“A lot of people would find this an entirely reasonable belief.”Īnd Baroness Falkner is not alone. “Someone can believe that people who self identify as a different sex are not the different sex that they self identify,” she told the Times. Forstater took an apparently morally – and legally – indefensible position over the UK Government’s move to reform the Gender Recognition Act in favour of ‘gender identity’ by tweeting her belief that “men cannot change into women.” How very dare she!īaroness Falkner of Margravine, the incoming head of the EHRC, has made it clear that such a legal assault on freedom of belief is wrong and that the Forstater judge had incorrectly interpreted the law. So what were those views? The wholesale promotion of paedophilia? White supremacy? Cream before jam on scones?

In a shocking display of legal overreach, the judge at her ensuing employment tribunal told Forstater that her views were “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.” This is the power of the new gender gestapo who saw to it that Maya Forstater was sacked from her job as a tax expert at the think tank Center for Global Development for holding what her employer labelled “gender critical” views. Also on rt.com Kids of 2 becoming trans, young girls being taught to bind their breasts: Symptoms of an LGBTQ+ crusade that’s out of control

It’s an alarming sign of the times that the first foray into public debate of the UK’s new head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been to defend an individual’s right to think what they like without fear of being punished for those thoughts.Īt the centre of the case is the belief, trumpeted by LGBTQ organisations such as Stonewall, that ‘trans women are women’ and if you don’t agree with that view then you are a transphobe, a misogynist, and must be simultaneously shut down and punished. Philosopher Kathleen Stock, in her new book ‘Material Girls’, fights back against the ‘immersed fiction’ of trans activists who ignore reality and push gender identity theory to the detriment of women and girls.

Material Girls by Kathleen Stock