The law and legal rights
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WPUK Statement on the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon
In voting through gender self-ID, the Scottish parliament has wilfully ignored the evidence of women and girls, as well as the advice of legal experts and advocates for women’s...
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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 statement makes clear the absolute...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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