Custody officer job withdrawn for GC beliefs - Gribbon (SP legal team) is his solicitor

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I wonder how many more of such actions will be launched. To adapt Jimmy Doyle’s phrase, “the spectacle of this nation’s [lanyard classes] enforcing moral auto-lobotomy as a condition of entry to [employment]”.

A prison custody officer who was sacked for saying he would not address male-born transgender inmates as ‘she’ or ‘her’ has launched legal action against one of the UK’s largest security firms.
Army veteran David Toshack, 50, was dismissed by GEOAmey during a training course only days before taking up a role as a prison custody officer (PCO) at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
The father of three told a safeguarding workshop that he would not be comfortable using a transgender inmates’ preferred gender pronouns and expressed his belief that a man could not become a woman.
It sparked a horrified reaction from bosses at the firm, which employs thousands of justice workers across the UK, who said his views were against the law and company policy.
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He said: ‘I’m just a normal, working class person who’s never been in trouble with the law before, not got a criminal record, lived a good life. I’ve been prepared to go and fight and die for my country, and then I have come back here and been told that there’s certain things you can’t think or can’t say.’

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Original story about David Toshack in Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14963309/Prison-custody-officer-sacked-refusing-call-male-born-trans-prisoners-her.html

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We're back
DH - you've been telling us about those who might have different ideas about identity, including your daughter, who's now no contact. Are you open to a reconciliation with her
DT - absolutely, have told her over and over that we might disagree but we want to be part of

her life, particularly her mum, it's breaking her heart
DH - do you use social media
DT - yes, Facebook, Instagram, X
DH - how do you use social media
DT - for social, contacting people, for news, looking at news, sharing news stories
DH - what do you post, what is your aim

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We're back
DH - you've been telling us about those who might have different ideas about identity, including your daughter, who's now no contact. Are you open to a reconciliation with her
DT - absolutely, have told her over and over that we might disagree but we want to be part of

her life, particularly her mum, it's breaking her heart
DH - do you use social media
DT - yes, Facebook, Instagram, X
DH - how do you use social media
DT - for social, contacting people, for news, looking at news, sharing news stories
DH - what do you post, what is your aim

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DT - I almost never share original contact, mostly reposts or reshare from one platform to another. Usually, social commentary, I post a link and may add my own wee comments, maybe humorous or satirical
DH - do you direct people or encourage people to look at your social media

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DT - no, I think it's only people who are my friends, or who are following me already
DH - who are your friends/followers
DT - I rarely add people
DH - when you post, is it restricted to friends
DT - I'm pretty sure it's public
DH - did you become aware that Rs were looking at

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your social media
DT - only after I was dismissed, I think it was in one of the letters about the appeal,
DH - jumping ahead in the timeline a bit....this is a GA form, 'notification of leaver' it says halfway down the page, text in top box - reason for leaving

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Text starts with 'David has failed probation.....says subsequent to leaving, social media was reviewed, he was making extremist posts' When did you become aware of this view of your social media?
DT - only after my dismissal when letters were flying back and forth

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DH - we will come back to this meeting on 7 January, but was there any reference to your social media posts in that meeting on 7 January
DT - no there was not
DH -
Judge - I have the electronic bundle.
DH - takes DT to pages that are screenshots of postings from social media

Well he didn't waffle - direct and to the point. Only able to follow via MN today due to work rest of week. Do we know how many days this is listed for please?

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Do you recognise these, are they your posts
DT - yes, I do, yes they are
DH - describes post, what platform is this
DT - Facebook
DH - example on page 644, describes post with date, is that the date you posted that
DT - yes, I think so
DH - did you take these screenshots?

DT - I would have posted from Facebook or to X
DH - no these specific screenshots,
DT - are those from GeoAmey
DH - no these are the ones you sent me, how did you collect and send them
DT - oh, I opened my social media, scrolled through my history, took some at random and

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did screenshots, sent them to you via email.
DH - a specific post, referring to an individual who went by the name of 'Telfer', now claiming a women's identity, you've posted with an emoji - a smiley
DT - it's a rolling eye emoji, it's a man in women's sports stealing women's

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medals, I don't know how anyone can accept this.
DH - another post engaging in the issue of participation in sports, those who identify as a different gender, also to do with sports
DT - yes
DH - another report, their post was 21 Sept 2024, the date is obscured but looks like

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you reposted in Sept 2024, image with XX XY, what did that refer to
DT - confirms that there are 2 sexes, 2 genders male & female
DH - you've added that everyone knows this and you've added a couple of emojis,
DT - yes
DH - another we don't have a date but appears to be you

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sharing an article from the The Times about CPS appointing transactivist who is critical of women, you've added a laughing emoji.
DT - yes
DH - may be fairly pejorative language, you've referred to sexually deviants, what were you thinking
DT - one of the guys is Ivor Caplan,

FYI Ivor Caplin is former Labour minister and Chair of Jewish Movement, arrested for child grooming offences in January 2025.

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he had been caught doing sexually deviant stuff, the other in the picture, anyone who looks at that picture knows that that is a man, my belief is that some men who do this, pretend to women are doing it out of a sexual fetish.

DT - and is that the deviancy you're referring to

DH - explain about Ivor Caplan
DT - from what I recall, in contact with underage boys, trying to meet up with them for sex
DH - all these posts are after the commencement of your employment with GA
DT - yes

Oh dear, I do hope Mr Toshack hasn't been casting aspersions on paedophiles!

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DH - going through further posts that were made subsequent to employment at GA,
DT - a couple were after I left, but some were while I was employed
DH - if we were to understand that post, it's Feb 2025, that would be after your dismissal DT - yes

That would be indefensible, surely?! 😂

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DT - yes
DH - an image here of JK Rowling, a quotation, was this something you composed
DT - it was a repost, either from her own X timeline, or someone elses
DH - some smileys/emojis here, why did you report
DT - she references the Emperor is Naked, to me that story is of

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cowardice, people knew that the Emperor had no clothes, it's moral cowardice, they lack moral courage to speak out, that's why i think it's relevant.
DH - looking at the image, underneath it, quote attributed to JK Rowling, on the right, shrugging off accusations of hate crime

I hope we get to see the social media posts made by the people who sacked him. What's good for the goose....

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for misgendering, what is misgendering
DT - it's when you fail to use the pronouns that people tell you
DH - is that part of your beliefs
DT - yes, others can't impose their beliefs on me, I don't impost my beliefs on them, and I can mock those beliefs

Send him to the Gulag!

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DH - now a post of a Telegraph article, why did you post it
DT - it's about lesbians being forced to accept transgender women - men - in their spaces, the whole point of lesbians is that they don't like men, it just blows my mind, and spending tax payer money to defend this stuff

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DH - this was during the time of the Supreme Court case, was it about that
DT - I can't recall exactly but it was during the time of the case going up to the Supreme Court
DH - now a post about BBC Women's Footballer of the Year,
DT - awarding woman's footballer of the year