Maya Forstater's appeal skeleton

[Mollyollydolly]

Saw this on twitter and thought it deserved a thread to itself.

As Jason Braler (employment lawyer) says on twitter "It's more a thesis than a traditional skeleton, but it certainly drives home the points from every conceivable angle.
It may also be the only ever EAT skeleton to have 4 references to Orwell"

hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/forstater-eat-claimant-skeleton-argument-plus-low-res-pages-1-50.pdf

To clarify before we share this around, is this something that Maya and her legal team are happy to be shared?

Maya has tweeted it herself Cwenthryth, it's her pinned tweet. All good :)

Cool just checking :-)

It’s long!

Yes. Happy for it to be read and shared and used.

The judgment won't be for months, and in the meantime it might come in handy (share it with your HR department )

On Tuesday morning we will publish the "Skeleton Plus" which has all the background documents and legal authorities attached and hyperlinked. It is a monster of a document!

This is groundbreaking stuff.

Could only skim read I'm afraid but it looks on the surface that a proper shit hot lawyer is standing with Maya and I'm really proud to have been one of many of us to have "dug" for this case.

Good luck MForstater, you've been amazing!

It’s excellent. Thank you, Maya. I wish I had your courage.

You're amazing Maya. You and the women at LGB Alliance too are my role models.

Who's doing the audiobook version?

Seriously though, this is epic. I was glued to the live tweets all the way through the original hearing, and this is going to be even better.

I remember seeing your original tweet threads and thinking - "okay that's courageous, in her position, or at least foolhardy. Or maybe all those GCs and feminists I've recently come across are exaggerating and there isn't actually a total bar on serious discussion of this stuff."

Turned out the GC feminists weren't exaggerating. But you were absolutely the wrong person to mess with. They struck you down and you've become more powerful than they could possibly imagine.

Good luck - you deserve it.

Looking forward to reading this. Rooting for you Maya

Thank you for all you’re doing Maya and thanks for sharing this document. I will be drawing on it to help me draft the next email in my correspondence with a quango in the country where I live that now uses gender identity in its surveys rather than biological sex as it is “more relevant.”

By the way, I tried to donate via your crowd fund page and was told it was closed to new pledges and just wanted to check this was right?

Sounds brilliant, Maya. I absolutely hope that you win this. You have a very good legal team.

Standing with you Maya. Thank you for doing this.

They struck you down and you've become more powerful than they could possibly imagine

Perfect.

Plus bonus points for the gratuitous Star Wars quote.

Thank you Maya, you are a modern suffragette and we owe you a debt of gratitude. Sanity went out the window with the original ruling and I was/remain aghast. The comprehensive document linked is irrefutable IMO. I'll be following with interest.

Maya you are an inspiration ❤ so proud of everything you are doing.

Maya.

I'm currently watching Maya being interviewed by the women's deadlift world record holder Zuby.

She's fab.

Good luck!

Right behind you Maya !

Bless you Maya. You're strong enough for all of us.

Maya.

That is a work of beauty.

On page 14 and will continue later. Fingers really crossed for her. It looks good, some very sound stuff in there and I'm still trying to work out how the Tribunal thought it was ok to 'pick a side' thereby shutting down free speech. Also a bit of a bump

The hearing is this week, so will be glued

@MForstater

Yes. Happy for it to be read and shared and used.

The judgment won't be for months, and in the meantime it might come in handy (share it with your HR department )

On Tuesday morning we will publish the "Skeleton Plus" which has all the background documents and legal authorities attached and hyperlinked. It is a monster of a document!

Thank you, Maya. Not a lawyer but (insofar as I can understand it) that's a very impressive skeleton.

That tribunal judge actually did us all a favour by enabling this can of worms to be opened and spread out for all to see. I'm just sorry that you've had all the stress and disruption to your life to deal with but I have every confidence you will be vindicated.