sterilisation of young lesbians. Under GI the definition of lesbian is changed from being women who are same sex attracted to women who are same gender attracted, such that heterosexual men are demanding to be referred to as lesbians. This removes altogether the concept of lesbianism as same sex attracted women. The destruction of lesbian culture and their reproductive rights due to the medicalisation of lesbians must be investigated and action taken to remedy any harms caused to lesbian life.
   
   
7. Political lobby groups such as WPATH, and Stonewall in the UK, should not be dictating statutory service providers’ policies. These organisations are promoting policies that are harmful to the interests of women. It is clear from the number of women who have reported self-censoring under threat of loss of income or social exclusion that many women are disturbed by GI but their dissent is made invisible because they have been silenced. There is a need for a full investigation into how this ideology has been able to permeate all of our institutions.
   
   
8. As the replacement of sex with gender identity has been taking place by means of censorship, misinformation and obfuscation, it is recommended that research is carried out to establish what the public understands about gender identity ideology. Action must be taken to clarify the issues to a public that has been misled. Of particular interest would be what the wider public understands by the terms sex and gender.
   
   
9. Governments must ensure women’s right to free speech. Threats of violence, actual violence or any other method of silencing women who speak of women’s rights and the safeguarding of women and children, must be addressed by appropriate law enforcement. Being free to speak whilst having your speech drowned out by the deliberate use of loud noises such as the setting off of sirens does not constitute free speech. The right to be heard is a necessary attribute of free speech.
   
   
10. In the UK, there exists the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004, which has embedded into law a legal fiction that people can change sex. The falsification of a person’s sex is a threat to safeguarding and to the sex-based rights of women. The GRA must be repealed.
    
    
11. The ubiquity of pornography online was identified as one of the driving forces behind GI. Governments must take action to protect women and girls from harms caused by pornography.
    
    
12. Funding has been, and is being, withheld for research into the impacts of GI on women and girls. Funding must now be made available for further research into the impact of GI on women and girls.
    
    
13. Dealing with women’s mental distress cannot safely be left in the hands of current services and the paradigms of mental health they employ. Services specifically for women are needed, informed by the analyses of patriarchy by radical feminism, in order to contextualise women’s mental distress. There also needs to be a scrutinising body, again informed by radical feminism, that critiques the ideas emerging from mainstream psychiatric services and other mental health services, along with concepts that originate from patriarchy such as can be found in the DSM and the ICD.

Much of the work to identify how women’s sex based rights can be maintained has already been carried out by the Women’s Declaration International (WDI) – formerly the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC).  It is recommended that all concerned parties read and sign the WDI Declaration.     

https://www.womensdeclaration.com/documents/78/DECLARATION_-_FINAL_VERSION_AMENDED.pdf