Features Archives - Feminist Gender Equality Network

Letter from academics concerned about The Cass Review

Apr 13, 2024 | Campaigns, Features

As a network of expert feminist academics and stakeholder groups who work on gender diversity, we are dismayed at the recommendations of the Cass Review (2024) for NHS provision of gender identity services for children and young people. The Feminist and Gender...

Beyond Gender Wars and Institutional Panics: Recognising Gender Diversity in UK Higher Education

Jan 24, 2024 | Features, Research Groups

By Sally Hines According to the UK’s media, academia is currently plagued by ‘silencing’, ‘no-platforming’, and ‘cancel culture’ amidst the Nation’s ‘gender wars’. Over the last year, barely a week has gone by without a broadsheet newspaper article, radio...

The day has come!

Nov 21, 2023 | Campaigns, Features

Dear FGEN Members, We are delighted to say that, following a time of reflection and reorganisation, FGEN is relaunching! And this time on firmer ground. FGEN has now been formally established as a Community Interest Company (CIC) which means that as we go forward we...

Professor Sally Hines, University of Sheffield ‘Gender Fluidity: Progress and Pushbacks in the UK Today’

Oct 5, 2022 | Features, Research Groups, Sexualities

Drawing on Sally’s past and current research on gender diversity, recognition and social change, the talk will consider both the gains and the losses in understandings and practices of gender fluidity in the contemporary UK. The talk speaks to the current tide...

FGEN Statement on FINA Trans policy update

Jun 20, 2022 | Campaigns, Features, Press Statements

We are both saddened and angered by FINA’s recently published policy update. Regardless of intent, this sends the message that trans and non-binary people, already marginalised across all sports, are not welcome in swimming or other aquatic sports. While the new...

Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) statement on EHRC

Feb 12, 2022 | Features, Press Statements

The Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) are very proud to stand alongside 23 other leading LGBTQIA+, trans-forward and human rights organisations, as part of a coalition led by Stonewall and supported by the Good Law Project, who have been brought together by our...

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