Harry Potter author JK Rowling was extremelt elated when she claimed that every woman who has been "harassed, silenced or bullied" for gender critical views is now safer. This came after a women's rights campaigner won an employment tribunal.
Maya Forstater, a 47-year-old tax expert, who lost her job at a think tank after claiming people cannot change their biological sex, won three fresh claims in an employment tribunal following an appeal.
Ms Forstater's contract at the Centre for Global Development (CGD) was not renewed in March 2019 after she tweeted that biological sex could not be changed.
The tribunal heard she posted "inflammatory and objectionable" tweets about transgender people and opposed government proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow people to identify as the opposite sex.
However, in a judgment handed down last 6 July, employment judge Andrew Glennie said the decision to not offer Ms Forstater a contract or renew a fellowship following her tweets was direct discrimination related to her beliefs.
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