Materialist Left @materialistleft

A potted history of how “Trans Rights are Human Rights #NoDebate” campaign came about, & with it, the silencing of left wing women & grassroots orgs advocating for an open discussion around self ID and the impact on women’s rights.#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs kaygreen.blog/2026/07/16/lik…

Amnesty has just produced a target list of ‘anti-rights groups’. It calls this set ‘gender critical’ groups. Funnily enough, almost all the groups on that list are either women’s or lesbian and gay groups. kaygreen.blog/2026/07/10/amn…

“Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/confer…

The Equality Act is under threat from all sides. We must defend it. #SexMatters #SexNotGender substack.com/@materialistle…

So private NHS companies have made £1.6 BILLION in profits over the last two years. All while patients suffer huge waiting times and staff go underpaid. It's time to kick profiteers out of our health system. For a fully-funded, fully-public NHS!

‘Freedom of Expression and the right for women to express their own views in our branches must be made an absolute principle.’#StopSilencingSocialistFeminists

Materialist Left @materialistleft

7 months ago

Statement from Valerie Coultas on the circumstances of her resignation from Lambeth Your Party. open.substack.com/pub/materialis…

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Your Party Materialist Left Statement in Solidarity with Ameen Hadi open.substack.com/pub/materialis…

Statement from Valerie Coultas on the circumstances of her resignation from Lambeth Your Party. open.substack.com/pub/materialis…

In the run up to the publication of my next book, Sex, Gender Identity and the Law, Keble College and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford have put together some short videos addressing some of the key themes of the book. The first one was published today:

Jennifer Melle Reinstated: Women Are Pushing Back and Winning The Law Is Clear. So, Why Did It Take Nine Months to Reinstate a Nurse Who Told the Truth? NHS Suspends Nurse for Misgendering: The Real Cost of Woke Ideology in Healthcare When did it become an act of courage for a nurse to call a man a man? When did stating biological reality transform from common sense into career-ending heresy? And when, precisely, did the institutions claiming to protect working-class women decide their dignity was worth less than an ideological abstraction? The Supreme Court answered these questions in April 2025. Five judges, unanimous, declared what everyone from your grandmother to the bloke down the pub already knew: in the Equality Act 2010, “woman” means biological woman. “Man” means biological man. The law, at least, still recognises material reality. Jennifer Melle has just been reinstated. After nine months suspended on full pay. After being escorted from her workplace. After a disciplinary hearing that quietly concluded there was no evidence the patient had been identified. After a national campaign, political intervention, and tens of thousands of petition signatures. She won. But she never should have had to fight. Her case, alongside Sandie Peggie’s partial tribunal victory and the Darlington Eight’s landmark win, exposes something rotten at the heart of our public institutions. This is not about compassion, inclusion, or progressive values. This is about power: who wields it, who benefits from it, and who pays the price when working-class women dare to say “no” to those who demand their compliance. Read more, 👉 labourheartlands.com/jennifer-melle… #JenniferMelle #NHS

The way Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust have treated Jennifer Melle is even worse than we knew. First, they offered her absolutely no support for having been the victim of racial ab*se by a gigantic convicted p*edophile who tried to headbutt her, instead launching straight into attacking her for "misgendering" him. Then they moved her & isolated her, not allowing her to mix with the other nurses in the staff room, forcing her to often eat lunch alone on a grassy area outside. All of this understandably took a toll, & Jennifer was signed off sick. When she returned to work, they had put someone else in her role & told her she would need to reapply, resulting in Jennifer having to take a job at a lower nursing grade just to keep working. '“I felt like I was going through torture,” she said.' I am not surprised, what they did to her despicable. I don't care that it is public money, I hope the Trust have to compensate Jennifer very handsomely, & that they learn that they can NEVER treat another nurse like this again.

Those who defend surrogacy never comment on the baby’s needs or feelings. Why would they? It’s just the product, after all. 😭

Lydia Kravitz @LadyBleach

9 months ago

@Advo_Katy I don’t have an issue with surrogacy so long as all parties involved are consenting and compensated because pregnancy can cost a lot

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Glad to see @bmj_latest covering the growing concern from across medicine and beyond about the NHS puberty blocker trial. bmj.com/content/392/bm…

NHS Fife secrecy scandal as it blocks dozens of Sandie Peggie information requests scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/…

Surrogacy is a form of human trafficking and it’s time we address it as such.

I spoke to the BBC about the recent employment tribunal decisions in Peggie v NHS Fife and Hutchinson v Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, two cases which found sex-based harassment arising from permitting trans women to use female-only changing rooms. This is a very detailed long-read that provides a good overview of the cases: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Eleven pages, four months and counting… If govt is waiting for judgment in the Good Law Project JR against the EHRC’s interim update, I wonder if they intend to wait until all avenues of appeal in that case have been exhausted. That could be 3+ years down the road..../1

Liberal Voice for Women @LibVoice4Women

9 months ago

"The Minister, supposedly for Women, has run out of road, with her procrastination, excuses and flannelling the object of ridicule." Superb question from @SarahLudford today. (Disingenuous response from the government)

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Dear Trans Rights Movement, You could have focussed on anti-discrimination. You could have focussed on resources. You could have campaigned for services that you needed. You could have paid for research into medical treatment and the best outcomes.

Very interesting article by Naomi Cunningham. No doubt it will offend some but political free speech is protected for a reason open.substack.com/pub/naomicunni…