Denise Fahmy taking Arts Council England to an Employment Tribunal because she has been harassed for being gender critical.

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Denise Fahmy queried why an award to the LGB Alliance was withdrawn and then faced harrassment at work.

From her summary:
" some of my colleagues saw fit to circulate a petition to all staff against me and any other 'gender criticals' working at ACE. The petition was hosted for 26 hours on the ACE staff intranet, gaining the attention of 700 staff and signatures from over 100 of them. People signed it, and made comments, citing gender critical people like me and LGB Alliance as parasites, neo nazis, needing to be stamped out ..."

Denise is gardening in the usual place - see "Fighting bias at the top of the Arts Council"

If you're able to help her out by planting or sharing please do. Thank you.

I lurk quietly, garden and dig, and I'm sending you @DizF all my best wishes, you're a trouper and I just wish it wasn't necessary.

Thanks so much - tide is turning

Good luck @DizF

I really hope so because as a women, without a penis, I feel lost and dismayed that we are being cast aside so easily.

Good luck x

Good luck Denise 💐

I have just requested access by doing this:

Requests from the media and members of the public to observe a hearing remotely should be made in advance to [email protected] to allow for inclusion during the hearing set-up. The naming convention in the subject heading of the email request should read "MEDIA OR PUBLIC ACCESS REQUEST - AN Other v AN Other - Hearing Date."

Thank you very much indeed, @Whatthechicken . 👍🏻

Don’t know if it will work though. 🤞🙏

Well, i've emailed them now, so we'll have to just let the chips fall where they may. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you for taking the trouble to respond, though.

Sorry @Ameanstreakamilewide I’ve just had an email back, it’s ‘in attendance’ only.

Yeah, me too. It was worth a try, though, so thank you for your help.

I'm sure Tribunal Tweets will keep us updated.

Wishing you all the best @DizF

Tribunal Tweets are on!

Great.

https://twitter.com/tribunaltweets/status/1659103790480478209?cxt=HHwWgsC-0e2GqYYuAAAA

Thanks for the heads up.

Do we have prior experience/knowledge of the employment judge or the barrister for the Arts council?

Still waiting to hear if they are permitted to tweet. I hope so!

I think this is the judge:

https://www.42br.com/jude-shepherd

Oh, the KC for the AC was on Forstater: https://www.11kbw.com/barristers/aileen-mccolgan/

Oh, Anya Palmer for Denise Fahmy also rep'd Maya Forstater.

It's such a shame that's an in-person only hearing.

I like to think it would be a bit of (digital) moral support for Denise.

Bumping a case anyone wanted to plant something for Denise.

good luck today

TT haven't been given permission to Live Tweet yet.

The Judge hasn't decided yet.

'Permission to live-tweet may be contested / discussed and so we shall not be tweeting on the assumption that permission is a given; we are sorry that we shall not be able to relay any of that discussion as it happens.'

TT have said a Telegraph journalist has challenged decision not to allow live reporting the problem seems to be "Arts Council barrister was concerned about witnesses being identified and asked for redactions"

But if everything they've done is reasonable and above board why are they concerned about being identified?