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

Maya Forstater was discriminated against over gender-critical beliefs, tribunal rules

Maya Forstater
Responding to the decision, Maya Forstater said: ‘My case matters for everyone who believes in the importance of truth and free speech.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

A researcher who lost her job at a thinktank after tweeting that transgender women could not change their biological sex has won her claim that she was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs.

Maya Forstater suffered direct discrimination when the Centre for Global Development (CGD), where she was a visiting fellow, did not renew her contract or fellowship, an employment tribunal found on Wednesday.

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