Women's Declaration International

The Women's Declaration International (WDI), formerly the Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC), is a British transphobic hate group with extensive ties to the far right. The Trans Safety Network has described WHRC/WDI as "an extreme anti-trans group" and "a key point of convergence" between transphobic feminism and the far right. It is best known for publishing a transphobic manifesto, titled the "declaration on women's sex-based rights."

History and views
The group was founded by Sheila Jeffreys and Heather Brunskell-Evans in 2019. Brunskell-Evans had been sacked from the Women's Equality Party the previous year as a result of her views on transgender people, while Jeffreys has said trans women are "parasitic."

According to Vice the group has promoted conspiracy theories and false information. The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) has described WHRC as a trojan horse in human rights spaces and argued that WHRC "engages in sensationalism and fear-mongering" to "undermine and water down the progressions of human rights standards that protect the rights of trans and gender non-conforming persons." The Scottish Women's Aid described WHRC as a group "seeking to stigmatise and discriminate against trans women." The Trans Safety Network described WHRC as "an extreme anti-trans group" and "a key point of convergence" between transphobic feminism and the far right.

In December 2021, the group changed its name to "Women's Declaration International."

Declaration on "sex-based rights"
The group is known for publishing a declaration on "sex-based rights" co-authored by Jeffreys and Brunskell-Evans and has called for the "elimination" of "transgenderism" and for the UK to scrap the Gender Recognition Act. Emma Ritch, executive director of the feminist policy organization Engender, said that "when [the declaration] talks about violence against women, freedom of expression, and children's rights it does so entirely through the warped lens of antipathy towards trans people." She further said that WHRC appears to see "rights as a rhetorical device with which to stigmatise minority groups." The declaration was described by the Equality Network as anti-trans, by the Scottish Trans Alliance as focused "almost entirely on denying the reality of trans people's lives" and as transphobic. The Association for Women's Rights in Development said that the "'sex-based' rhetoric misuses concepts of sex and gender to push a deeply discriminatory agenda." Legal scholar and human rights expert Sandra Duffy described the declaration's concept of "sex-based rights" as "a fiction with the pretense of legality." Kathleen Stock, who resigned from her position at the University of Sussex following accusations of transphobia, had been criticized by student protesters for signing WHRC's declaration. WHRC subsequently released a joint statement together with the Women's Liberation Front in support of Stock.

A Green Party of England and Wales motion titled "Developing an intersectional approach to diversity in the Green Party" and introduced by Ani Stafford-Townsend, chair of the party's women's committee, condemned "hard-line anti-trans activists, including signatories of the 'Women's Declaration International,'" linked the group to the far right and called for the party to "suspend signatories of the WHRC/Women's Declaration International."