UK lawyer faces lawsuit for claiming only women menstruate
The Controversy Surrounding the Statement on Menstruation
A lawyer and the United Kingdom government department she works with are facing a lawsuit after she said only women menstruate.
Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley and the Lawsuit
Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley, a lawyer linked to the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, said an unnamed person is suing her over her criticism of gender ideology at work.
In a crowdfunder for her legal bills set up on Tuesday, Wrigley said the lawsuit takes issue with a statement she made during a seminar on “Women and Autism” in which she said that “only women menstruate.”
Multiple Allegations and Backlash
The lawsuit also attacks her for several comments and posts made in the workplace, she said, including her sharing links to an interview with detransitioner Ritchie Herron, sharing the link to a children’s book, “My Body is Me,” and a post on an internal work forum in which she explained why she was critical of gender ideology.
“Some people believe that we all have a gender (sometimes ‘gender identity’) separate from our biological sex; that sex is a spectrum, and that biological sex is an idea that first emerged with white European colonisation. Such beliefs are protected by law,” Wrigley wrote in that post.
“Other people, such as myself, hold that sex is binary (male and female), fundamentally biological and an important category to recognize in language, laws, sport and [the] workplace,” she said.
Wrigley said she works for an “arms-length body” to the government department.
Support and Legal Actions
“The case has been brought by a claimant who is an employee of another arms-length body. The claimant is taking their own employer, the government department and me to court,” she wrote in her crowdfunder.
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Wrigley also chairs a group of human resource professionals critical of gender ideology called the Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN).
The person who filed the lawsuit is also suing over SEEN’s existence, claiming it creates a hostile environment.
SEEN expressed support for Wrigley in a social media post on Wednesday.
Back in October, Wrigley was a signatory of a letter warning about bullying over critiques of gender ideology.
The letter referred to a “small number of active gender ideologues” working for the government.
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