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For Women Scot Vs The Scottish Ministers (2023)

For Women Scot Vs The Scottish Ministers October 2023 We share the disappointment of FWS on the outcome of their case Vs. The Scottish Ministers (2023) in the ruling...

Abortion, Criminal Law & Crisis Pregnancies

Healthcare is a fundamental human right, yet as women we know our bodies have long been viewed as the property of men and of the state. This patriarchal notion...

Attorney General affirms sex-based rights

Attorney General affirms sex-based rights Woman’s Place UK welcomes the clarifications on sex-based rights in the Equality Act (2010) made in the Attorney General’s speech to Policy Exchange. The...

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...

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”,...

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...

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...

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...

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...