Maya Forstater
In the UK, a woman who lost her job after posting about transgender people on Twitter managed to challenge her dismissal in court, according to the Daily Mail.
On her personal page, 47-year-old Maya Forstater wrote that women are female adults. In this statement, the management of the company where Forstater worked saw incitement to hatred against sexual minorities and fired her. In addition, netizens persecuted the woman for her position.
The woman was supported by British writer and author of the Harry Potter saga J.K. Rowling, who was accused of transphobia over the tweet. After that, the Forstater case received wide publicity: it reached the High Court of England and Wales, which confirmed the right of women to express their opinions and beliefs.
The view that biological sex does not change regardless of gender identity is a protected philosophical belief under equality law. This was ruled by the High Court of England and Wales. Forstater herself emphasized that in a short time she reincarnated from a mother of two sons and a worker to a “soldier in national culture wars.”
Forstater also added that during and after the trials, she received significant support from other women. “I was just fighting for the right of everyone to hold their own opinion,” the woman concluded.
Earlier it was reported that midwives in Britain will be banned from using the word “mother” because of transgender people. Thus, it is proposed to replace “mother”, “maternal” and other cognate words with gender-neutral expressions, such as “parent parent”. The new rules apply not only to communication with patients, but also to publications of a medical organization on social networks and on official websites.
