Women's Declaration International

The Women's Declaration International (WDI), formerly the Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC), is an international advocacy organisation founded in the United Kingdom. WDI has published a Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights,[1] and has developed model legislation to restrict transgender rights that has been used in state legislatures in the United States.[2]

The organisation has been described as gender-critical,[3] anti-trans,[4][5][6][7][8][9] anti-LGBTQ+,[4][10] anti-gender,[11][12] trans-exclusionary,[13] trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF),[14][15] and as a hate group,[16] and in several countries the group has been linked to the far right.[17][18][19] The Southern Poverty Law Center consider it part of an "anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network".[4][10] The largest U.S. feminist organization, the National Organization for Women, described WDI as "anti-trans bigots disguised as feminists."[20]

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  2. ^ Holcomb, Jamie (26 February 2023). "Bills restricting transgender rights circulate across the country". Columbia Missourian. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  3. ^ 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
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  7. ^ Parsons, Vic. "MPs urged by anti-trans 'women's rights' group to eliminate 'transgenderism' and scrap Gender Recognition Act". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
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  9. ^ Bangs, Molly. "What Remains of the Trump Administration's Anti-Human Rights Multilateralism?". Equity Forward. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021. Concerningly, the anti-trans Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) held a parallel event that was permitted to be posted to CSW65's civil society forum. This event featured numerous anti-trans "feminist" speakers and propagated WHRC's exclusionary "Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights."
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  14. ^ Taylor, Brooke. "'Rights aren't a competition': Anti-trans hate is on the rise in Canada, activists and advocates say". CTV News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
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