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For Women Scotland
For Women Scotland (FWS) is a Scottish campaign group. It campaigns against reforms allowing individuals to change their recorded sex in legal documents by means of self-declaration. It has been described as an anti-trans group, which was formed in opposition to the trans-inclusive stance of existing women's groups in Scotland.
For Women Scotland has stated its beliefs "that there are only two sexes, that a person’s sex is not a choice, nor can it be changed". It also stated that proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to allow 16 and 17 year olds to change their legal gender through self-identification "would erode women's rights and would violate the Equality Act 2010."
In April 2025, a lengthy legal campaign started by the group resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that "the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex".
The group was established in 2018 in response to the Scottish Government's plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act. The directors of For Women Scotland are Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith. Magdalen Berns was a co-founder. Calder, Berns, Budge, and Smith began making plans for the group in 2017, after having seen each other's posts on Mumsnet.
Legal scholar Sandra Duffy described For Women Scotland in 2025 as an anti-trans group. Criminologist and gender studies scholar Sarah Lamble argued the "gender critical organisations For Women Scotland, and Women & Girls Scotland, were established because existing women’s groups in Scotland are trans inclusive."
Like the gender-critical groups Fair Play for Women and Transgender Trend in England, For Women Scotland formed in response to Stonewall's advocacy for trans rights, since 2015, and the perception[by whom?] that expanded trans rights would erode single-sex spaces.
A theme in an interview study with members of a "Scottish women's cooperative constellation around the issue of GRA reform and its impact on women's sex-based rights", was that organisations like For Women Scotland and Woman and Girls in Scotland were founded because established women's organisations in Scotland, such as Engender, Rape Crisis Scotland, and Zero Tolerance, were "perceived as running scared of the debate around GRA reform or actively working against gender-critical women in their support of the Scottish government's plans".
The group has been described as anti-trans by Pink News, MSNBC, Time Magazine and Gay Times and as trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
For Women Scotland
For Women Scotland (FWS) is a Scottish campaign group. It campaigns against reforms allowing individuals to change their recorded sex in legal documents by means of self-declaration. It has been described as an anti-trans group, which was formed in opposition to the trans-inclusive stance of existing women's groups in Scotland.
For Women Scotland has stated its beliefs "that there are only two sexes, that a person’s sex is not a choice, nor can it be changed". It also stated that proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to allow 16 and 17 year olds to change their legal gender through self-identification "would erode women's rights and would violate the Equality Act 2010."
In April 2025, a lengthy legal campaign started by the group resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that "the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex".
The group was established in 2018 in response to the Scottish Government's plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act. The directors of For Women Scotland are Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith. Magdalen Berns was a co-founder. Calder, Berns, Budge, and Smith began making plans for the group in 2017, after having seen each other's posts on Mumsnet.
Legal scholar Sandra Duffy described For Women Scotland in 2025 as an anti-trans group. Criminologist and gender studies scholar Sarah Lamble argued the "gender critical organisations For Women Scotland, and Women & Girls Scotland, were established because existing women’s groups in Scotland are trans inclusive."
Like the gender-critical groups Fair Play for Women and Transgender Trend in England, For Women Scotland formed in response to Stonewall's advocacy for trans rights, since 2015, and the perception[by whom?] that expanded trans rights would erode single-sex spaces.
A theme in an interview study with members of a "Scottish women's cooperative constellation around the issue of GRA reform and its impact on women's sex-based rights", was that organisations like For Women Scotland and Woman and Girls in Scotland were founded because established women's organisations in Scotland, such as Engender, Rape Crisis Scotland, and Zero Tolerance, were "perceived as running scared of the debate around GRA reform or actively working against gender-critical women in their support of the Scottish government's plans".
The group has been described as anti-trans by Pink News, MSNBC, Time Magazine and Gay Times and as trans-exclusionary radical feminist.