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Researcher Who Lost Job After Tweets About Biological Sex Awarded £100,000 From U.K. Employment Tribunal

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Researcher Maya Forstater lost her job at a think tank, the Centre for Global Development (CGD), after tweeting that transgender women could not change their biological sex.

Yes I think that male people are not women. I dont think being a woman/female is a matter of identity or womanly feelings. It is biology. People of either sex should not be constrained (or discriminated against) if they dont conform to traditional gender expectations

— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) September 25, 2018

In 2019, Forstater lost an employment tribunal for her beliefs. At the time the judge said, that her view is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.”

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