Civil servants will no longer be labelled “transphobic” for expressing gender-critical beliefs under new guidelines, The Telegraph understands.
Two Whitehall departments have pledged to revise their gender policies following the settlement of an employment tribunal case with Eleanor Frances, a former civil servant.
Ms Frances said she had “no choice but to resign” after facing workplace backlash for her gender-critical views and raised the alarm about a “politicised climate of fear” in Whitehall.
She claimed that an internal “Gender Identity and Intersex” policy was adopted, without proper consultation, following a workplace assessment by Stonewall, a gay rights organisation.
She said the policy’s use of politicised language and concepts – for example, defining “transphobia” as including the “denial/refusal to accept” someone’s gender identity – meant that civil servants were effectively compelled to recognise male people as women.
She brought a case in the employment tribunal against the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) last year for victimisation, protected disclosure detriment, unfair constructive dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of philosophical belief.
The case has now been settled without liability. The departments agreed to pay Ms Frances 116,749, plus associated taxes.
As part of the settlement, the permanent secretaries of the two departments agreed a statement in which they...
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