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EHRC misrepresents the law on collecting sex data
The EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) misrepresents the law on collecting sex data in its statement to the Scottish Government EHRC submission to Scottish Government Sex & Data...
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Keira Bell v Tavistock: Women’s Rights, Healthcare, and the Law
Keira Bell and the history of women’s rights, healthcare and the law In 1976 Loretta Ross sued and won a case against A. H. Robbins, the manufacturer of the...
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The Political Erasure of Sex
We are delighted to be supporting this important new work by Jane Clare Jones. We reproduce here the blurb from the Political Erasure of Sex website: “The Political Erasure...
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Links from #WPUKCensus Chat
These are the links that were posted in the chat during the #WPUKCensus meeting You can watch a recording of the webinar here: Sex in the Census October 2020...
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Women count, count women: WPUK & the Census
The subject of the webinar we are hosting tomorrow, Sunday 18th October, is also that of our first action: accurate recording of sex in the census. Selina Todd will...
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Joint Statement on the UK Government’s responsibility to uphold women’s sex-based rights
We welcome this week’s announcement by the Minister for Women and Equalities. We are pleased that she has struck a balance between improving the process for obtaining a Gender...
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Woman’s Place UK submission on Hate Crime & Public Order (Scotland) Bill
This is the WPUK submission to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill Call for Views. We also submitted a PDF version of the record of all our...
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Making policies Equality Act compliant: Audrey Ludwig
Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. Introduction This blog is loosely based on the talk I gave, with Julian Norman, at the WPUK Women’s Liberation Conference in February...
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Debate is not hate: women won’t be silenced
It is good to see the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the House of Commons Library acknowledge the aggression of the public discussion around proposals to amend...
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Standing on the shoulders of giantesses: working-class women suffragettes: Louise Raw
Louise Raw is a writer and historian with a particular interest in the less-told stories of British history: of women, the working class and BME people. The Suffrage...
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Sex and transgender status in American employment law – the Bostock case: Elizabeth Hungerford
Elizabeth Hungerford is a licensed, though non practicing, attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She identifies as a feminist, lives as a lesbian, is a longtime observer and sometime...
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Legally this is not a ‘trans rights issue’ it’s a ‘sex rights issue’ – a blog about boxes: Audrey Ludwig
Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. The way the issue is portrayed by lobbyists, most politicians, many corporates and the media, is legally wrong. The “trans rights debate”,...
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Labour Campaign for Trans Rights letter to Catherine West MP: WPUK response
On 24th June 2020, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) drafted a letter addressed to Catherine West, Labour MP for Haringey and Wood Green calling on her not...
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Our rights are not yours to give away – Labour must listen to women: Dani Ahrens
Dani Ahrens is a founding member of Brighton Pride and a lifelong left wing activist. On 24th June she tweeted a thread of paragraph by paragraph commentary on an article...
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Allison Bailey: “I am suing Stonewall to stop them policing free speech”
UPDATE: ALLISON BAILEY AWARDED £22,000 IN DISCRIMINATION CASE With permission, we are posting the text from Allison Bailey’s Crowdjustice funding page because the page has been taken down. In...
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Where is the outrage? Male violence against women: Charlotte Delaney
Charlotte Delaney is a writer, a mother and a feminist. Some time ago a close friend’s 18-year-old daughter called her mother to tentatively explain why, in her daughter’s own...
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There’s more than one way to ‘erase’ women – Women’s rights under attack in Victor Orban’s Hungary: Jayne Egerton
Jayne Egerton is a socialist feminist & radio producer. On 28th May Hungary’s Parliament signed a bill into law which ends legal recognition for transgender people. The votes of...
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A fork in the road? Comparing plans for gender recognition reform across the UK
Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie are co-founders of the policy analysis collective MurrayBlackburnMackenzie. Over the weekend, it was reported that the UK Government is scrapping...
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Dear Zarah Sultana: an open letter
On 5th June Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, tweeted screenshots of a letter she had written to Liz Truss MP. In that letter, Ms Sultana wrote about “attempts...
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WPUK response to Sunday Times story on GRA consultation outcome
Today the Sunday Times reports that the government, following consultation, has rejected reform of the Gender Recognition Act to permit sex self-identification. There has been no formal announcement but,...
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