Award follows tribunal ruling that Maya Forstater was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs
A researcher who lost her job at a thinktank after tweeting that transgender women could not change their biological sex has been awarded more than 100,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal.
It comes after an earlier tribunal ruled that Maya Forstater, 49, was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs when she did not have her contract or fellowship renewed by the Centre for Global Development (CGD), where she was a visiting fellow.
The tax expert said she felt vindicated by the decision and claimed it was a warning to other organisations.
“My case has exposed institutionalised discrimination against, and the routine abuse and smearing of, people with perfectly ordinary beliefs about the material reality of sex,” she said.
“A bigot is someone who is prejudiced or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group. I, and many other people with gender-critical beliefs, have been the victims, not the perpetrators, of discrimination fuelled by bigotry.”
Her tweets, examined in the earlier tribunal, included one in which she wrote: “A man’s internal feeling that he is a woman has no basis in material reality.” She also compared self-identifying trans women to Rachel Dolezal, a white American woman who misrepresented herself as black, and described it as “a feeling in their...
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