Creating a case to request that my employers status as Stonewall Champion be reviewed

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I think now might be the time to formally request that my employer reviews our status as a Stonewall Champion.

I need your hive viper mind to help build the case.

So, I think I will start with pointing out recent developments

1. Discrimination lawyer has declared advice given by SW to Essex Uni, to be unlawful, leading to restrictions on freedom of speech on an academic campus.

Question to the vipers, do we have any evidence of the teaching of biology at uni being impacted by gender ideology? That would be handy.

2. SW have hidden the list of champions on their website, should this worry us?

3. The EHRC have severed their links with DW, again, is this cause for concern?

4. SW have released a new strategy which clearly positions them as a campaigning political organisation. Some of their aims have the potential to clash with the rights and protections of other protected groups such as women and vulnerable groups such as children. Is it appropriate to have some of our internal HR policies dictated by an external political organisation?

5. By focusing so much on SW have we lost focus on other groups

Anything else I should add? Anyone else done this successfully?

I am considering my next moves. Might run for chair of the Gender Equality (previously women's) network.. But then again I think that would get me fired quicker than taking a dump on the CEOs desk.

Does anyone have a link to the no fault divorce thread? I must have missed that one. Thank you.

I was just having a look to check my facts and I think the thread has gone poof. It was hte EHRC cts ties with SW thread. This is what I can dig up from a google search
"EHRC has provided a benign no-fault divorce template to all organisations. Allowing them to each 'review their budgets' and decide how better ..."

I think until this can be verified don't take it as gospel

That explains why I can't find it then! Thank you, and I'll keep my eye out for any more news on it. Thanks for starting the thread.

"EHRC has provided a benign no-fault divorce template …"

I think that is just someone commenting that "the EHRC approach ("budget innit") has created a nice bland template that any organisation could follow" - rather than, "the EHRC are actively encouraging all SW Champs to withdraw and have sent out a template later to everyone telling them how". Nice though the latter would be!

Good news about your own workplace - shows the news re EHRC/SW is really getting out there, at least. And congratulations anyway - take it as your own win. After all, all the work and campaigning and court cases that everywoman's digging has achieved all played into this.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/adc11a5e-bf1b-11eb-a904-b6ed9daa84aa?shareToken=9b81682a81494996a30da076ea288ee6

"Acas, the employment dispute service, confirmed to The Times that it had withdrawn “for cost reasons” from the diversity champions scheme run by Stonewall."