Gender-critical belief ‘worthy of respect’

Nicola Laver  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Jul 2021
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Gender-critical belief ‘worthy of respect’

JK Rowling (left) who backed Maya Forstater

A gender-critical belief is worthy of respect in a democratic society and, therefore, a philosophical belief for the purposes of equality laws, a tribunal has ruled.

The President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the appeal of Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who lost her position at the Centre for Global Development after Tweeting her views opposing reform of the Gender Recognition Act, which permits individuals to self-identify as the opposite sex.

Other trans-critical Tweets included ‘male people are not women’, but Forstater said in evidence that she would respect anyone’s self-definition of their gender identity.

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