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Evening Standard
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George Lithgow

Academics ‘branded transphobic’ by own union have discrimination claims rejected

All of their claims were rejected (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

Two academics who sued their own union for branding them transphobic have had their discrimination claims rejected by an employment tribunal.

Dr Deirdre O’Neill, a lecturer at Hertfordshire University, and Michael Wayne, a professor at Brunel University, were criticised by the University and College Union (UCU) which condemned a film as an attack on trans identity.

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