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

Tribunal rulings for gender-critical women have key implications

Bailey and Rowling
Barrister Allison Bailey, pictured with the author JK Rowling, won her discrimination case against her chambers but lost against the charity Stonewall Photograph: Allison Bailey

The decision, on Wednesday, that LGB Alliance founder and barrister Allison Bailey had suffered direct discrimination and victimisation was the second highly anticipated ruling in less than a month – after the Maya Forstater case – concerning gender-critical women in the workplace.

With both women being allies of JK Rowling, and both of their cases turning on their tweets criticising beliefs of supporters of transgender rights, they attracted an unusual amount of attention for employment tribunals and experts say they have important implications.

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