FFS Friday: Kate Coleman of Keep Prisons Single Sex
July 1, 2024
FFS (Female Free Speech) Friday honors women and girls who are speaking out about the harms that “gender identity” poses to women and girls as a sex class. FFS Friday posts are free and shareable. If you would like access to content that delves deeper into the movement to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls and to stop the abolition of sex, please consider a paid subscription.
Apologies that FFS Friday is coming out on a Monday. I was unwell last week and did a terrible job of keeping track of time.
Keep Prisons Single Sex (KPSS) was established in 2020 to campaign for the sex-based rights of women in prison in England & Wales and in Scotland. They also advocated for the importance of sex to the provision of services throughout the criminal justice system (including data collection on offending, risk assessment, and safeguarding). Its Director was Kate Coleman. It expanded to the U.S. in 2021.
KPSS has done extraordinary work protecting incarcerated women, including by persuading the Scottish government to get a man named Adam Graham, who had been convicted of two counts of rape and stated (during trial) that he’s a woman named Isla Bryson, out of the women’s prison. They are one of the few groups to have done so in the U.K.
Earlier this year, KPSS announced that it was shutting its doors on June 30. It has documented all the work it has done and all that it has accomplished in various threads on X/Twitter and in the U.K. forum Mumsnet.
I had the honor of meeting Kate at the annual conference of the LGB Alliance last fall in London. I’m very sorry to see it go, but extremely grateful for everything it has done over the past four years to keep men out of the women’s estate.
Kate, today’s FFS Friday is for you.
I just sent this to the National Woman's Law center. This religious organization that believes women should have no say in their rights. Just like the Taliban.
In your mandate that the opposite sex be allowed in female spaces and sports, do women have a say in any of this, or should these decisions about their rights, identity and safety be made by other people? Do you support democracy, where every voice matters, or is this more of an authoritarian organization? Your desire to change science and definitions is a dangerous precedent to set. You are allowing future people in power to have the right to change definitions and bend science to their ideology. This is dangerous for trans people. If this topic is so important, let's put it on he ballot and let the people decide. Should "women" become an open category that anyone can join in? I support democracy not authoritarianism. You have a lot in common with the Taliban. They also believe that women should have no say in decisions made about their fate.
Another sterling FFS Friday choice! And, Kara, I hope you are feeling much better!