#95 FiLiA meets: Audrey Ludwig - Sex, Gender Identity and UK Equality law

Audrey Ludwig is a discrimination solicitor who, unusually, puts her head above the parapet on social media. She tweets openly as @AudreySuffolk about her subject. As part of Audrey’s commitment to public legal education, she gives her general opinion where she thinks people have got rights under Equality law. More recently, she has done so with regards to the heated gender identity/trans rights versus women’s rights conflict. She tweets politely and tries to assume interest and goodwill from those who correspond with her. Sadly, this is seldom replicated by some who engage with her with hostile condemnations (perhaps known by some women as the “die in a fire scum TERF” brigade).  For this podcast, she joins FiLiA’s Raquel Rosario Sánchez in discussion.

Audrey believes that people who come under all nine protected classes have equality rights, but sometimes those rights conflict and have to be balanced, in accordance with the principles of UK Equality law.

For this, she has been complained about to her employers, to her organisation's funders and to her professional networks, despite these explicitly being her own thoughts and not necessarily shared. Luckily, all the organisations have shown a backbone, but others have not been so fortunate. You can read her two most recent articles on the conflict between sex-based rights and ‘gender identity’ policies here and here.

Or connect through Twitter @AudreySuffolk