Scotland: Union faces legal challenge over gender policy

[WaterThyme]

The Community trade union is facing legal action from two members over claims they were threatened with disciplinary action for criticising its gender policy.

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.

www.personneltoday.com/hr/union-faces-legal-challenge-over-gender-policy/

Good for Norma and Alison!

Well done Norma and Alison.
Case by case women are taking our stuff back and insisting that bullies everywhere start abiding by the law and the social contact in a democratic society.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5524422-women-to-take-union-to-court-over-concerns-its-non-binary-equality-policy-is-unlawful?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share
There’s a thread here but I agree this is great to see!

Thanks for pointing that out @testmatchspecial I should have looked.

The previous thread is the place for follow-ups.