Elizabeth Hungerford is an American feminist and anti-transgender activist from the gender critical faction.
In 2011, Hungerford and Cathy Brennan sent a letter to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women with their concerns about certain legal protections based on gender identity and expression, claiming such protections undermine legal protections based on sex.
Background
Elizabeth Ryniker “Bess” Hungerford was born in October 1978. Hungerford earned a law degree from New England Law | Boston in 2005.
Hungerford is a licensed, though non practicing, attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hungerford identifies as a feminist, lives with partner Lisa M. MacPhail, and is “a longtime observer and sometime commenter on matters of sex and gender in American law.”
References
Obituary (2024). Michael J. Hungerford, 1947 – 2024. https://edwardjryanandson.com/tribute/details/2399/Michael-Hungerford/obituary.html
Obituary (February 24, 2022). Linda C. MacPhail, 1954–2022. Lowell Sun https://www.lowellsun.com/obituaries/linda-c-macphail-lowell-ma/
Hungerford, Elizabeth (July 2, 2020). Sex and transgender status in American employment law – the Bostock case. Woman’s Place UK https://womansplaceuk.org/2020/07/02/sex-transgender-status-us-employment-law-bostock/
Hungerford, Elizabeth (August 12, 2013). Sex is Not Gender. Counterpunch https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/02/sex-is-not-gender/
Hungerford, Elizabeth (2012). A feminist critique of “cisgender.” https://liberationcollective.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/a-feminist-critique-of-cisgender1.pdf
Brennan, Cathy; Hungerford, Elizabeth (August 1, 2011). [Response to United Nations] via Sex Matters https://sexnotgender.com/gender-identity-legislation-and-the-erosion-of-sex-based-legal-protections-for-females/ PDF available at https://radicalhubarchives.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/communication_csw_un_brennanhungerford_08012011_.pdf
Media
Paley, Nina; Cohn, Corinna (December 17, 2021). Episode 39: Elizabeth Hungerford. Heterodorx https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-39-elizabeth-hungerford/
Resources
Sex Matters (sexnotgender.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)
Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers (massbbo.org)
- Elizabeth Ryniker Hungerford
- massbbo.org/s/attorney-lookup?fName&lName&loc&bboNumber=663740
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)