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TRA on tribunal panel for school gender identity cass

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ARoombaOfOnesOwn · 20/06/2022 11:44

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10930909/Trans-rights-activist-judge-case-teaching-assistant-sacked-gender-identity-lessons.html

The Mail is referring to them - Edward Lord - as a trans rights activist. Lawyers for the teacher involved in the case would like them removed. They will be well-known to MNers.

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donquixotedelamancha · 20/06/2022 14:09

To demand Lord be removed from the panel because they’re non-binary is a bit like demanding the removal of anyone who is gay/lesbian from a tribunal panel

Saying you are non-binary is not the same as being gay. Even so, that is nothing to do with why Lord should recuse himself or be removed.

He should not be involved because he's a politician who has repeatedly and publicly campaigned against women's rights to single sex spaces and removed them during political office.

The protected characteristic in this case is religious belief. To clarify your analogy- it would be like Anne Widecome being a magistrate advising on a case where the plaintiff was allegedly sacked for being gay.

Discovereads · 20/06/2022 13:59

I don’t see an issue. They’re going to be one of several advisors on a tribunal panel advising the tribunal judge. It’s the judge who will make the decision. And it is only fair to have a diverse panel of advisors when assessing whether the teacher was unfairly dismissed or not for transphobic comments. To demand Lord be removed from the panel because they’re non-binary is a bit like demanding the removal of anyone who is gay/lesbian from a tribunal panel where a judge is assessing whether an employee was unfairly dismissed for homophobic comments. Or likewise a minority tribunal panel member in a case where an employee has been dismissed for racist comments. You can’t go around engineering tribunal panels to only have the advisors you think will agree with the employee.
www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/judicial-roles/tribunals/fee-paid-judiciary-page-1-2/

MrsOvertonsWindow · 20/06/2022 13:48

An ethical person would automatically disbar themselves in the light of their pronouncement about and attitudes towards women. Very telling about Lord's desperation to be involved.

FannyCann · 20/06/2022 13:27

One hospital has attracted attention with its rainbow crossings.

TRA on tribunal panel for school gender identity cass
TRA on tribunal panel for school gender identity cass
FannyCann · 20/06/2022 13:24

Lord is a trustee of the LGBT Foundation.
Which is overseeing the NHS Rainbow Badge project, embedding rainbows and stonewall law throughout the NHS.

NHS England is funding this.

TRA on tribunal panel for school gender identity cass
TRA on tribunal panel for school gender identity cass
TRA on tribunal panel for school gender identity cass
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ARoombaOfOnesOwn · 20/06/2022 12:54

Sex Matters piece here:
sex-matters.org/posts/updates/edward-lord/

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Hagiography · 20/06/2022 11:54

Edward Lord, partner of Meg John Barker, who has co authored books with current director of WPATH Dr Walter Pierre Boumann, who has overseen the latest 'standards of care' version 8, which includes the chapter on 'Eunuchs'.

Just joining up some dots.

Artichokeleaves · 20/06/2022 11:47

.... with that man's record, I would be very interested in an explanation of why he is an appropriate person to be involved in a case regarding a child.

achillestoes · 20/06/2022 11:45

He needs to be removed immediately.

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ARoombaOfOnesOwn · 20/06/2022 11:45

Case, not Cass as in Cass report.

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