Good luck, Maya! This piece by Dennis Kavanagh in Lesbian and Gay News clears up some of the misconceptions around the case. I hope it’s ok to partially republish here because it’s so important. Myth #1 – Forstater believes you have the right to be rude at work
Women have provably been prevented and obstructed from access to resources (even their own), work opportunities and spaces by men and their behaviour yet where are the court cases on that? They’re so terrified of women and what’s been done to us and our children they purposefully pirate our rightful equal resources to keep us quiet and unable to gain representation or justice and equity. Now the policing of our speech is being enhanced by the legitimising and weaponising the hurt feelings of a bunch of narcissistic overt perverts. The covert perverts, control freaks and creeps will be getting right off on this latest witch-hunt. The more things change the more they stay the same.....As with most of these weirdos activity, win or lose now, they simply can’t win this on facts and predictably misogynists ALWAYS go too far because of arrogance and lack of any boundaries or respect for others regarding their indecent and awful behaviour toward women.Time for a bit of their own medicine here. She can say whatever she likes in my book and after being put through all this nonsense. Outrageous.
Additionally I have no idea why with all these awful views about women why (along with dressing like us and appropriating us and all we have and can do) they’re wanting to get inside us (again much like our babies) apparently irresistibly and most of the time.
Gosh, my heart is beating faster! This could be huge! Sending all the positive vibes, crossed fingers, and prayers I am capable of to Maya Forstater this Friday!
Devastating language—from Maya's appeals brief. The “Claimant” refers of course, to Maya, and the “Tribunal” is the employment court whose idiotic ruling Maya is appealing:
“63.5. Instead of recognising … that the Claimant’s beliefs constitute an important viewpoint on a significant issue of contemporary democratic debate and therefore plainly are worthy of respect in a democratic society, the Tribunal itself wrongly adopted one particular viewpoint from within that debate – to the effect that sex is indistinguishable from expressions of gender identity, that there is a spectrum in sex and that a person can change from one sex to another, or to being of neither sex, and that it is unacceptable in any circumstances to refer to someone other than in accordance with the gender (or lack thereof) with which they identify …
“The Tribunal thereby .. erred by abandoning the position of neutrality required of it as an organ of the state and instead descended into the arena to adjudicate between competing viewpoints on an issue of democratic controversy … “
Doh, said Friday and of course it's Thursday.
Women have provably been prevented and obstructed from access to resources (even their own), work opportunities and spaces by men and their behaviour yet where are the court cases on that? They’re so terrified of women and what’s been done to us and our children they purposefully pirate our rightful equal resources to keep us quiet and unable to gain representation or justice and equity. Now the policing of our speech is being enhanced by the legitimising and weaponising the hurt feelings of a bunch of narcissistic overt perverts. The covert perverts, control freaks and creeps will be getting right off on this latest witch-hunt. The more things change the more they stay the same.....As with most of these weirdos activity, win or lose now, they simply can’t win this on facts and predictably misogynists ALWAYS go too far because of arrogance and lack of any boundaries or respect for others regarding their indecent and awful behaviour toward women.Time for a bit of their own medicine here. She can say whatever she likes in my book and after being put through all this nonsense. Outrageous.
Additionally I have no idea why with all these awful views about women why (along with dressing like us and appropriating us and all we have and can do) they’re wanting to get inside us (again much like our babies) apparently irresistibly and most of the time.
I don’t even want to
Contemplate the judgement not going in Maya’s favour
And how...🤞
Gosh, my heart is beating faster! This could be huge! Sending all the positive vibes, crossed fingers, and prayers I am capable of to Maya Forstater this Friday!
Good job it's not me in the dock 🤣
This must go her and our way now - I have a good feeling about this..
Sick with worry about this going the wrong way but I'm very hopefull that it won't.
Just looking up Gregor Murray the bearded former SNP councillor & misogynist who Maya “misgendered”.
His twitter describes him as “Rev” - does anyone know what he’s a Rev of, or is self-IDing as a prelate?
His back catalogue is quite interesting. Scouts, Children’s Services...
Devastating language—from Maya's appeals brief. The “Claimant” refers of course, to Maya, and the “Tribunal” is the employment court whose idiotic ruling Maya is appealing:
“63.5. Instead of recognising … that the Claimant’s beliefs constitute an important viewpoint on a significant issue of contemporary democratic debate and therefore plainly are worthy of respect in a democratic society, the Tribunal itself wrongly adopted one particular viewpoint from within that debate – to the effect that sex is indistinguishable from expressions of gender identity, that there is a spectrum in sex and that a person can change from one sex to another, or to being of neither sex, and that it is unacceptable in any circumstances to refer to someone other than in accordance with the gender (or lack thereof) with which they identify …
“The Tribunal thereby .. erred by abandoning the position of neutrality required of it as an organ of the state and instead descended into the arena to adjudicate between competing viewpoints on an issue of democratic controversy … “
https://hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/forstater-eat-claimant-skeleton-argument-plus-low-res-pages-1-50.pdf
Fingers crossed.
The quote is from page 40
Round and round we go...