Norma Austin Hart and Alison Ann-Dowling have lodged a judicial review at the Court of Session in Scotland seeking to scrap the union’s gender equality strategy, which was only adopted by Community’s national executive council in February last year.
They claim the policy is unlawful because it treats women and those who claim to identify as non-binary as a single category, contrary to last year’s UK Supreme Court ruling that determined sex is defined by biology.
The women have also made a claim of victimisation, after they were written to by the union warning they could face disciplinary action after they criticised the policy publicly in an article that was published online on Substack.
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