In the last few years, the right of medical professionals to conscientiously object to procedures which are destructive or potentially destructive of life has been under persistent attack and even eroded in some cases.

On the 13th of December 2017, UKIP AM Gareth Bennett was barred from speaking in Senedd debates in 2018 following a speech about transgender rights.

Open criticism of transgender ideology is apparently not permitted in the Welsh Assembly

The Presiding Officer, Elin Jones, gagged Mr Bennett throughout 2018 until he apologises saying that “Some of his comments were particularly hateful to the transgender community.”

What assembly rules did Mr Bennett break? We have not been told.

It seems his crime was offending the temperament of Ms Jones and nothing more.

The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights has launched an inquiry into freedom of speech in universities, and they want written submissions.

CitizenGO has been following the decline of freedom of speech at universities and in wider society closely for the last few years. We’ve even written a few petitions on it and have been supportive of Jo Johnson MP’s efforts to ensure that free speech remains free at university.

This petitions details the CitizenGO response to the Joint Committeee.

QUALIFIED VICTORY UPDATE (Dec. 11, 2017) -

Only two weeks after CitizenGO launched a campaign, specifically asking the Standards in Public Office commission (SIPO) to investigate Amnesty Ireland's acceptance of a large, foreign donation (€137,000) from George Soros' Open Society Foundations (and, also, tell them to return it!), SIPO have, in fact, instructed Amnesty Ireland to return the donation, as it is in breach of the law.

Late last month, Girlguiding UK released their latest guidance titled “Supporting Trans Members”. This guidance explicitly permits boys, who identify as girls, to use the same toilets, changing facilities and even showers as girls.

Furthermore, the guidance also explicitly advises its leaders not to inform parents that “a trans person” (a man who thinks he is a woman) will be attending a residential event with their daughters.

Girlguiding UK has completely brought into transgender ideology and the accompanying ideas that we must all endorse a child’s gender confusion.

In recent months, we have seen the prolife voice being stifled on multiple fronts, whether at universities, in the media or, most recently, outside abortion centres. 

In response to the vote by Ealing and Portsmouth Council to ‘take action’ on prayer vigils outside of Marie Stopes in Ealing, the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has said that she will launch a review into the prolife presence outside of abortion centres.

Earlier this year, the Government in Westminster said that the NHS would be providing free abortions in England at the expense of the British taxpayer for residents from Northern Ireland. Abortion remains a devolved issue in Northern Ireland so it is beyond the jurisdiction of the Government in Westminster to legislate on this issue in the Province.

The Scottish Government, without consulting the Scottish people or subjecting these proposals to Parliamentary scrutiny, have made one of the most significant policy changes in abortion practice since 1967 - anno

Earlier this week, the Church of England issued updated guidance – Valuing All God’s Children – on “homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying” in schools.

While rightly highlighting the equal dignity that all children have regardless of any other considerations, and their equal right to education, the document is nothing short of a Trojan Horse – it is a wholesale, entirely uncritical, endorsement of transgender ideology.

On Wednesday 1st November at the St John’s College, University of Oxford, a pro-life student group, Oxford Students For Life (OSFL), attempted to host a discussion about the abortion debate in Ireland.

The Women’s Campaign (WomCam), a body of the Students’ Union, intent on silencing differing perspectives, disrupted the gathering by shouting, chanting and obstructing to the extent that the event was unable to continue for almost an hour.

For all the details click here.