{"id":2203611,"date":"2024-03-21T17:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-lawyer-sued-after-saying-only-women-menstruate\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:26:19","slug":"u-k-lawyer-sued-after-saying-only-women-menstruate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-lawyer-sued-after-saying-only-women-menstruate\/","title":{"rendered":"UK lawyer faces lawsuit for claiming only women menstruate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-k-lawyer-sued-after-saying-only-women-menstruate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2203611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Controversy Surrounding the Statement on Menstruation<\/h2>\n<p>A lawyer and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Kingdom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-president-solarwinds-hack-biggest-ever\/\" title=\"Microsoft President: SolarWinds hack biggest ever\">government department<\/a> she works \u2062with are facing a lawsuit after she said only women menstruate.<\/p>\n<h3>Elspeth Duemmer\u2062 Wrigley \u200cand the Lawsuit<\/h3>\n<p>Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley, a lawyer linked to the Department for\u2062 Environment Food &#038; Rural Affairs, said \u200ban unnamed person\u2063 is suing her over her criticism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-teacher-sues-school-board-after-being-fired-he-refused-to-compromise-on-trans-pronouns\/\" title=\"Flashback: Teacher Sues School Board After Being Fired \u2013 He Refused To Compromise on Trans Pronouns\">gender ideology<\/a> at work.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdjustice.com\/case\/seen-chair-sued\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crowdfunder<\/a> for her legal bills set \u2063up on Tuesday, Wrigley said the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-lawsuit-filed-challenging-legality-of-bidens-student-debt-bailout\/\" title=\"First Lawsuit Filed Challenging Legality of Biden's Student Debt Bailout\">lawsuit takes issue<\/a> with \u2064a \u2062statement she made during a seminar on \u201cWomen and \u200cAutism\u201d in which \u200dshe said that \u201conly women menstruate.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Multiple Allegations and Backlash<\/h3>\n<p>The lawsuit also attacks\u200c her for several comments and posts made \u2064in \u200bthe workplace, she said, including\u200d her sharing links to an interview with detransitioner Ritchie Herron, sharing the link to a \u200bchildren\u2019s book, \u201cMy Body is Me,\u201d and a post on an internal\u2063 work forum in \u200bwhich she explained why she was critical of gender ideology.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSome \u200bpeople believe that \u200bwe \u200ball\u200d have a gender (sometimes \u2018gender identity\u2019) separate from our biological sex; that sex is a spectrum, and that biological sex is an idea that first \u2062emerged with white European colonisation. \u200bSuch beliefs are protected by law,\u201d Wrigley wrote in that post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther \u2062people, such as myself, hold \u200bthat sex is\u2063 binary (male and female), fundamentally biological and an important \u2063category to recognize in language, laws, sport and [the] workplace,\u201d\u200b she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wrigley said \u2064she works for an \u201carms-length body\u201d to the government department.<\/p>\n<h3>Support and Legal Actions<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe case has been brought by a claimant who is an employee of another arms-length body. The claimant\u200d is taking their own employer, the government department and me to court,\u201d she wrote in her crowdfunder.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wrigley also chairs a group of human resource professionals critical of gender\u2063 ideology called the \u200cSex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN).<\/p>\n<p>The person\u200c who filed the lawsuit is also suing over SEEN&#8217;s existence, claiming it creates a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/free-speech-organization-sues-university-of-central-florida-for-discriminatory-speech-policies\/\" title=\"Free Speech Organization Sues University of Central Florida For \u2018Discriminatory\u2019 Speech Policies\">hostile environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SEEN \u200bexpressed support for Wrigley in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media post<\/a> \u200don Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October, Wrigley was a signatory of a letter\u2063 warning about bullying \u2064over critiques of gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The letter referred to a \u201csmall number of active gender ideologues\u201d working for the government.<\/p>\n<div id=\"gmail-paywall-portal-article-footer\">\n<div class=\"gmail-sc-gqjmRU gmail-cXrbQg\">\n<div class=\"gmail-sc-dnqmqq gmail-fmwZGt\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Wrigley said she has filed an official response to the claims against her, and the next step is a March 25 preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Supporters have donated over $50,000 for her legal defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit targets a UK lawyer and a government department over her statement that only women menstruate. Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley, associated with the Department for Environment Food &amp; Rural Affairs, faces legal action for criticizing gender ideology at work. 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