Allison Bailey v Stonewall - Employment Tribunal hearing Thread 2

So much to read in that bundle!
Shocked at how GC treated one of their own.
The stonewall info reads like they are a student union.

I'm so hoping that we meet more of the GC team at the tribunal...

Some news coverage by the BBC (but nothing in The Grauniad, naturally...): www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61326359

I cant get it out of my head since I finished reading it. The way they treated her, threw her under the bus indeed. My anger is now at boiling point - she must win. I can't quite believe what she was put through by the best legal minds in the land. It's beyond belief. Diversity and inclusion my arse, they should have lauded her, instead they crucified her. Familiar names popping up too Drummond, Jones etc. Just donated again.

Yes, just finished reading it myself. Devastating - can't wait for BC to take SW and GC(C) through it.

That is very interesting, Jules. Thanks for posting it.
😫Oh, the irony in the comments that at least the CEO is now a woman 'which can't do any harm'.

This was the thing I was referring to earlier. It's an account of a meeting held by Stonewall with trans activists. It's very interesting to see the options they were considering and to wonder how things might've been very different.

www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2014/08/transstonewall-the-meeting/

Another one who's read her statement - what an incredible woman - and this is who the wealthy charity Stonewall and a law firm tried to destroy. Unbelievable.

Same. So brave to waive her legal anonymity and talk about her abuse when she was a child. And she's worked so hard to get where she is.

I just felt compelled to change my user name.

Another one who's read her statement - what an incredible woman - and this is who the wealthy charity Stonewall and a law firm tried to destroy. Unbelievable.

Me too.

My jaw is actually sore from being wedged to the floor reading it. Unbelievable behaviour by her chambers.

I really hope we hear from Michelle Brewer & Stephanie Harrison. Ben will need to be on his top game for them.

I've just finished it - it's jaw dropping. Lots of details I wasn't aware of but I'm absolutely gobsmacked at the conduct of a barrister's chambers over 2 tweets. It's like Maya's employer on steriods. They're supposed to be highly intelligent well educated people!!!!

Talcum X gets another mention for inducing a pile on, against another GC woman.

Bit of a pattern developing...

£545k that’s incredible. Off to donate some more. I hope she knows how many of us are cheering her on.

And I include in that any sexual orientation. If someone is attracted to female-presenting people, that's a sexual orientation and is also protected.

waves to Ann

I know, Ann, it doesn't seem like it would be an obvious detriment, but in fact it is. Sexual orientation is a protected characteristic. If your public discussion of your actual sexual orientation is regarded as bigoted by your employer, such that it affects you at work, I can't see that that isn't a detriment. AB's actual sexual orientation is towards female people, not people who present as female.

Allison's statement is well worth a read. She really is a remarkable woman. Overcome so much adversity and still fighting. I admire her so much.

Having read her whole witness statement, I reverse my position and think she's got them.

Nearly all the support for AB (unsolicited by her) emailed to GCC was from women.

I nearly made that comment alongside my donation but I'm not a lesbian so didn't want to skew the statistics

Will the make up of donors be admissible as evidence of being more female support than male?

'Is Michelle Brewer going to be a witness? I wouldn't be surprised if in this case she will be an Ellen Mackenzie type figure (a key player from the Maya Forstater tribunal).'

I don't know. She doesn't work for them anymore so I don't know whether they can make her testify? I'm not sure how that all works.

'That's really interesting, Tabby, thanks for that. So it appears that not only were SW and GCC triangulating in order to discriminate but AB has provided the evidence to prove it. (Isn't that what a lot of the delay has been about - waiting on late disclosure on the part of the respondants, and then having to go through it all at a rate of knots?)'

I think the evidence is strongly indicative of that for at least one GCC employee.

Which is an amazing 8,900 donations

That's really interesting, Tabby, thanks for that. So it appears that not only were SW and GCC triangulating in order to discriminate but AB has provided the evidence to prove it. (Isn't that what a lot of the delay has been about - waiting on late disclosure on the part of the respondants, and then having to go through it all at a rate of knots?)

Yup, I believe that if two £50k donations are excluded it averages out at about £50 quid a head.

In my mind, EM will always be Macavity.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square-
But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's
And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,
Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled,
Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair
Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there!

And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray,
Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,
There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair-
But it's useless to investigate-Macavity's not there!
And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:
It must have been Macavity!'-but he's a mile away.