Excellent, thanks for sharing!
I started highlighting parts but there's so much good stuff in there there's rather a lot:
the holding and manifestation of gender critical beliefs are both protected, and always were
This is not a conflict between gender critical beliefs and trans people: it is a conflict between gender critical beliefs and gender identity beliefs.
'the problem is that many organisations that are moral communities are required, but fail, to undertake the requisite intellectual exercise to interrogate the contours of their own moral code. They fail to understand the complexities of their own particular philosophical position – be it gender identity theory or anything else – or the implications for those who do not ascribe to it or are opposed to it. Without that interrogation, an assumption is all too easily made that the reason they hold their moral code is because it is – and by extension they are - morally right. The extension of this is that anyone who doesn’t share the moral code is as. a matter of ineluctable logic, inevitably morally wrong.'
'The more difficult solution to achieving diversity of belief requires an organisation to recognise that there will be diversity of views within its ranks, to engage with those views, and to foster constructive disagreement so that understanding and resolution can be found. In the short term, this appears oppositional to the practical benefits of inclusion and diversity because disagreement may result in conflict. In reality, though, conflict is not avoided by taking the easy path: it has only been delayed, and in being delayed, allowed to ferment.'
'As Haidt writes in the Righteous Mind (p.332):
“Morality binds and blinds. This is not just something that happens to people on the other side. We all get sucked into tribal moral communities. We circle around sacred values and then share post hoc arguments about why we are so right and they are so wrong. We think the other side is blind to truth, reason, science, and common sense, but in fact everyone goes blind when talking about their sacred objects.”'
...'the consultants appear to have proceeded from the starting point that Ms Forstater was transphobic without even having considered the evidence for it: almost as if the allegation of transphobia was in and of itself enough to conclude the existence of transphobia. It appears that even challenging that proposition was itself deemed to be transphobic:'
'The sex and gender debate is not amenable to a homogenous moral binary. It has contours and complexities, and there are substantial points of conflict between people with opposing beliefs, even within groups of those who share protected characteristics. This is diversity.'
'As a diverse society we are constantly engaged in the mediation of conflicting beliefs. This is, to an extent, what a society is.'
'the nature of disputes of belief is that both sides often genuinely believe they are right. Indeed, in a genuine dispute of protected belief, both sides are right'
'By demonstrating the serious shortcomings that have arisen in the equality industry, the case provides an inoculation against the complacent, lazy and actively discriminatory reliance on illusory moral codes as a shortcut to the effort that needs to be made in creating better workplaces and ultimately a better society.'