"Whistleblower ‘forced out’ of Whitehall over gender beliefs"

[AnotherAngryAcademic]

Another ET looming - according to Maya Forstater's twitter feed Eleanor Frances is being represented by Akua Reindorf and Peter Daly.

Whistleblower ‘forced out’ of Whitehall over gender beliefs

This will be an interesting case. I wonder if it’ll get as far as the court room?

https://archive.ph/bGxf9

Well, Eleanor Francis says she did offer to withdraw and she'd accept £1 as compensation if the CS paid the legal fees. They declined.

I'm sure the CS is quite happy to spend our taxes funding their fantasy case.

Thanks for the article link. I did read about it, but as it was a gardening site I didn't post, and FSU didn't seem to have a statement.

Every time I hear a story about the Civil Service whether on trans ideology, I also think no wonder so many payments, driving licences, etc., etc. are taking so long.

Actually doing their job seems to take second place to virtue signalling and bullying those who dont conform to the in group's perception of what is "right".

controversial gay rights organisation

Significant Stonewall was described in that article, as “controversial”, but it’s not been a “gay rights” organisation for a very long time…

This looks like a big case. Top legal team.

Ms Frances believes she was left with no option than to quit the civil service last August after failing to get a response to complaints raised internally, and subsequently losing confidence in her department’s whistleblowing processes.

Civil servants are bound by a strict duty of impartiality. Yet Ms Frances saw first-hand during her five years in the profession that when government departments officially adopt internal policies on sex and gender, civil servants are effectively compelled to do the same.

Rather than look the other way and let this pass unchallenged, Eleanor raised concerns formally about what she saw as a series of significant breaches of civil service impartiality.

Her concerns included the emergence of a politicised ‘climate of fear’ around Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policies, and the risk of negative professional consequences for civil servants who questioned the institutional position on issues such as sex and gender.

https://freespeechunion.org/fsu-member-eleanor-frances-forced-out-of-whitehall-over-gender-critical-beliefs/

Eleanor Frances has started a thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/feminism/5078658-i-was-victimised-after-whistleblowing-about-civil-service-impartiality-on-sex-and-gender-issues

Thanks - I am losing faith in mumsnet indexing!

I always check FWR by newest added, and this didn't seem to show.

But fantastic.

We should all move to that thread.

It’s in Feminist Chat which explains why it didn’t show up - I spotted it in Active.

Oh no - I dont go to chat on principle!!

I'd completely forgotten it exists!

Hi everyone,

I'm Eleanor Frances. Thank you so much for the support. Just to confirm, my thread is here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/feminism/5078658-i-was-victimised-after-whistleblowing-about-civil-service-impartiality-on-sex-and-gender-issues

(sorry for the confusion, I'm new!)

Welcome Eleanor and good luck!

Good luck! 🍀

Thanks for the link to your thread.

I'm sure that by now many of you will have seen the good news that I have reached settlement in my Employment Tribunal case for discrimination and victimisation in connection with Civil Service EDI initiatives. DCMS and DSIT have agreed to pay £116k, and to make a statement committing to overhaul their HR policies.

I am very grateful for all the generous and heartfelt support that I have received. It has been truly humbling. This made it possible to pursue this case and reach this outcome.

Here are links to the write-up in the Telegraph, my update on X/Twitter, an
explainer from Sex Matters, and a new Mumsnet thread where the discussion continues.

Congratulations, Eleanor. A victory for you is a victory for all of us who are battling this nonsense.

Thank you, Eleanor. I was out with a retired civil servant a month or so ago and freedom-of-speech came up. They're out-of-the-loop now, and commented that things are certainly going in the wrong direction, but we won't reach frightening degrees of genuine censorship in our lifetimes. I made a clumsy attempt to explain that we're well past that already, when well-intentioned defences of women's sex-based rights are punished as bigotry at government level. You've done a brave thing that will help us all.

Janice Turner is talking about this case in the Times:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/9aee3d7b-b92e-4db1-a0d6-402d4d6a0f97?shareToken=22ec8c4e68a867a10bd5faf4ed30c3ee