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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Miranda Bryant

Woman who lost job after tweeting view on biological sex awarded £100,000

Maya Forstater
Maya Forstater said she felt vindicated by the decision and claimed it was a warning to other organisations. 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 been awarded more than £100,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal.

It comes after an earlier tribunal ruled that Maya Forstater, 49, was unfairly discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs when she did not have her contract or fellowship renewed by the Centre for Global Development (CGD), where she was a visiting fellow.

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