FiLiA

"Filia" redirects here. For the Romanian village, see Brăduț. For Cyprian village, see Fyllia.
FiLiA
FormationSeptember 8, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-09-08)
FounderLisa-Marie Taylor and Julian Norman
Founded atLondon
Merger ofResist Porn Culture
Registration no.1163473
Legal statusCharity
Chief Executive Officer
Lisa-Marie Taylor
Revenue (on 31 December 2022)
£301,516 GBP
Websitewww.filia.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Formerly called
Feminism in London

FiLiA is a British gender-critical feminist charity founded in 2015 that describes itself as part of the women's liberation movement.[1][2][3][4][5] FiLiA organizes a conference, held first in 2008 as Feminism in London,[6] in different cities, which it now describes as the "largest annual grassroots feminist conference in Europe".[7] FiLiA is gender-critical, and states that it supports "sex-based rights"[8][7] and opposes what they refer to as "gender ideology."[9] It has lobbied against gender recognition reform[9][10][11] and considers gender self-identification a threat to "women's protected rights."[12] Critics describe it as anti-transgender[13] and transphobic.[14][15][16][17] FiLiA is critical of the sex industry and as a result, it considers pornography harmful.[6] It has campaigned on behalf of women internationally, and has held campaigns in countries such as Iran, Cyprus, and Kenya.[18][19][20][21] It has been described as one of "the most important 'gender critical' groups" alongside Women's Declaration International.[1] FiLiA has faced protests and attempted cancellations, notably in 2023 when the venue Platform attempted to cancel the conference due to alleged transphobia.[2][22] In 2024 FiLiA launched the book The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht,[23][24][25] on what the authors describe as a campaign for "sex-based rights" by J.K. Rowling and others.[26]

  1. ^ a b Beck, Dorothee; Habed, Adriano José; Henninger, Annette (13 November 2023). Blurring Boundaries – 'Anti-Gender' Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses. Verlag Barbara Budrich. p. 29. ISBN 9783847418573. Among the most important 'gender critical' groups [...] are [...] the Women's Declaration International (WDI), formerly known as the Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC), Fair Play for Women (FPFW), Women's Place UK, Filia, Re-sisters, Sex Matters
  2. ^ a b "Platform backs down after bid to cancel gender critical conference". The Herald. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  3. ^ "LGBTQ+ groups protest gender critical conference hosting JK Rowling as a speaker". PinkNews. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
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  7. ^ a b "Police investigate threat to burn venue hosting FiLiA Women's Rights Conference in Cardiff". ITV News. 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  8. ^ "FiLiA Responds to NEU Transphobia Accusations". 22 July 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  9. ^ a b Pape, Madeleine (16 February 2022). "Feminism, Trans Justice, and Speech Rights: A Comparative Perspective". Law and Contemporary Problems. 85 (1): 215–240.
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  11. ^ Thurlow, Claire (2022). "From TERF to gender critical: A telling genealogy?". Sexualities. doi:10.1177/13634607221107827.
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  13. ^ "Lush UK has been donating money to anti-trans organizations". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  14. ^ "FiLiA Glasgow: Activists protest against 'transphobic' event". The Herald. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  15. ^ "Venue forced to U-turn on cancelling 'transphobic' event after legal action threat". The National. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  16. ^ "JK Rowling speaks at FiLiA feminist conference labelled 'transphobic'". The National. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
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  18. ^ Batty, David (2021-12-20). "Women stage global fast to pressure UK over Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
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  23. ^ "Latest news". FiLiA. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  24. ^ Ditum, Sarah (2024-06-16). "How JK Rowling and a feminist fightback turned the tide on trans activism". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  25. ^ "Mark Smith: How Scotland's institutions shut women down". The Herald. 2024-06-08. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  26. ^ Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht, Littlebrown, 2024, ISBN 9781408720707