This month Maya Forstater, a tax expert who lost her job after saying that trans women are male or “honorary female”, won an appeal against an employment tribunal which found that the decision to dismiss her was lawful. “I’m pleased Maya Forstater got the result she did in court because it’s important that we are able to debate these issues,” Truss says.
How does she feel about claims by Nancy Kelley, the head of Stonewall, that free speech is not “without limits” and compared “gender critical beliefs” to anti-semitism? “I think it’s always very dangerous to try to brush genuine concerns people have under the carpet and say we can’t talk about them,” Truss says. “It’s much more healthy to have an open debate about ideas, to have an honest discussion, rather than trying to say that people should be cancelled if they try to raise those issues.
“It is important that people are able to express their views freely. It’s important that we protect single-sex spaces for vulnerable women such as domestic abuse shelters, and I will say I’m very concerned to make sure the under 18s aren’t able to undertake irreversible treatment they could later regret.”
Part of a longer article where she also talks about booing footballers taking the knee, levelling up and working from homes will give women more opportunities(?)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/true-equality-is-about-bread-and-butter-issues-not-just-taking-the-knee-says-liz-truss-psx9jvjvl