Last year J K Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, was at the centre of a storm over her views on transgender issues. She had pointed out that “people who.
By Michael Cross2021-06-10T11:47:00+01:00
An employment tribunal ruling that the discussion of gender identity beliefs is not worthy of respect in a democratic society was today overturned in a high profile appeal in which the Equality and Human Rights Commission intervened.
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Maya Forstater v CGD Europe and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled in favour of a tax expert who said she had lost her job at development thinktank Center for Global Development (CGD) after posting tweets questioning government plans to let people declare their own gender. In 2019 the tribunal found Forstater to be absolutist in her view, saying she was not entitled to ignore the rights of a transgender person and the enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering .
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Last week (3 June), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled on the case of Mrs F Mercer versus Alternative Future Group (AFG), essentially agreeing with the original tribunal, but highlighting that there was a conflict between Section 146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act and Article 11, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Mercer is an active support worker at the health and social care charity AFG.