Over the past year there have been significant shifts:

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• In July 2023, Women’s Rights Network uncovered widespread evidence of rapes and sexual assaults across hospitals in England and Wales. We believe this underlines the need for single sex wards.

• Guidance for schools published in December 2023 by the Department for Education promotes a ‘cautious approach’ to socially transitioning children and in particular ensuring that single-sex spaces and opportunities are protected including toilets, changing rooms and sports.

• In January 2024, Women’s Rights Network uncovered an unlawful policy that allowed male officers to search women. This guidance has since been withdrawn.​

• In April 2024, the Cass Review found that medical research into gender medicine was an area of ‘remarkably weak evidence’. As such, Cass warns that medical interventions including drugs and surgery should only offered under a research project and that overseas clinics should be avoided.

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But political parties and candidates are still afraid of saying clearly that sex matters, and they use the excuse that they are not hearing about our concerns on the doorstep. 

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We want to make sure they keep hearing that women’s rights and child safeguarding matter to people up and down the country.