the story has been picked up by the Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/25/transgender-views-created-toxic-culture-fear-arts-council/
"Denise Fahmy claims Britain’s biggest arts quango risked “closing down free speech” after a grant was withdrawn from a charity that campaigns exclusively for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights.
Ms Fahmy, 54, who has worked for 15 years as an Arts Council England (ACE) grant officer, says she was targeted after she questioned why £9,000 of funding was withdrawn from LGB Alliance.
She has now resigned but is taking ACE to an employment tribunal because she claims she was harassed and victimised due to her “gender critical” beliefs.
In April last year, LGB Alliance was awarded the grant to make a film for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee to celebrate how the lives of gay men had improved under the monarch’s reign.
However, the money was withdrawn amid claims the alliance was transphobic, an allegation the charity denies.
At an ACE staff meeting held a few days before the cash was pulled, Simon Mellor, ACE’s deputy chief executive, accused LGB Alliance of being “a divisive organisation with a history of anti-trans exclusionary activity”.
He said it was a “mistake” for it to have been awarded the grant through a second body, the London Community Foundation.
At that meeting, Ms Fahmy spoke saying she was “shocked” by Mr Mellor’s remarks, which she felt demonstrated ”worrying “bias” that threatened to affect funding of the arts.
Afterwards, Ms Fahmy, who oversees the development of the visual arts in the north of England, made a formal complaint about Mr Mellor’s comments to Sir Nick Serota, the council’s chairman, and wrote to Michelle Donelan, the then culture secretary."
Much more on the Telegraph website obviously but I don't think I am allowed to post archive links on here. I am allowed to post archive links on Ovarit (see Activism thread).