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Revision as of 21:10, 19 December 2021
Gender critical beliefs, such as the view that sex is fixed and should not be conflated with gender identity, are protected in law under the Equality Act 2010.
In June 2021 Maya Forstater, who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex, won an appeal against an employment tribunal decision. Maya Forstater, 47, did not have her contract renewed after posting tweets on gender recognition [1]. She lost her original case at a tribunal in 2019, but a High Court judge ruled her "gender-critical" beliefs fell under the Equalities Act [2].
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- ↑ 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
- ↑ . Maya Forstater v CGD Europe UKEAT/0105/20/JOJ, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that gender-critical beliefs, such as the view that sex is fixed and should not be conflated with gender identity, did qualify for protection under the Equality Act 2010 (Equality Act). This means that “gender critical” beliefs are protected “philosophical beliefs” for equality law purposes
