‘A politically toxic issue’: the legal battles over gender-critical beliefs

A growing number of organisations have been found to have discriminated against women because of their views. What are employers learning from such cases?

Westminster city council and Social Work England last week became the latest to join a list of organisations – including Arts Council England, a barristers’ chambers and a thinktank – found to have discriminated against a female worker because of their gender-critical beliefs.

The social worker Rachel Meade’s win against the council and her profession’s regulator means she joins a select but growing group of gender-critical feminists who have successfully brought discrimination claims on the basis of their beliefs.