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Trans: free speech update

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  • March 2021

We have excellent laws on free speech. These include the freedom to disagree on transgenderism.

Many in our society speak about gender ideology as if everyone must agree. Christians are being put on the spot, aware that anyone who objects is quickly labelled hateful or transphobic. It’s no surprise that people are reluctant to say what they really think.

References

References

  1. 1Bell and another v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 3274 (Admin)
  2. 2Ibid, para. 139
  3. 3Ibid, para. 137
  4. 4Ibid, para. 132
  5. 5Ibid, para. 74; see also para. 126
  6. 6Ibid, paras 145 and 147
  7. 7Scottow v Crown Prosecution Service [2020] EWHC 3421 (Admin)
  8. 8Ibid, para. 54
  9. 9Ibid, para. 43
  10. 10Ibid, para. 47
  11. 11Miller v College of Policing, EWHC 225 (Admin), 14 February 2020
  12. 12Maya Forstater v CGD Europe (and others), 2200909/2019, 18 December 2019
  13. 13For example, Lord Sumption in The Times online, 9 January 2020, see https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/should-thinking-the-law-is-wrong-count-as-a-philosophical-belief-xmsg75j52 as at 23 April 2020; also ‘The Forstater Employment Tribunal judgment: a critical appraisal in light of Miller’, Karon Monaghan, UK Labour Law Blog, 19 February 2020, see https://uklabourlawblog.com/2020/02/19/the-forstater-employment-tribunal-judgment-a-critical-appraisal-in-light-of-miller-by-karon-monaghan/ as at 23 April 2020
  14. 14The Telegraph online, 8 February 2020, see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/08/starbucks-new-charity-associations-leave-bitter-taste/ as at 25 February 2021
  15. 15Holyrood online, 4 November 2019, see https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,cofounder-of-stonewall-calls-for-calm_14648.htm as at 25 February 2021; The Times online, 22 September 2019, see https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-tax-plan-corrodes-rule-of-law-sbh2f09n2?ni-statuscode=acsaz-307 as at 25 February 2021
  16. 16J K Rowling tweet, 6-7 June 2020, see https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269389298664701952?lang=en as at 25 February 2021
  17. 17The Guardian online, 2 March 2020, see https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced as at 25 February 2021
  18. 18The Economist online, 3 July 2018, see https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/03/gender-identity-needs-to-be-based-on-objective-evidence-rather-than-feelings as at 25 February 2021

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