From a Civil Servant
Official training materials are misrepresenting the Equality Act
I received this email today from a whistleblower in the Civil Service.
I hope it's ok to email you. I follow your substack.
I'm a Civil Servant and we've all got to do mandatory diversity and inclusion e-learning. I'm in DWP but the training is on the wider Civil Service Learning platform so as far as I'm aware, all circa half a million of us are required to do it.
I've attached photos, but to summarise, they're actively misrepresenting the Equality Act to include 'gender identity'.
Half a million staff. Who come in to contact with pretty much every member of the UK population - from birth to death and all the taxes in between, you're talking to us. And we're being told that we could be in breach of the Equality Act on the basis of gender identity.
I've no idea if you'll do anything with this, but if you do I'd like to remain anonymous. If I raised this at work I'd be seen as trouble and dismissed as a mere pleb on the ground. But it matters.
And the general public still thinks all of this is about a small minority. It's a war on reality affecting everyone. This is the biggest scandal of generations.
I also work in the public sector and nearly had a stand-up row with our "Head of Diversity and Inlusion" in a training session about the distinction between gender and sex in around 2018.