On 7th March, the Forstater v CGD employment tribunal began. For those unaware, this is the next stage in Forstater’s case. In May 2021, the Employment Appeal Tribunal confirmed that Forstater’s gender critical beliefs were ‘worthy of respect in a democratic society’, meaning that they fall within the protections against belief discrimination afforded by the Equality Act 2010. Forstater is now back in the employment tribunal claiming that she lost her job at CGD for expressing her belief that men cannot become women and that sex is immutable. CGD, for their part, are claiming that they did not discriminate based on those beliefs but rather acted because of how she expressed them. CGD’s case is that they “are not obliged, on pain of legal liability, to have their mission undermined by an individual’s communications and behaviours, whether internally or on social media, which cause offence and disruption, contradict its policy of inclusion, and which are reasonably regarded as discriminatory.”
"too permissive" -- says it all. <3
"too permissive" -- says it all. <3