I know I have the law on my side thanks to the wonderful Maya, but I am feeling very shaken now that it's happening to me. I really wish I could go into detail here as I would appreciate some specific advice, but I'm scared about outing myself, so I'll just summarise the situation at a very high level. I give up a lot of my time to help with my company's EDI initiatives, because I care deeply about making things better for women in my field (which is very male-dominated and quite misogynistic), but pretty much everyone else involved in these initiatives subscribes fully to gender ideology. I am always very careful about what I say, because I know what happens to women who talk out of line, but I also speak up for what I think is right where possible, and try to offer alternative points of view. But now I am under investigation because a complaint has been made to HR about some perfectly reasonable things I said (plus some things they claimed I said, but which I didn't in fact say. I assume their incorrect inference was due to the language barrier between sex-realists and gender-ideologists. Though even if I had said what I understand they claimed I said, I don't think it would be worthy of complaint).
Since I can't give specifics (I really wish I could, as I feel very alone), please could you give me your best general advice for dealing with situations like this? The case should absolutely be thrown out, because I did nothing wrong; but regardless of what happens, I think I need to make a stand now. I feel suffocated, and I can't actually believe we've reached a situation where women being bullied into silence for talking about their own struggles is considered acceptable at a supposedly progressive company. It's dystopian.