Stonewall’s guidance on gender doesn’t stand up in law
by Suzanne Moore, Telegraph:
Groupthink and negligence let a bullying culture thrive in the workplace, but now the tide is finally starting to turn.
There is a person I know who works in a large university. This person is liberal and has spent years trying to improve the educational opportunities of those who have had a hard start in life. This person has led a life of outstanding public service. This person is a member of a secret WhatsApp group because this person and their colleagues cannot have an open conversation about what is going on in their workplace.
This person uses the pronouns she/her because this is required of her and this person is, of course, a woman. A composite of many I know. Her boss uses the pronouns he/him because he is, in fact, a man. There is no doubt about that, but performative pronouns are a signal that you have signed up to the idea that gender identity is deeply significant. This is the rigmarole to which most of our public institutions still capitulate.
Many people I know cannot be “out” about their gender critical beliefs in their workplaces because those in charge still do not know the difference between what Stonewall says is the way to do things and the actual law. It is an act of gross negligence and groupthink that the leaders of our institutions do not care to inform themselves of the difference between the two. But they need to, sharpish.
If the Cass Review broke the medical dam, then the many cases heard in employment tribunals are breaking the legal one. You are entitled to believe that men can be women and therefore enter any space that previously excluded them, from toilets to prison, to refuges. But I am allowed to believe that this is not so.
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