This ruling changes the environment. This UK ruling states that gender critical beliefs are also protected beliefs under law in the the UK. In other words, you can’t be fired from your job for stating the blindly obvious *FACT* that human beings cannot change their sex. This is a huge victory for women, free speech, and of course Ms. Forstater.
Thank you Ms. Forstater for having enough resilience and courage to stand up for women and their rights.
“Ms Forstater, from St Albans in Hertfordshire, did not have her contract renewed at the think tank Center for Global Development (CGD) in March 2019, after posting a series of tweets questioning government plans – which were later scrapped – to let people declare their own gender.
She claimed she was discriminated against because of her beliefs, which include “that sex is immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity”.
In the initial tribunal employment judge James Tayler said that her approach was “not worthy of respect in a democratic society”.
He concluded that Ms Forstater was “absolutist” in her view and said she was not entitled to ignore the rights of a transgender person and the “enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering”.
But the Honourable Mr Justice Choudhury said her “gender-critical beliefs” did fall under the Equalities Act as they “did not seek to destroy the rights of trans persons”.
Ms Forstater said she was “delighted to have been vindicated” but CGD said the decision was a “step backwards for inclusivity and equality for all”.
In a video statement, Ms Forstater said: “I’m proud of the role I’ve played in clarifying the law and encouraging more people to speak up”.
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June 10, 2021 at 2:11 pm
tildeb
Wow. Courageous judge, too. This is real Good News!
Of course, any impediment to the unencumbered rise of the totalitarian ‘progressive’ religion of the Woke will be seen as a step ‘backwards (that is to say, forwards) for inclusivity (that is to say, mandatory division into Us and Them, the Elect versus the Deplorable) and equality for all (that is to say, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others and we want the law to support that equalizing inequality).
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June 11, 2021 at 1:33 pm
Infidel753
and the “enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering”
I’ve never understood this. What “enormous pain”? If somebody referred to me as being female, even though I’m not, the most I’d feel would be momentary mild puzzlement, not “enormous pain”. If people get so upset over something so innocuous, even if they believe it’s inaccurate, maybe they’re the ones with the problem. A society which punishes people for saying the equivalent of 2+2=4, because somebody gets upset about it, is a society that has gone insane.
In the meantime, their side routinely calls anybody who disagrees with them Nazis and bigots and whatnot — epithets which genuinely are offensive. No concern about inflicting “enormous pain” there, apparently.
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