Trans rights activist on panel judging Christian ‘sacked by school over views on gender’

Jun 19, 2022 by

by Michael Powell, Mail+:

A TRANS rights campaigner who led calls to scrap women-only toilets is on a judging panel hearing the case of a Christian teaching assistant sacked for speaking out against lessons in which primary school children learn they can change gender.

Edward Lord, a well-known LGBT activist, has been chosen to advise a tribunal judge during an appeal by Kristie Higgs, who lost her job as a school pastoral assistant after sharing a petition on her Facebook page against extending sex and relationship education.Lawyers for Mrs Higgs have applied for the 50-year-old to be removed from the panel amid concerns that she will not get a fair hearing when the case is heard in London next week.

Lord, who uses the pronouns ‘they, them and their’, is refusing to step down. A Liberal Democrat politician who identifies as ‘non-binary’, Lord has campaigned in favour of allowing transgender women to use female-only spaces.

As an elected member of the City of London Corporation, Lord was head of an equality committee that changed rules to allow transgender swimmers full access to Hampstead Heath’s ladies’ pond in 2019. Lord has been vocal on Twitter about allowing trans women to use female-only spaces, yet attracted claims of hypocrisy when it emerged the activist was a Freemason, a men-only organisation.

Lord was awarded an OBE in 2013 and has sat as a magistrate in London since 2002 . They became a lay member on the employment tribunal circuit last year. It is in that role that Lord will able to question witnesses and advise Tribunal Appeal Judge Mrs Justice Eady on whether Mrs Higgs, 45, was unfairly dismissed in 2018 by Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire.

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