Maya is an incredibly brave and resolute person – bringing this fight into the light and being so proactive about defending the rights of all people. Her story is shocking and will hopefully encourage others to join in the push back and to use the law to address this wherever possible.
And meanwhile in America, hundreds of male criminals, simply by claiming to be female, are being processed into women’s jails.
The lower decks occupants, fill the page above – my post above Awaiting for Approval as I listed all the organizations mentioned, and it made a frightening list… Society is doomed.
Anthony Lewis
2 years ago
Total respect for you Maya for standing up for individual freedom and fighting these anti liberal intolerant and totally misguided forces. I am a founding member of the Free Speech Union and the LGB Alliance. What you highlight also is the increasing trend towards activist lawyers changing the law outside the democratic process with little debate resulting in developments which have little support in the general populace – this is perhaps for me the most worrying aspect of what is going at the moment. Yoiu are an important and powerful voice of reason – please continue your important advocacy on all our behalfs.
Yes, that’s my fear. Labour are committed to the mindless mantra, ‘trans women are women, trans men are men’* and they will change the law to fit Stonewall ‘law’.
*Whenever I read that I have a mental image from SciFi films where people taken over by aliens become chanting zombies.
I hope you’re right, Lesley. It hasn’t alienated LGBT activists, to be sure. But ordinary lesbians, gays, and bisexuals may be a different story. It does occur to me that lesbians may be the least enthusiastic about people with male parts in the women’s locker/shower/dressing room. After all, their hetero and bi sisters may get some voyeuristic pleasure from the spectacle(s) – but why would they?
Judy Englander
2 years ago
I’ve donated to S*x Matters (link in article) and strongly recommend that other readers do so. This group has received only a fraction of the publicity that another worthy organisation – the Free Speech Union – garners. Why this should be I’ll leave to readers’ speculation. But I’d guess this leads to a big difference in funding.
So please – help out and give them some dosh for your sisters’, daughters’, granddaughters’, girlfriends’ and wives’ sakes. Also for the sake of a return to a sane and decent society. Whatever you think of the original Suffragettes’ methods, this is a suffragette movement for the 21st century – a fight against the disenfranchisement of women.
Hi Judy, I definitely get your point about publicity differences, but maybe this can be chalked up to the FSU being around a bit longer? Also, they’re a bit more generalized in terms of free speech issues, whereas SexMatters has a limited focus. Anyway, might oaks from little acorns and all that!
Sarah Atkin
2 years ago
I have respect and admiration for you and anger at what you’ve been through. We’re seeing an Orwellian nightmare unfolding before our eyes here, gripping our society. As with most nightmares, it’s crept up on us. Now, on a daily basis something happens that seeks to undermine and erode women’s sex based rights and the idea that women even exist! Then there’s this huge growth in teenage girls wanting to transition – no longer wanting to be girls. I work in education and this is a recent phenomena. It’s terrifying. Not questioned. The wider public are not yet fully aware this is happening but surely, it’s now only a matter of time before the penny ‘drops’? Plainly, we cannot rely on our politicians to be brave. I despair that the Labour Party isn’t standing up for women here.
Thanks, Maya, with you all the way. That was a great dig in the final paragraph. I was very impressed by the YouTube clip of you speaking after being appalling thrown out of your job. Men, women, transmen, transwomen are perfectly understandable and encompassing terms. We also can’t allow this stuff to wreck women’s sport.
By “transgender males”, you mean folks with female parts claiming to be male? If so, I’m for that as well. When they fail to win a whole lot of berths on teams – other than those from leagues which are non-competitive – it should put an end to the claim that biological males have no advantage over biological females in sports.
Christopher Barclay
2 years ago
What a surprise! Judges deciding that they can change the law without the bother of getting the changes passed in Parliament. The views that are ‘acceptable in a democratic society’ being determined by unelected officials and organisations. Civil servants worrying about sex and gender while the country struggles with a pandemic for which they had completely failed to plan even though an outbreak had been expected for 20 years.
Lawyer made law is the way to go.
Can’t have Parliament having a say.
Gary Baxter
2 years ago
This transgender and other identity politics nonsense can only have a market in rich white countries. People in most parts of the world — poor, developing countries, China, Russia and much of East Europe would look at such drama with utter befuddlement and downright contempt! They wonder: are they mad?
Are we mad？Yes, many of us are. Especially those bleeding-hearts do-gooders, mostly from comfortable middle-class background. They dream of, and believe in a Utopia, where all borders are blurred and disappear, all men and women (sorry, there wouldn’t be men and women any more, only persons, which may very well include chimpanzees) embrace and kiss each other day and night. What we would have is a Dystopia.
Last edited 2 years ago by Gary Baxter
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
“2019, when I lost my job at an international development think tank”
“When I sought legal representation to bring a claim against my ex-employer, two major law firms refused to take my case,”
“I looked around for another job in the international development sector,”
“I asked the Fawcett Society, an organisation that dates back to the Suffragettes, if it would speak up about my case. It declined.”
“Stonewall and a host of LGBT organisations wrote”
“when the Equality and Human Rights Commission intervened to argue in support of my right to freedom of belief.”
“Amnesty International andthe TUC have only commented”
“Since 2004 the Gender Recognition Act”
“A powerful lobby group led by the charity Stonewall, which used to campaign for gay rights”
“And so I sued my ex-employer for discrimination and victimisation.”
“protect your rights under the Equality Act. My “protected act””
“But the Center for Global Development, my ex-employer,”
“Last month the Employment Appeal Tribunal reversed the Employment Tribunal”
“A key reason is that many are signed up to Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Scheme,”
“that led me, together with a team of lawyers and academics, to establish a new human-rights organisation, Sex Matters”
“The Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Justice, Ofsted and the Equality and Human Rights Commission are among the 40 organisations”
“The Government Legal Department” (which advises other departments on what the law says)”
“with over ten thousand signatures to the Commission on Standards in Public Life.”
WTF?? What sort of world do you people live in?
“Kafkaesque nightmare” the writer calls this, and it is, also a VAST money hole where reason is drained of its blood for Woke insanity to make huge amounts of money to lawyers and give high pay to what are basically teams of parasites working in Douglas Adams kinds of ‘Ministries’ and NOGs and ‘Charities’ who do no good, but immense harm.
The Kafka part this all brings to mind if Metamorphosis’ where the petty, useless and obstructionist, bureaucrat is so miserable he turns into a giant cockroach, which is exactly, Karmically, what all these ones above should do.
Little Dorrit and “The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office”. (Dickens)
Miriam Cotton
2 years ago
Excellent. We have an international pandemic of a virus known as extreme transgenderism. We urgently need both treatment and inoculation from it.
Alan Thorpe
2 years ago
The monsters from the id have infected the minds of humanity.
Anna Bramwell
2 years ago
The interesting thing is that international development organisations deal only with countries who agree with Maya. I wonder what feedback they got from developing countries over this affair.
No feedback. They took the money and kept their mouths shut.
tricia colibaba
1 year ago
What you describe, and everything going on now reminds me of Alice in Wonderland. What you went through, and the arguments used against you are absurd, to the level of farce. I think though that you, and other people who share your beliefs need to unite and be like a loud, nuanced choir, rather than voices in the wilderness of hysterical, not based in science screeds. The same people who can’t tell us what a woman is, and try to browbeat us into believing that men can give birth, also tell us to vaccinate for C19, because we must, because it’s science. Keep up the good work, and unite.
Last edited 1 year ago by tricia colibaba
David McDowell
2 years ago
The existing legal framework that Maya hides behind is a creation of feminist activists and others who regarded earlier laws as outdated and campaigned to have changed, sometimes using aggressive and underhand tactics. What Maya is essentially demanding is that legal evolution should cease because she likes the law as it stands. She has advanced biological and scientific arguements in support of her position. The reactionaries in earlier generations did the same thing.
Laws should made by elected representatives not lawyers and judges.No sane person thinks the law is static.Ducking stools anyone or perhaps a bit of hanging drawing and quartering?
Well that is a good soundbite, until you remember that England and Wales is a “common law” jurisdiction and law has been made by the courts for time immemorial. So laws here should be made by lawyers and judges because that is our tradition and it works!
That’s not actually true. Laws become laws when the sovereign gives a parliamentary bill royal assent. The courts then interpret it’s application to particular cases, building up a body of case law over time.
As to the view “That there are two sexes, and that people cannot literally change sex, are plain statements of fact that also align with British law.” this also aligns with medical fact. Any person, of any gender can only be at risk of getting either cervical or prostate cancer. This is determined by your sex.
Maya is an incredibly brave and resolute person – bringing this fight into the light and being so proactive about defending the rights of all people. Her story is shocking and will hopefully encourage others to join in the push back and to use the law to address this wherever possible.
And meanwhile in America, hundreds of male criminals, simply by claiming to be female, are being processed into women’s jails.
TheGolgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B
The lower decks occupants, fill the page above – my post above Awaiting for Approval as I listed all the organizations mentioned, and it made a frightening list… Society is doomed.
Total respect for you Maya for standing up for individual freedom and fighting these anti liberal intolerant and totally misguided forces. I am a founding member of the Free Speech Union and the LGB Alliance. What you highlight also is the increasing trend towards activist lawyers changing the law outside the democratic process with little debate resulting in developments which have little support in the general populace – this is perhaps for me the most worrying aspect of what is going at the moment. Yoiu are an important and powerful voice of reason – please continue your important advocacy on all our behalfs.
swamp creature is attacked and harried by large pack of predatory swamp creatures….
If the trans activists keep on fighting for their agenda without a more powerful resistance the law will eventually be rewritten to their wishes.
Yes, that’s my fear. Labour are committed to the mindless mantra, ‘trans women are women, trans men are men’* and they will change the law to fit Stonewall ‘law’.
*Whenever I read that I have a mental image from SciFi films where people taken over by aliens become chanting zombies.
Labour are nowhere near power. Not that it matters – most of this ideology has permeated universities and businesses. under the conservatives.
And Labour are losing thousands of votes every day because of their mindless adherence to the transgender cult.
Trans activists have hijacked Stonewall and alienated gay and lesbian people.
I hope you’re right, Lesley. It hasn’t alienated LGBT activists, to be sure. But ordinary lesbians, gays, and bisexuals may be a different story. It does occur to me that lesbians may be the least enthusiastic about people with male parts in the women’s locker/shower/dressing room. After all, their hetero and bi sisters may get some voyeuristic pleasure from the spectacle(s) – but why would they?
I’ve donated to S*x Matters (link in article) and strongly recommend that other readers do so. This group has received only a fraction of the publicity that another worthy organisation – the Free Speech Union – garners. Why this should be I’ll leave to readers’ speculation. But I’d guess this leads to a big difference in funding.
So please – help out and give them some dosh for your sisters’, daughters’, granddaughters’, girlfriends’ and wives’ sakes. Also for the sake of a return to a sane and decent society. Whatever you think of the original Suffragettes’ methods, this is a suffragette movement for the 21st century – a fight against the disenfranchisement of women.
Hi Judy, I definitely get your point about publicity differences, but maybe this can be chalked up to the FSU being around a bit longer? Also, they’re a bit more generalized in terms of free speech issues, whereas SexMatters has a limited focus. Anyway, might oaks from little acorns and all that!
I have respect and admiration for you and anger at what you’ve been through. We’re seeing an Orwellian nightmare unfolding before our eyes here, gripping our society. As with most nightmares, it’s crept up on us. Now, on a daily basis something happens that seeks to undermine and erode women’s sex based rights and the idea that women even exist! Then there’s this huge growth in teenage girls wanting to transition – no longer wanting to be girls. I work in education and this is a recent phenomena. It’s terrifying. Not questioned. The wider public are not yet fully aware this is happening but surely, it’s now only a matter of time before the penny ‘drops’? Plainly, we cannot rely on our politicians to be brave. I despair that the Labour Party isn’t standing up for women here.
I can’t upvote you! I tried, and the # does not change .
There is a sickness, a disease running through western civilization, and it has nothing to do with Covid.
It won’t end well for the West
Transwomen are to women as wax fruit is to fruit.
Thanks, Maya, with you all the way. That was a great dig in the final paragraph. I was very impressed by the YouTube clip of you speaking after being appalling thrown out of your job. Men, women, transmen, transwomen are perfectly understandable and encompassing terms. We also can’t allow this stuff to wreck women’s sport.
I hope to see more transgender males competing in athletics.
By “transgender males”, you mean folks with female parts claiming to be male? If so, I’m for that as well. When they fail to win a whole lot of berths on teams – other than those from leagues which are non-competitive – it should put an end to the claim that biological males have no advantage over biological females in sports.
What a surprise! Judges deciding that they can change the law without the bother of getting the changes passed in Parliament. The views that are ‘acceptable in a democratic society’ being determined by unelected officials and organisations. Civil servants worrying about sex and gender while the country struggles with a pandemic for which they had completely failed to plan even though an outbreak had been expected for 20 years.
Lawyer made law is the way to go.
Can’t have Parliament having a say.
This transgender and other identity politics nonsense can only have a market in rich white countries. People in most parts of the world — poor, developing countries, China, Russia and much of East Europe would look at such drama with utter befuddlement and downright contempt! They wonder: are they mad?
Are we mad？Yes, many of us are. Especially those bleeding-hearts do-gooders, mostly from comfortable middle-class background. They dream of, and believe in a Utopia, where all borders are blurred and disappear, all men and women (sorry, there wouldn’t be men and women any more, only persons, which may very well include chimpanzees) embrace and kiss each other day and night. What we would have is a Dystopia.
“2019, when I lost my job at an international development think tank”
“When I sought legal representation to bring a claim against my ex-employer, two major law firms refused to take my case,”
“I looked around for another job in the international development sector,”
“I asked the Fawcett Society, an organisation that dates back to the Suffragettes, if it would speak up about my case. It declined.”
“Stonewall and a host of LGBT organisations wrote”
“when the Equality and Human Rights Commission intervened to argue in support of my right to freedom of belief.”
“Amnesty International and the TUC have only commented”
“Since 2004 the Gender Recognition Act”
“A powerful lobby group led by the charity Stonewall, which used to campaign for gay rights”
“And so I sued my ex-employer for discrimination and victimisation.”
“protect your rights under the Equality Act. My “protected act””
“But the Center for Global Development, my ex-employer,”
“Last month the Employment Appeal Tribunal reversed the Employment Tribunal”
“A key reason is that many are signed up to Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Scheme,”
“that led me, together with a team of lawyers and academics, to establish a new human-rights organisation, Sex Matters”
“The Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Justice, Ofsted and the Equality and Human Rights Commission are among the 40 organisations”
“The Government Legal Department” (which advises other departments on what the law says)”
“with over ten thousand signatures to the Commission on Standards in Public Life.”
WTF?? What sort of world do you people live in?
“Kafkaesque nightmare” the writer calls this, and it is, also a VAST money hole where reason is drained of its blood for Woke insanity to make huge amounts of money to lawyers and give high pay to what are basically teams of parasites working in Douglas Adams kinds of ‘Ministries’ and NOGs and ‘Charities’ who do no good, but immense harm.
The Kafka part this all brings to mind if Metamorphosis’ where the petty, useless and obstructionist, bureaucrat is so miserable he turns into a giant cockroach, which is exactly, Karmically, what all these ones above should do.
Little Dorrit and “The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office”. (Dickens)
Excellent. We have an international pandemic of a virus known as extreme transgenderism. We urgently need both treatment and inoculation from it.
The monsters from the id have infected the minds of humanity.
The interesting thing is that international development organisations deal only with countries who agree with Maya. I wonder what feedback they got from developing countries over this affair.
No feedback. They took the money and kept their mouths shut.
What you describe, and everything going on now reminds me of Alice in Wonderland. What you went through, and the arguments used against you are absurd, to the level of farce. I think though that you, and other people who share your beliefs need to unite and be like a loud, nuanced choir, rather than voices in the wilderness of hysterical, not based in science screeds. The same people who can’t tell us what a woman is, and try to browbeat us into believing that men can give birth, also tell us to vaccinate for C19, because we must, because it’s science. Keep up the good work, and unite.
The existing legal framework that Maya hides behind is a creation of feminist activists and others who regarded earlier laws as outdated and campaigned to have changed, sometimes using aggressive and underhand tactics. What Maya is essentially demanding is that legal evolution should cease because she likes the law as it stands. She has advanced biological and scientific arguements in support of her position. The reactionaries in earlier generations did the same thing.
Laws should made by elected representatives not lawyers and judges.No sane person thinks the law is static.Ducking stools anyone or perhaps a bit of hanging drawing and quartering?
Well that is a good soundbite, until you remember that England and Wales is a “common law” jurisdiction and law has been made by the courts for time immemorial. So laws here should be made by lawyers and judges because that is our tradition and it works!
That’s not actually true. Laws become laws when the sovereign gives a parliamentary bill royal assent. The courts then interpret it’s application to particular cases, building up a body of case law over time.
As to the view “That there are two sexes, and that people cannot literally change sex, are plain statements of fact that also align with British law.” this also aligns with medical fact. Any person, of any gender can only be at risk of getting either cervical or prostate cancer. This is determined by your sex.