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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah

Academics who sued union after being called transphobic lose tribunal case

view of an Edinburgh University building
UCU’s Edinburgh branch asked Edinburgh University’s principal to halt a screening of Adult Human Female in 2022 and denounced it as transphobic hate. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

Two academics who sued their own union after being called 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 over a film they had directed, Adult Human Female, which UCU said was an attack on trans identity.

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