What would you do? Professional issue

[Oooiwanna]

So I’m wondering what people’s response would be / should be if a man called on other colleagues to report people to the governing body of the profession, to be struck off, if they made and non pro-trans comments. Including, being supportive of pro-women arguments, female only spaces or anything in that vein. Most colleagues are female btw.

What’s the context? Are you running public services including some which are or would benefit from being single sex? If so then you remind the colleague of equalities legislation which allows for this, and to court rulings which state that you may legally hold the opinion that sex is immutable.

Otherwise, my response would remain as it currently is, which is not to talk about it at work. I’m as GC as they come but I really don’t understand why people on either side of the divide want to talk about gender so much at work. You wouldn’t debate religion or politics or critical race theory at work, I imagine, because it’s not appropriate, and if you’re a manager, would remind your colleagues of such and close it down. I don’t see why you’d make an exception for gender theory.

I would say everyone's entitled to their opinion and let's keep politics out of the workplace. I certainly wouldn't be reporting anyone for stating the bleeding obvious!

In the UK, I'd make a complaint to HR as he is in breach of The Equality Act. Its an offence to victimise or harass anyone because of their protected characteristic. Both 'sex' and 'belief' are covered in this situation.

26 Harassment(1)A person (A) harasses another (B) if—
(a) A engages in unwanted conduct related to a relevant protected characteristic, and
(b) the conduct has the purpose or effect of—
(i) violating B's dignity, or
(ii) creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for B.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/26

Contact Sex Matters for advice:

https://sex-matters.org/

And possibly:

https://freespeechunion.org/

Also - record everything, take pictures, make notes.