Take it up with HR
News outlets so far seem to be ignoring the Allison Bailey win. Personnel Today is understandably interested:
The barrister Allison Bailey has today won her case for discrimination at tribunal after she claimed her employer victimised her for upholding a gender critical belief.
She had launched claims against Garden Court Chambers and Stonewall after the charity complained to her employer about her involvement in the LGB Alliance Group, of which she is a co-founder. LGB Alliance opposes the view held by Stonewall that transgender women are women in the eyes of the law.
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The tribunal, which began in April, found that by upholding the complaint against her, GCC had victimised her for a protected act – the fact she had tweeted about the “cotton ceiling”, the idea that men who identify as trans lesbians face difficulties being accepted as lesbians, and her belief that Stonewall was driving a “dangerous” agenda around gender self-identification.
The cotton ceiling refers to the idea that men who identify as trans lesbians face lesbians saying no to sex. Not just general “difficulties being accepted” but specifically difficulties getting lesbians to say yes to the sex.
The tribunal agreed on the complaint raised by Bailey that as a consequence of being a gender critical feminist, she was discriminated against and victimised by her colleagues.
It did not find that the complaint against Stonewall had satisfied the legal test of “instructing, causing or influencing” the discrimination she experienced.
Bailey added that she was “disappointed” not to have succeeded in this element of the claim.
“It never occurred to me as I was building my career that the organisation which would prove my biggest obstacle would be a charity set up ostensibly to protect people like me. Stonewall declared there were ‘good lesbians’ and ‘bad lesbians’, the latter including any lesbian that dared to hold that sex is real and immutable and the crucial criteria for being same-sex attracted,” she said.
It really is extraordinary, you know – the chief organization for lesbians and gays trying to bully lesbians and gays into having heterosexual sex on the grounds that people are whatever sex they say they are.
Has there been bullying of gays to have sex with transmen? If so, is it the transmen doing the bullying? I hadn’t heard of that, but I get a lot of my trans news here and from sites you link, so maybe I missed it.
Hahahahano. Probably for the same reason you don’t hear much about women assaulting men in the street or men fearing to go out alone after dark because women might rape them.
Bad lesbians. And the only way to fix bad lesbians, per Stonewall, is them having sex they don’t want with men.
This is corrective rape.
Stonewall supports corrective rape of lesbians.
Who is next? Who will Stonewall prescribe rape for next?
Stonewall is going to find they are advising far fewer people after this : “follow our advice at your own risk legally” is not really a great advertising slogan.
Ms. Bailey’s chambers Garden Court are saying they might appeal : this is super bad for their reputation, too. One would have thought someone might have said “Is doing this to a black lesbian a really good look for us?” at the start, but there’s something about trans-activism that makes people shoot first, ask questions later.
I don’t think they would win an appeal: the damages are for hurt feelings- they can hardly say “oh, she was fine with it, really”.
A great outcome after a really stressful time for Ms.Bailey.
Yes there’s something about trans activism or ideology or both that makes people think trans trumps EVERYTHING else. I doubt I will ever understand why people think that.
Yes. Gay men have been subjected to demands that they have sex with “transmen” or else be decried as bigots. This has been dubbed “boxer ceiling” as a parallel to “cotton ceiling”.
Woke Homophobia: Anti-Gay Hatred & Boxer Ceiling Abuse from Trans Activists & Gender-Identity Ideologues
I certainly remember Lil Nas X stirring the hornets’ nest by insisting that gay men prefer gentleman sausages to lady gardens.
And, of course, straight people are pressured to play at the beast with two backs, hence “superstraight”.