Pilgrim Tucker v Open University

This is so out of order because most people probably just book imagining that it means same sex and then they turn up and find themselves in a room with a man and can't say anything through fear of being called a bigot or worse. The whole thing relies on trickery and fear at every turn.

My name is Pilgrim Tucker. I am taking legal action against the Open University for breach of contract, discrimination on the basis of my disabilites and gender critical beliefs, and bullying, harassment and victimisation, which has made it impossible for me to continue my PhD research at the OU, and I need your support.
My Story
In 2017 I was invited to study for a PhD at the Open University by OU academic staff Professor Steve Tombs and Dr Vickie Cooper following my campaigning work with residents of Grenfell Tower and the wider Lancaster West Estate before and after the 2017 fire.
I began my PhD at the OU in October 2018, researching the history of housing in North Kensington prior to the Grenfell Tower fire.
However Dr Chris Williams the OU historian that had committed to providing input on the research project was a leading transgender advocate within the university. On realising I was gender critical he blocked me on social media, and then withdrew from working on my project. Although I was promised his expertise would be replaced no history supervision input was provided.
From the time I started attempting to secure history supervision provision OU staff began to construct a false narrative about my application, claiming I had never been promised history supervision input on my PhD, and that I was being unreasonable in expecting the university to provide it.
Subsequently, other administrative and pastoral aspects of my PhD provision began to go very wrong, and I started to become increasingly stressed and anxious, and requested reasonable adjustments to accommodate my increasing mental health and menopause symptoms.
However rather than acknowledge and rectify any service provision failures, or put in place any adjustments to support my studies, the university attempted to conceal they had promised me history supervision and started to claim, falsely, that I had been rude to staff members, stating that the reason I had received a poor standard of provision at the university was due to illness and purported ‘problematic behavioural traits’ on my part.
OU failures included:

• Informing me, wrongly, that I had no entitlement to sick pay or sick leave during periods of ill health, although ESRC funding rules obliged the OU to provide it, and instead advising me to take unpaid leave and claim state benefits while unwell.
• Failure to provide counselling support during the period I was undertaking interviews with victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, despite this being specified as a necessary ethical requirement on my research ethics application and OU staff promising me counselling would be provided.
• Being incorrectly advised by the head of faculty and other OU staff responsible for my PhD that the only way to change supervision arrangements was by making a formal complaint.
• Failing to provide any reasonable adjustments for my disabilities.
• Wrongly informing OU staff that I was dyslexic.
• Failing to reimburse expenses claims amounting to hundreds of pounds for almost 2 years.
• Removing funding for book purchases and falsely claiming I had not had book purchase funding provided from the time I started my PhD.
• Failure to apply the university’s covid tracked extension system to my PhD to cover time lost due to covid lockdowns.
• Failing to provide accurate or reliable information about thesis submission deadlines, study break allowance, and extensions, and providing constantly changing and inaccurate information regarding this.
• Insisting I accept a trans rights activist academic in a pastoral support role.
• Seeking to take punitive action against me, based on false and unsubstantiated allegations about my conduct, following the submission of my complaint about the standard of service provided to me by the university.