Workplaces • Page 6
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The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education
Guest blog post by Professors Alice Sullivan and Judith Suissa
25th March 2021
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Huddersfield University apologises for “transphobic tweets” investigation
Huddersfield university has been forced to apologise and pay compensation to a PhD student after they subjected him to a lengthy disciplinary investigation over “transphobic” tweets. The University investigated Jonny Best for six months after a fellow student made an anonymous complaint about things he had written online. Best,...
7th March 2021
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Allison Bailey’s case against Stonewall will proceed
Allison Bailey is suing Stonewall Diversity Limited to stop them policing free speech. She is a barrister and helped to set up a new organisation for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, the LGB Alliance, to provide an alternative to Stonewall. In retaliation, Stonewall had her investigated by her chambers....
19th February 2021
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Toilets – a place where sex matters
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is undertaking a technical review on increasing accessibility and provision of toilets for men and women. We submitted a 60 page briefing . The submission is long, because the issue of who can use which toilets has become overly complicated and...
19th February 2021
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Sex not Gender
Alan Henness set up the sexnotgender.info website to counter the creeping replacement of the term sex with the term ‘gender’ in areas such as equality monitoring forms and diversity policies. The website includes details of 200 employers’ policies and the problems with them
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Gender Recognition Act reform – evidence submission
We answer the Women and Equalities Select Committee‘s questions and make six recommendations.
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Pronouns: Compulsion and Controversy
This article published by the Legal Feminist collective explores the implications of employers insisting that employees put pronouns into their signature.
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Maya Forstater: Woman loses tribunal over transgender tweets
Analysis by Clive Coleman, Legal affaires correspondent, for BBC News
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Are academics freely able to criticise the idea of ‘gender identity’ in UK universities?
Kathleen Stock compiled testimonies from university employees for this article for Medium. Stories include failures to protect staff from student and public harassment; staff facing complaints for signing letters to newspapers about academic freedom; lost work; and rejected research. Many respondents feared professional consequences.
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Gender critical beliefs, Maya Forstater’s case and trans rights
Daniel Barnett, barrister, for LBC
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Transsexualism: frequently asked questions
Legal advice about employment from the Equal Opportunities Commission, June 2004
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Fortnum v Suffolk County Council
1999 Employment Tribunal
This is a first-instance Employment Tribunal decision so is not a legal precedent.22nd December 1999
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A Guide to the Sex Discrimination (Gender reassignment) Regulations 1999
Department for Education and Employment, April 1999 This Guide provides guidance in relation to the application of the Regulations; and suggests some aspects of good practice for employers and employees on the issues which may be encountered in accommodating an individual for whom gender reassignment grounds exist in the...