Rachel Meade’s story is not unlike Allison Bailey’s, with gender Stasi in her workplace reporting her for thought crimes including the sharing of this Substack. From the dedicated Mumsnet thread: A social worker, Rachel Meade, is in the process of challenging Social Work England - their professional regulatory body - as she believes she may have discriminated against her due to gender critical beliefs.
I really think this is the conflation of not believing and discriminating. I deal with trans issues as part of my job, and I wouldn’t dream of insulting/discriminating, not even ‘misgendering’ as part of that. OTOH I don’t believe, I won’t put pronouns on my email and in my private life I can follow/like/share who I damn well please. If discriminating is thinking men shouldn’t use self ID to enter women’s spaces, they are going to have to sack a huge number of people, because even those that don’t say it are probably thinking it. I thought that was protected in law since Forstater? If anyone is being discriminated against here, it’s Rachel.
I wonder what impact it would have if all GC social workers (who are registered with SWE ) en masse referred ourselves to our regulatory body for wrong think. I did try to engage them in a public conversation based on what happened to Rachel Meade asking for clarification regarding what political views SWE considered acceptable/ not acceptable for social workers and was promised I would be invited to become involved in a discussion with them however out of public site they have continued to ignore my correspondence 🤷🏻
"No one is really being punished for disagreement"
"Some people are being punished but they deserve it"
"We must punish everyone who disagrees out loud" <-- You are here
"SAY THE HOLY PRONOUNS OR WE KILL YOU"
I really think this is the conflation of not believing and discriminating. I deal with trans issues as part of my job, and I wouldn’t dream of insulting/discriminating, not even ‘misgendering’ as part of that. OTOH I don’t believe, I won’t put pronouns on my email and in my private life I can follow/like/share who I damn well please. If discriminating is thinking men shouldn’t use self ID to enter women’s spaces, they are going to have to sack a huge number of people, because even those that don’t say it are probably thinking it. I thought that was protected in law since Forstater? If anyone is being discriminated against here, it’s Rachel.
I wish very wealthy women like JKR would fund these cases quietly behind the scenes - who knows maybe she gives something..
Donated. Hope she has a great Lawyer!
I wonder what impact it would have if all GC social workers (who are registered with SWE ) en masse referred ourselves to our regulatory body for wrong think. I did try to engage them in a public conversation based on what happened to Rachel Meade asking for clarification regarding what political views SWE considered acceptable/ not acceptable for social workers and was promised I would be invited to become involved in a discussion with them however out of public site they have continued to ignore my correspondence 🤷🏻