Maya Forstater has won a victory for reality
Spiked by Jo Bartosch
She took on gender ideology – and won. Rulings from employment tribunals rarely make the national news, let alone attract comment from global celebrities. But today’s announcement that tax consultant Maya Forstater has won her case against her employer, the Centre for Global Development (CGD), has sent Twitter into meltdown – provoking jubilation in some quarters and doom-mongering in others. The judgment is not just one in the eye for the censorious trans activists who consider freedom of speech a threat – it is also a victory for the millions of ordinary people who reject the tenets of transgenderism.