Thread by @MForstater

Are gender critical beliefs views a protected belief?

Robin Moira White, lawyer, trans rights expert and commentator on my case wrote in 2021 that people with GC beliefs are not protected against discrimination if they voice them at work.

independent.co.uk/voices/trans-r…

It turned out that was wrong.

So following the EAT judgment White & Newbiggin rewrote the chapter in their book to recognise that a belief can only be excluded from protection if it akin to Naziism or totalitarianism in destroying others' rights.

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Their re-drafted chapter appears to be the source of the often cited view that it is only holding the belief, not manifesting it, that is protected.

Of course that was also wrong.

This is not what Mr Justice Choudhury said at para 78 - at all. What he said is that manifestation may justifiably be restricted in some circumstances.

In 2023 Robin says again that my beliefs are not protected against discrimination.

This time Robin says my beliefs have changed, and are no longer worthy of respect, even if they were before.

Here are my "absolutist" beliefs as I expressed them in my witness statement in 2019.

The EAT and the tribunal also had a good look at the statement in the FairPlay for Women booklet and found nothing there that was not "worthy of respect in a democratic society"

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Robin asserts that my beliefs have changed from these to something that would now fail Grainger V - i.e. be akin to Naziism.

This is a really awful thing to say about someone.

Robin says that Sex Matters is "evil" and a "hate group"

But Robin is also willing to speak on a panel with Sex Matters' chair Naomi in Parliament 🤨

(If you were asked to be on a panel with someone who you is evil and the representative of a "hate group" wouldn't you alert people?)

So are gender critical views like mine and Naomi's worthy of respect or so hateful those holding them can be outcast from society?

You could look for answers in The Practical Guide to Transgender Law.

But it has not been updated since November 2021 🤷‍♀️