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If you have been on twitter today you have probably seen everyone talking about this tweet by JK Rowling:

JK Rowling has posted TERFy things before but this is the most explicit. She is referring to an employment tribunal that was brought forward by a woman, Maya Forstater, who had not had her contract renewed due to being repeatedly transphobic (including repeatedly and purposefully mispronouning a person who uses they/them pronouns).

Rowling’s tweet is spreading misinformation about the employment tribunal:  The case wasn’t about whether you can or cannot say sex is real. Maya Forstater’s case was about whether discriminating against trans people is a legally protected right (not about her own employment) as she admits here:

The money for the case (around £80k) was raised through transphobic platforms such as Mums net.

Here is where the good news bit comes in: Forstater’s case was not successful. This means transphobes just paid £80k of their own money to give trans people more rights!  LMFAO! This case law/new precedent has strengthened legal protections for trans people in England!

The judge in the case ruled that TERF/’Gender critical’ views are “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others” and that TERFs do not have the right to ignore a trans persons gender

That refusing to respect someone’s gender and use their pronouns is an “approach not worthy of respect in a democratic society”

and concludes that being transphobic is not a political belief protected by equality laws

(15+15=30

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here’s the one for the last day <3 @yazzdonut

also this should entirely be accessible to anyone who’s done just enough calculus to talk about maxima and minima of continuously differentiable functions, which means either high school or undergrad calc, depending on your educational path; don’t be so worried ;p

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