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NO TO MALE "BREASTFEEDING" A statement addressing attempts to normalise male 'breastfeeding' Recent claims from the Medical Director of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust that 'human milk' produced following 'induced lactation' as 'ideal for infants' is scientifically unproven and constitutes a dangerous escalation in the 'gender' and 'inclusion' narrative. WRN strongly condemns the latest attempts to normalise the notion that males can sustainably produce the nutritional requirements of an infant. They cannot do so and should not be encouraged to try. Breastfeeding is a complex biological process. A mother's milk adapts to the changing needs of her baby, providing essential nutrients and antibodies tailored to support the infant's growth and development. Colostrum is particularly important in preparing a baby’s gut for life outside the womb. Males do not possess the necessary physiological mechanisms to replicate this process. Breastfeeding operates on a supply-and-demand basis. A baby's suckling stimulates milk production in the mother. Allowing a male to put a baby to his nipple can disrupt this delicate balance, affecting the mother's milk supply and compromising the infant's nutritional intake. There exists a disturbing trend among male trans activists who openly use breastfeeding and breast milk fetishism for sexual gratification. This is the most dangerous aspect of a culture that seeks to affirm and validate identities rather than maintaining a sharp focus on the risks to the health and welfare of the baby and the mother. Greater effort should go towards providing support for women who want to breastfeed. It is the responsibility of all media outlets to do due diligence and report only the facts on this topic, and to use clear language that does not obscure the sex of those being reported. There is insufficient evidence to support male breastfeeding and no research on the effects on the infant. NHS Trusts have a duty of care to ensure that all published information and reference sources on induced lactation are based on rigorous scientific evidence and priority must be placed on the well-being of the baby. We appeal to Victoria Atkins MP as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to intervene, and insist that the NHS provides ethical, factual guidance based on evidence from accepted research. Heather Binning Founder, Women’s Rights Network

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Fifteen months ago, while seven months pregnant with my first child, I received a message from a woman I had never met. She had been following an online discussion I had been having with a local politician. That message ultimately led me to join WRN Jersey. The subject of that discussion is one I have returned to many times over the last eighteen months, and one that I believe must continue to be raised. It concerns sex-based rights, safeguarding, and what I believe are unlawful policies that have been upheld by our government. In 2021, policy guidance titled Transgender Guidance for Schools was produced by CYPES (Children, Young People, Education and Skills) in Jersey. Since then, the guidance has expanded significantly, with the latest version published in March 2025. To summarise, this non-statutory guidance sets out how schools and educational settings in Jersey should support children who identify as transgender or non-binary, encouraging what it describes as a whole-school approach to inclusion. My concern is that the guidance not only encourages the teaching and acceptance of the idea that a child can be anything other than the sex they were born, but also that a child has the authority to dictate which pronouns they are referred to by, which toilets they wish to use, the uniform they wear, and which changing facilities they have access to. If this is not, at the very least, a questionable set of decisions approved by the CYPES ministerial team and our former Minister for Children and Families, then the fact that it appears to sit in conflict with the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of biological sex under the Equality Act 2010 should be. In my view, these policies raise profound questions about safeguarding, the rights of other children, and whether schools should be expected to affirm beliefs that conflict with biological reality. Whether Jersey’s guidance will ultimately withstand legal scrutiny remains to be seen, but I believe it reflects a broader ideological shift that deserves public debate. To understand why guidance such as this exists, I think it is necessary to understand the philosophy that increasingly influences many institutions across the Western world: postmodernism. Postmodernism is characterised by scepticism towards objective truth, universal reason and grand narratives. It proposes that reality is socially constructed by language, culture and power structures rather than existing independently of them. It is within this framework that ideas such as being “born in the wrong body”, or self-identification taking precedence over biological sex, become intellectually possible. To explain why I hold such a critical view of this philosophy, I need to tell a more personal story. In 2018, at the age of twenty-six, I admitted myself to Silkworth Lodge, an addiction treatment centre in St Helier, to begin treatment for alcoholism. I spent three months there receiving therapy and counselling for what had become a life-threatening illness. I am grateful to say that my rehabilitation was successful, and I am now approaching eight years of sobriety. Looking back, I don’t believe I recovered simply because I stopped drinking. I recovered because I gradually learned to stop running from reality. One of the most important lessons I took away with me was the difference between reality itself and the stories we tell ourselves in order to avoid discomfort. For years, I found endless explanations for why my life had become unmanageable. It was because I was a woman, I had grown up in a single-parent household, I had experienced sexual abuse, Society was unequal, and life just happened to be treating me unfairly. While some of those things were undeniably true and had shaped me profoundly, they were not the reason nor the excuse for why I continued to drink. The more I focused on external explanations for my unhappiness, the less responsibility I accepted for changing my own life. Recovery began only when I recognised that, however unfair my circumstances had been, I remained responsible for my own health and happiness in life. That experience fundamentally changed how I see the world. It is also why I believe postmodern thinking can be so attractive. If our personal interpretation of reality becomes more important than reality itself, then shared reality begins to give way to individual truth. Increasingly, people are encouraged to define themselves according to their internal feelings and self perception and expect institutions to affirm those identities, even where they conflict with observable reality. This is why I have concerns about transgender ideology as it is currently presented to children. In my view, it shares with postmodern philosophy the assumption that a self determined identity should take precedence over biological reality. I believe teaching children that reality is determined primarily by self-identification risks leaving them ill-equipped to navigate a world that ultimately does not bend to our feelings. We all have to learn, sooner or later, to live life on life’s terms. I chose to drink to escape having to accept reality as it was, and I was always going to lose. If we teach our children that their uncomfortable feelings can be fixed by adopting a false identity then they will lose too. The woman who contacted me fifteen months ago was a member of WRN (Women’s Rights Network) Jersey. She had followed my online discussions and reached out to thank me for speaking publicly about issues that many people felt unable to discuss openly. She invited me to join WRN Jersey, and I accepted without hesitation. WRN Jersey forms part of a wider international network that campaigns for sex-based rights, freedom of expression and the safeguarding of children. Whether people ultimately agree with WRN or not, these debates matter because they concern the kind of society we are creating for the next generation. I joined because I believe children deserve honesty, women deserve sex-based protections where they are necessary, and public policy should be rooted in objective reality rather than ideology.

Since our report on sex crimes in leisure centres was published in December 2025, WRN has documented seven court cases involving voyeurs using mixed-sex swimming pool changing villages to satisfy their revolting urge – they just keep happening with depressing regularity. There are too many victims of this avoidable abuse. And yet despite these convictions, despite the warnings, no-one will take responsibility for the changing room design that puts women and children at risk. In an update to our 2025 report, we present new data on sexual crimes in leisure centres and swimming pools across Northern Ireland provided by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The Results Of a combined total of 13 sexual crimes (rape, sexual assault, voyeurism) in leisure centres in Northern Ireland in 2023, seven (54%) occurred in changing areas. All victims are female, all suspects are male. From the information provided, we also know that: Of the seven sexual crimes that occurred in changing areas, six (86%) took place in mixed-sex changing areas. Crucially, these figures for Northern Ireland closely align with data from police forces in Wales, where of 16 sexual offences recorded in a changing room in 2023, 14 (88%) occurred in a mixed-sex village changing room, and also correlates with The Sunday Times report that 120 of 134 complaints (90%) of sexual assaults / voyeurism in leisure centres and public swimming pools in 2017-18 occurred in mixed-sex facilities. Sexual crimes are not ‘one-off’ events Voyeurism reported at leisure complex. Northern Ireland has its fair share of swimming pool predators: a 2020 news report highlighting the police investigation of a voyeurism incident at Omagh Leisure Complex revealed that there had previously been 12 alleged incidents of sexual misconduct/voyeurism since it opened after re-development in July 2014, five of which involved a child under the age of 16. The re-development of this leisure centre included the installation of ‘Family Friendly Village Changing Rooms’ and has been the main source of complaints about alleged sexual misconduct out of all the main leisure facilities in Tyrone. What do the ‘authorities’ say? There really is no need to look any further for insight or evidence that mixed-sex changing villages are a bad idea. When asked, Sport England, Councils and architects can provide no evidence of Risk Assessments or Equality Impact Assessments; they are therefore culpable for the harms caused by inadequate changing facilities that lead to the harassment, intimidation and abuse of women and children. We have done the work. We have the statistics. We aren’t interested in finger-pointing or hand-waving - we want action. Women’s Rights Network Demands: Sport England immediately withdraws all guidance promoting mixed-sex wet-side facilities as the default option for new and refurbished leisure centres. New facilities provide single-sex changing facilities for swimming pool users. Councils conduct a risk assessment on safety for women and girls before rubber-stamping plans for changing areas in new or refurbished leisure centres. Crime prevention officers are consulted on all design plans, and their expertise is used to help ‘design out’ crime. Existing changing villages must be assessed for the risk of sex crimes and robust mitigation measures be applied together with consideration of cost-effective solutions ensuring a female-only space. The safest changing room is a single-sex changing room.

By Claire Loneragan Way back in 2010 the Home Office officially recognised Pagan police officers, and in the same year Hertfordshire police enhanced their Chaplaincy team to include Christians, Jews, Muslims, Pagans and Humanists. PC Andrew Pardy was then vice-chair of the Pagan Police Association. Fast forward to 2026 and the Police Pagan Association (I promise I’m not making this up) is just one of several officially sanctioned “diversity networks” allowing Inspector Andrew Pardy of Hertfordshire Constabulary (now calling himself “founding chair” of the PPA) to run this association as part of his day job. Can any officer be paid to set up a diversity network then. It seems not. The request for a police SEEN (Sex Equality and Equity Network) was turned down by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) despite SEEN having been approved by numerous other organisations including the civil service. You have to feel sorry, though, for the practicing Heathen (which is how Andrew Pardy self-describes). Between the “radical right” appropriating Heathen and Pagan traditions and iconography, and men like Peter Petrauske and Jack Kemp abusing young girls as part of a witches’ coven in 1970s Cornwall, it’s understandable that a senior police officer would want to ameliorate the reputational damage to fellow Heathens and witches across the UK. To give him his due, Pardy is very open about the links he believes exist between Pagan groups and the far right, including fascists, white supremacists, Pagan militias, the manosphere, neo-Nazis, terrorists and antisemites. He has outlined a worrying and persistent connection between what look to be dangerous groups and the belief system he is promoting. What should we make of it? The NPCC, the Home office, and others appear to take Inspector Pardy’s self-declared expertise seriously. He says he has advised counter terrorism policing, the British Army, and more. But if the threat to public safety and national security is real then a staff diversity network sounds like a very odd way to address it. And if it is not, then the Police Pagan Association needs a lot more scrutiny. It’s all gone a bit Hot Fuzz. But Andrew Pardy’s concerns don’t end there. The Police Pagan Association has this year issued its very own Trans Inclusion Policy. For a document weighing in at more than 3,000 words it is remarkably light on substance, and mostly consists of repeated demands for respect, tolerance, and inclusion of “trans and non-binary” people. The PPA has no sex-based joining criteria, nor does it operate any real-world facilities. So the policy amounts to little more than handwringing about concern and anxiety resulting from the Supreme Court ruling in April 2025, and a requirement to use stated names and pronouns. The Trans Inclusion Policy strongly promotes respect for the law: This policy therefore sets out how the Police Pagan Association will continue to support trans inclusion within the current legal framework. It reflects our commitment to equality, dignity, and safety for all, and our determination to act in a way that is consistent with UK law, policing values, and the principles of mutual respect that underpin our communities. On the other hand, Inspector Pardy’s FaceBook page suggests that the law is an ass and needs to be changed. That it misrepresents the Equality Act 2010 and the Supreme Court ruling: The court’s decision means there are now multiple legal classes of ‘woman’ and ‘man’, each of which invites a different interpretation of the act: cis women, trans women with a GRC, trans women without a GRC, cis men, trans men with a GRC, trans men without a GRC. But inclusion, tolerance and coerced speech is not just a matter of principle for Inspector Pardy (he/him) because the intersection between PPA members and people who have opted out of the sex binary is personal. Meet Evie (Ethan) Pardy (they/them). We can’t know if Evie (Ethan) brought the concept of gender identity into the Pardy household, but they both seem to be heavily invested in anime and trans iconography, not all of which is entirely respectful of other people’s rights. And their father, (assuming Andrew is Evie’s father), for all his calls for respect and tolerance from everyone else, saw fit to change his FaceBook profile picture to this. (Does that “hammer” remind you of something completely different? Maybe it’s just me.) Inspector Pardy’s superiors should perhaps be keeping a closer eye on their police association chairs because it’s not just members of the public who can become radicalised. A self-aware Inspector Pardy, with his MA in Terrorism Security & Radical Right Extremism (from which he appears to have created his own accreditation), would know that extremism can take many forms. He might have asked himself whether a quote from Alok Vaid-Menon in the PPA Trans Inclusion Policy is entirely appropriate. His line manager might be interested in the answer too. Meet Alok Vaid-Menon. The man who infamously said: “There are no princesses. Little girls are also kinky. Your kids aren’t as straight and narrow as you think.” It’s surprisingly easy to undermine all that effort to sanitise the reputation of witches. Suddenly there’s barely a fag paper’s distance between Pagans, Trans Inclusion Policies and men like Peter Petrauske and Jack Kemp. If only Inspector Pardy had known someone who could have done a little detective work. It’s a baffling case. The same year that the Equality Act is passed, the police embrace Heathens and Pagans, and are now funding their support from the public purse. The most senior Heathen in the force has decided to use this public largesse to advocate against women who want to reclaim their sex-based rights. And Chief Constables continue to maintain the fiction that an extremely clear legal judgment is complex and nuanced. What on earth is going on?