Women Of Dorset

  Complaint submitted to Ofsted by Women of Dorset on 24th November 2022, along with the response from Ofsted.

Women of Dorset wrote to a Dorset Primary School regarding their flying of a Progress Pride flag at the school on 29th October 2024.  A copy of the letter is below. The flag was subsequently removed.

Following publication of the Cass Review and the Transgender Trend Report - The Ideological Capture of Dorset - Nowhere To Turn we contacted the Pan Dorset Childrens Safeguarding Partnership and requested that the reports be discussed at their next meeting (25th April 2024). We never received a response from the Partnership but recently noticed via their Minutes  (Item 7) that they did discuss the reports. An action from those Minutes is that NHS Dorset provides a response to the Cass Review. Everyone involved in strategic safeguarding in Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole is now aware of the Cass and Transgender Trend Reports. We await the response from NHSDorset

On 18th May, 2024 Space Youth Project, funded by both Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council publicised on Instagram and Facebook that a demonstration would be held the following day, against the Cass Review.     Women of Dorset were so concerned that a publicly funded organisation had published and encourged  vulnerable children, young people, parents and carers to protest against the recommendations of the Cass Review that they contacted the Charity Commission with their concerns.   Women of Dorset believed that Space Youth Project was not acting in accordance with the updated NHS Guidelines, in relation to issues of gender identity and gender dysphoria. Below is the Charity Commission response.  Highlighted is the outcome from the Commissioners who would be contacting the Trustees of Space Youth Project with advice and guidance, ensuring that they had regard to the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Cass Review ...

  An on-line husting was held and a question was submitted by Women of Dorset.  Listen from 1:01:40 for the candidates responses to our question on the Cass Review:- West Dorset Husting

Women of Dorset have contacted those standing as PPC 's in the eight Dorset constituencies.  These are the questions we have asked:- Women of Dorset was established to protect womens  sex based rights & safeguarding in Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.  We're an eclectic mix of women who believe that a woman is an adult human female and that:- the law allows for single sex sevices and most people want to them but they are under attack; organisations and staff are afraid even though everyone knows the difference between male and female; language has become a battleground and everyone is walking on egg shells; no one wants to be the one to tell someone that their sense of gender identity cannot override rules that protect the safety, fairness and dignity of everyone. Confusion makes services less inclusive and less safe.  It creates conflict and it isn't kind, least of all to women.  It is up to the Government to put this right.  Therefore, we ...

There are four candidates standing in the Police and Crime Commissoner elections in Dorset on 2nd May 2024. The candidates are as follows: David Sidwick - Conservative,  Marianne Storey - Independant,  David Stokes - Labour and  Howard Legg - Lib Dem We asked the following questions on Twitter and via email:- 1)  What is your definition of the word woman? 2)  Do you agree with the College of Policing’s guidelines on searching that allow a trans identified male police officer with or without a gender recognition certificate to strip search a female detainee? If so, why? If not, why not? 3)  Do you agree with the decision of Dorset Police not to implement the College of Policing Policy? If so, why? If not, what do you intend to do about it? 4)  Will you ensure that all crime data is recorded by sex not gender?   5)  Will you ensure that sex, not gender, will be in all police policies and practices? Only one candidate responded, David Sidwick, w...

  Space Youth Project in Dorset has been accused by MP of West Dorset Chris Loder of targeting vulnerable young people. Read here

West Dorset Magazine has given a double page article Mum speaks out over gender and puberty blocker drugs  at Pages 26 to 27.

From Sex Matters:- The Cass Review final report is out! We think it is a big step forward, with multiple implications that will be hugely consequential. It demolishes the entire basis for the current model of treating gender-distressed children.  This means the end of paediatric gender medicine as we know it in England, and it will have global reverberations.    The report  makes stinging criticisms of NHS gender clinics, both adult and child, and the description of the Gender Identity Development Service is absolutely damning. Cass sometimes uses terminology – cisgender, assigned at birth, and  “trans females” that is inaccurate, unscientific and confusing. But that does not detract from the many important points she makes in this groundbreaking report.

Transgend er Trend has recen tly published its report The ideological capture of Dorset - nowhere to turn  The following account of a council completely captured by gender ideology was written by Shelley Charlesworth, with our thanks to the persistent, hard-working women in Dorset for their essential help in compiling this report. The ideological capture of Dorset - nowhere to turn

Dr Laura Favaro has recently given an interview to Jill Foster (Daily Mail) regarding her treatment by her former employer, UCL.   Laura's research revealed that female academics were being bullied into silence over their views on gender. Read the full interview here. If you are able to support Laura her Crowdfunder is open. Laura is a member of Women of Dorset and to say that we're proud of her very courageous stand is an understatement.  We completely support Laura in her fight for justice and recognition of sex based rights.

Chris Loder MP for West Dorset was recently interviewed by Steve Harris of Radio Solent. Chris had received concerns from parents over children and young people being prescribed puberty blockers in Dorset, especially in light of the recent news that the NHS was stopping the prescribing of  puberty blockers. To hear the full interview listen from 7.08 onwards  Interview with Radio Solent