Pour les droits des femmes du Québec (PDF Québec) is a universalist, non-partisan, citizen feminist organization founded on November 14, 2013, in Montreal. The organization was launched by a broad coalition of Quebec feminist activists committed to defending the rights of women on the basis of biological sex, with the founding assembly drawing over 100 members. Its first president was Michèle Sirois, an anthropologist; Diane Guilbault subsequently served as president until her passing, and the organization continues under women's leadership as a standing organizational principle.
PDF Québec operates across five primary areas of feminist struggle: defence of state secularism (laïcité), critical analysis of gender identity ideology, opposition to surrogacy (grossesse pour autrui), combating violence against women, and advancing the economic rights of women. The organization has made submissions to the Quebec National Assembly on multiple pieces of legislation, including Bill 2 on family law reform, through its Gender Identity Reflection Group (GRIG). PDF Québec argues that replacing the legal category of biological sex with gender self-identification has concrete and harmful consequences for women's sex-based protections, and has maintained a public observatory documenting censorship of gender-critical debate in Quebec.
PDF Québec is a signatory to the Women's Declaration of Sex-Based Rights, the International Consortium on Female Sport position statement, and the international call to halt Hague Conference negotiations on surrogacy regulation. The organization receives provincial funding from the Quebec Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity in support of its general mission, and has approximately 500 to 600 members drawn from across Quebec society. It publishes a monthly newsletter, Le PDF en bref, hosts thematic evenings, and produces educational resources on gender identity, secularism, and women's economic rights.




