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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...

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”,...

2020 WPUK submission Labour Party Policy Forum: health & social care

This is the submission we made to the 2020 Labour Party Policy Forum on health and social care. We welcome the opportunity to contribute to Labour’s national policy forum...

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...

WPUK Briefing for CEDAW on GRA Reform

This is a briefing note we produced for CEDAW on Sex Self-ID and Reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. It was produced in February 2019. Since both the...

Women have a right to single-sex toilets

WPUK is pleased to hear reports that the Government has asserted the statutory and ethical rights for women to have access to single-sex toilets. The provision of single-sex public...

The ‘Natal female’ question by A Hutchinson and M Midgen

The significant treatment decisions being made are adult decisions. It is simply not possible for a child or adolescent to conceptualise a loss of fertility or sexual pleasure before...

World Toilet Day 2019

The United Nations has declared 19th November as World Toilet Day to draw attention to the woeful lack of access to toilets and good sanitation around the world. According...

Biological sex is not a spectrum: there are only two sexes in humans. An interview with Claire Graham

Subscribe I Woman’s Place UK videos I Insta I Twitter I Take action Biological sex is not a spectrum: follow Claire Graham‘s blog @MRKHVoice. We thank Claire for her...

Sex and gender: the law in the USA

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...

Spousal Consent

WHAT IS 'SPOUSAL CONSENT' AS OUTLINED IN THE MARRIAGE (SAME SEX COUPLES) ACT 2013? The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Schedule 5 and the Marriage and Civil Partnership Act...

The origins of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975

We have pulled together a Twitter thread created by Lisa Mc Kenzie, a feminist and independent policy analyst. Not everyone’s insomnia cure is to pore over Hansard archives but...

Mixed sex toilets in schools

We have been contacted by parents whose children’s schools are introducing mixed sex (often described as ‘gender neutral’ toilets) often removing the girls’ facilities to do so. There have...

The GRA and the Equality Act

Julian Norman is a barrister specialising in Human Rights. This is the text of the talk she gave at a meeting in the House of Lords on 10th October...

Gender neutral toilets don’t work for women

The anonymous author of this blog is an expert on public toilet provision and has been part of a range of committee work on setting government standards on toilet...

Stonewall Report: Disingenuous or Gaslighting?

This is the third blog for WPUK by an anonymous sister working in the Violence Against Women Sector. Dear Sisters and allies, Stonewall report Supporting trans women in domestic...

Evidence of calls to remove single sex exemptions from Equality Act

The announcement by the government that they have no intention of altering the Equality Act 2010 or removing the single sex exemptions is very welcome. Since that statement was...

Media

This page is a work in progress. Bear with us! Fighting sexism isn’t fascism Kiri Tunks Morning Star March 2019 Feminists call for rational debate on gender and the...

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