FFS. Flagged at work for gender critical views

My Facebook account has very little personal info (no schools, birthday etc) and high privacy settings. I did have my job on my twitter feed but have now deleted that and earlier this month I made my profile pic more anonymous. I deleted my Linkedin account last month after I became aware that if you typed in my name it came up on Google.
Your boss bringing you in like that is very creepy. Believing transwomen are men should not be a cause for concern just a sign the person can think for herself and believes in science not wishful thinking.

So the complaints came from people inside your new workplace? I suppose that's marginally better than having an external complaint from someone who has tracked down where you work, but only marginally.

TRA and the manipulation of twitter needs to be investigated as a matter of urgency.

OP "We aren't BNP members or part of a cult"

speaking as a non-white, my first thought there is that the BNP are a legitimate party - I spent my whole childhood terrified of being sent "back" to a country I've never seen.

Gender critical views are now seen the same way as the BNP - not yet legally banned, but quite likely to be.

I am on social media under a fake name so my employer can't find me. In the past it was because expressing views about being childfree would cause issues; now it's about being gender critical or perceived as anti trans.

Sorry this is happening to you. I don't know what the answer is.

I absolutely agree we shouldn't have to. But such is the toxic level of anyone getting embroiled in a SM storm with accusations of transphobia, most businesses are keen not to get dragged into anything like that. Your only have to see the response of most people when they're caught up in it to see how loaded and unfair it is, but few of us can risk our employment to take a stand. Off the top of my head, the QC Jo whatsisname completely 180'd after the pile on, the various venues who have been hounded by TRAs when meetings arranged. It's an onslaught few businesses have the appetite for & don't want to get involved, irrespective on how reasonable you are/how inaccurate the accusations of transphobia are.

I'm not saying this because I agree with them or think you have done anything wrong. The person who reviewed your SM postings might be of the view it's transphobic but it's just their interpretation - do you challenge it further in a new job or keep your head down because you need your job? That's the difficulty & why it's bloody unfair all round.

If it doesn’t affect your job, (and if you’ve never mentioned it, it hasn’t) it shouldn’t have been raised.

Just as worrying is the idea that it’s now considered so unacceptable that it might get in the way of finding employment as well.

It might be a bit late now, but you could tighten your privacy settings on social media to friends and family only, to stop your employer having access to your personal posts and opinions. Freedom of speech used to be a cherished core value in this country - it is terrifying to see what is happening now.

I get that employers may review social media. But since when did a belief in biology and a desire to assert women’s rights make someone “high risk”

I hate that the smear campaign has been so successful that we are considered dangerous for wanting to be safe.

All employers review social media, especially in new recruits. It's part of the screening process.

My advice to anyone who has concerns over what is in the public domain is to be very careful what and how you word things, be as vague and anonymous as you u can and don't link to your location, place of work, children's school or any other local/personal organisation that you are involved in. Or at least set up a 2nd a/c for those things and keep this stuff well away from your personal information.

It’s very worrying indeed. I’d also like to know how it came up.

Here for general handholding and shared awareness of the shirt hitting the fan. Or something like shirt, anyway. Also treading very warily at work. X

How did they link you to your work? That's really concerning.