WRN Devon and Cornwall

Tomorrow is Saturday and that means PARKRUN for many thousands of people… If you’re wondering why we campaign for fair parkrun for women take a few minutes to watch our short film Parkrun Is Failing Females. In the years since we made this film the Supreme Court has confirmed the word woman means female sex and the EHRC has published its Code of Practice. @parkrunUK has run out of excuses and still refuses to budge on its policy of allowing males to self-identify into the female category. Our members and supporters continue to run and volunteer at parkrun. It is a great community health initiative but it is also a sport that has a timed start and finish, records scores in reverse order, and celebrates winners and new course records. Parkrun is a multi-million pound company that is funded by UK taxpayers and lottery funds. It needs to serve all its members fairly. Currently women and girls are treated unfairly. Watch our film! youtu.be/i0kW3LiNFEM?is=RmI1…

Two weeks today! Our first ever national conference on Sunday 5th July in central London promises to be a lively and sometimes controversial day. Our speakers will be discussing a wide range of topics including: violence and exploitation; the future of women’s sport; feminism and young women; women and the Law. Tickets for Feminism: What’s the Point? available via the link in our pinned post. Here’s reminder of the speakers on our four panels at Feminism: What's the Point? 1/6

MEN AND WOMEN PREFER SINGLE SEX PROVISION A very clear and consistent poll result 👇 that demonstrates what we all know. Men and women overwhelmingly prefer privacy, dignity and safety in the presence of their own sex in changing rooms and toilets. Ask a clear question: they gave a clear answer!

We are grateful to Baroness Cash for her proposed amendment for the police to record sex accurately. @Fox_Claire outlined the case superbly👇, including WRN's own communications with the NPCC @PoliceChiefs, who, like the Government, have their feet set firmly in treacle. The need for correct sex data has been clearly demonstrated by @ProfAliceS in her excellent report. Meanwhile, as demonstrated by WRN's own FOIs to police forces, including that of @ASPolice (referenced below by @CforWomenUK), sex is either not being recorded at all, or is being conflated with 'gender', and is entirely based on self ID. Some of the perverse consequences of this wholesale corruption of data are large numbers of 'female rapists' recorded. As a result, no one can rely on the integrity or credibility of police data with regard to sex. This is unacceptable.

Thank you @mimsdavies for raising the work done by WRN on the important issue of sexual assaults on women in our hospitals. Action to tackle this effectively is long overdue. It is totally unacceptable that women are exposed to this, and as you state: "perpetrators are getting away with it". Clearly not much has changed at all since our report "When we are at our most vulnerable", was published in 2023 👇 womensrights.network/hospita…

Women across the UK are STILL waiting for the Supreme Court ruling to be fully implemented and adhered to. The EHRC Code of Practice is STILL gathering dust in @bphillipsonMP's in-box. We simply do not agree with the assertion by @SeemaMalhotra1 that suggestions of delay are 'completely wrong'. Feet are being dragged, and this has been kicked into the long grass. Prove us wrong! Thank you for your question @ClaireCoutinho

This is an epidemic of sex based violence being perpetrated by men on women. An epidemic that has been happening in plain sight for many, many years and is not abating. People have become so used to the murder of women taking place, the scale of it barely registers, and is dangerously close to being accepted as ‘normality’. Violence on this level does not happen in a vacuum. It happens in a society when girls and women are devalued, disregarded and dismissed. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5n…

For every verbal commitment we hear from Sir Mark Rowley and other chief officers, we then read of the reality for female officers. From expecting them to share toilets and showers with male colleagues, to asking them to strip search male detainees, to persecuting them for daring to expose predatory colleagues. Something is terribly wrong in policing. The current approach will not fix it. Chief officers aren’t listening. observer.co.uk/news/national…

Wow. This may be just a pause. But it’s a significant pause as increasingingly the real concerns cannot be ignored. Now listen @wesstreeting. Make that pause permanent. STOP THE PUBERTY BLOCKER TRIAL telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02…

Language used for women around pregnancy and childbirth is important for women's dignity and experience within the NHS. It is time to stop messing about with “inclusive” language, and say it as it is: women give birth and women breast feed. Women need maternity leave to care for the baby and to recover from pregnancy. There is no "and". petition.parliament.uk/petit…

STOP THE PUBERTY BLOCKER TRIAL What can you do to support this important action by @BayswaterSG, @JamesEsses and @KeiratheYoungOG? Come and join the Lobby Day! On Tuesday 10th March, WRN will be joining @SexMatters and @AllianceLGB at the UK Parliament as we lobby MPs to call on the Health Secretary @wesstreeting to intervene and stop the puberty blocker trial. More info below 👇 womensrights.network/lobby-d…