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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

‘A politically toxic issue’: the legal battles over gender-critical beliefs

Maya Forstater
Maya Forstater won a landmark judgment about her gender-critical beliefs. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

Westminster city council and Social Work England last week became the latest to join a list of organisations – including Arts Council England, a barristers’ chambers and a thinktank – found to have discriminated against a female worker because of their gender-critical beliefs.

The social worker Rachel Meade’s win against the council and her profession’s regulator means she joins a select but growing group of gender-critical feminists who have successfully brought discrimination claims on the basis of their beliefs.

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