#allison bailey

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Midnight Pals: Holyrood

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: what newssss from the kingdomsss Kathleen Stock: terrible bone-chilling news, dark lord!! Rowling: sspeak Stock: well, you know the holyrood? Rowling: Rowling: the what

Stock: you know, the holyrood Rowling: Stock: it's the scottish parliament Rowling: OH Rowling: yeah yeah of courssse Rowling: i totally know what that iss Rowling: not like i'm ssome carpetbagger or ssomething here haha Rowling: born and bred right here in thiss sscottish casstle, that's me haha

Stock: anyway, the holyrood Rowling: right, the holyrood Rowling: and that's a real thing, this holyrood? Stock: yeah it's totally real Rowling: i'm jussst assking cuz it kinda ssoundss like ssomething i'd make up in one of my bookss Rowling: you're not funning me are you? Stock: never, dark lord!

Stock: they just had elections for the holyrood, dark lord! Rowling: oh good! i'm ssure that after our relentless decade-long campaign of public transsphobia and the institutional capture of all british media and government that not a ssingle transs persson wass elected, right? Stock:

Rowling: becausssse i feel like, after all we've done to banish them from public life, the bare minimum metric for successsss would be that they can't get elected to office, right? Stock: Rowling: right? Stock: Rowling: right?

Stock: actually your dark lord you are now represented in the holyrood by a [mumbles] Rowling: what wass that? Stock: [mumbles] Rowling: i didn't quite get that Julie Bindel: she said [mumbles]

Rowling: foolss!! idiotss!! bumbling nincompoopssss! Rowling: once again, you fail me! Rowling: i think you'll find that the dark lord'ss patience hass limitsss Stock: no, dark lord! Rowling: kathleen, hand over your secret blueberry inflation erotica stash Stock: no, dark lord!!!!! Stock: no!!!!!!!

Rowling: julie bindel!! Bindel: [wearing tape over mouth to signify the erasure of gender critical viewpoints from media] mmff? Rowling: you're not fit to wear that tape! [rips off tape] Bindel: nooo! that stings!!! Bindel: oh the pain! Bindel: how hard it is being a uterus-haver!!!

Rowling: allison bailey! Rowling: you know what i want from you Allison Bailey: [clutching briefcase] i Bailey: i don't know what you're talking about Rowling: hand over your ssspaghetti Bailey: spaghetti? haha what are you talking about Bailey: these are important legal briefs

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“A barrister has been awarded £22,000 after winning part of a tribunal claim that she was discriminated against because of her gender-critical views.

Allison Bailey, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers (GCC) in London, said her views wrongly resulted in her being labelled as transphobic, in 2019.

GCC was found to have discriminated against her by tweeting it would investigate her tweets that rejected the idea biological sex can change.

She lost her case against Stonewall.

The LGBT charity worked with GCC, which had joined its "diversity champions" scheme. Ms Bailey accused Stonewall of "trans-extremism".

The barrister of 30 years told the hearing at the Central London Employment Tribunal that, as a result of her treatment, her income had been left "substantially reduced" in comparison to previous years.

She said she had been given a reduced quality of work, in order to "break" her spirit.

The tribunal upheld her complaint against GCC over her view that no-one can change their biological sex, with her take on this subject being found to be protected in law.

However, Ms Bailey, who is a lesbian, lost her discrimination claim against Stonewall. In response to the outcome, the barrister said it showed that she had been victimised.

In a statement following the ruling, Stonewall said it was pleased with the outcome of the tribunal.

"The case heard by the employment tribunal did not accurately reflect our intentions and our influence on organisations," the statement said.

"Leaders within organisations are responsible for the organisational culture and the behaviour of their employees and workers.

"Stonewall's resources, support and guidance is just one set of inputs they use to help them as they consider how best to meet the needs of their own organisation."

The tribunal also rejected Ms Bailey's claim against her chambers that she had lost work and income because of her beliefs.

GCC said the ruling had rejected the main claims against it, and that it was considering an appeal.

In 2019, Ms Bailey founded the LGB Alliance, a charity that supports lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

The group opposes many Stonewall policies.

Ms Bailey said she had raised more than £500,000 from about 9,000 individual donors to fund her legal case.”

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Natalie Daradich // Jeanna de Waal // Hayley Podschun // Carrie St. Louis // Amanda Jane Cooper // Allison Bailey // Jackie Raye // Jennafer Newberry // Brittney Johnson

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What's your take on the whole allison bailey situation that happened a few days ago?

So I'd heard bits and pieces of this, but had to do some research into the background of the topic to be truly informed, as I am not British.

TL;DR: I think Allison Bailey is a bigoted transphobe who got her feelings hurt when she got called out for said transphobia, and the strong anti-trans sentiment in the UK right now contributed to the court upholding SOME of her claims.

For my non-UK followers:

There are three main players here:

Allison Bailey is a barrister in London, aka she's a lawyer. She is also the co-founder of the LGB alliance, an anti-trans organization specifically created to combat the "gender extremism" of Stonewall.

Garden Court Chambers: a court of law where she worked.

Stonewall: Not the USA Stonewall, but named and inspired by them, this is a charity in the UK devoted to LGBT rights.

Stonewall created the Diversity Champions programme in 2001, which worked to try to ensure LGBT people felt safe in workplaces. Employers could pay to join the programme, which gave them access to resources and allowed the programme to review the employer's LGBT policies, as well as other things.

As many people are aware, there has been an uptick in UK transphobia in recent years, and so it's no surprise that in 2020 the Diversity Champions programme was accused of preferentially promoting trans rights, and several prominent organizations have withdrawn from the Diversity Champions programme in the past two years.

Stonewall arguably hasn't been perfect throughout the years, but no organization is. They have taken steps, it seems, to address the problems that have been encountered. I can't represent the opinions of trans UK folks, only myself as an American based on what I've read of them. Overall they truly seem like a good organization trying its absolute best in an ever changing world to promote the rights of all queer people.

And that is a problem for British transphobes like Allison Bailey.

In 2019, Allison Bailey co-founded the LGB Alliance, an organization specifically created to go against Stonewall and its "gender extremism". There is no question that the LGB Alliance is transphobic, there is no question it is bigoted and hateful.

At some point between 2019 and 2020, Allison Bailey made some tweets promoting the LGB Alliance that her bosses, the Garden Court Chambers, investigated as transphobic. She felt this was discrimination against her, and she sued both the Garden Court Chambers and Stonewall.

The final court decision was that the Garden Court Chambers did discriminate against her when it announced on Twitter that she would be investigated about her two transphobic tweets, and it discriminated against her for ruling those tweets were a breach of her duties as a barrister. She was awarded some money for "emotional damages". However, all of her other claims were dismissed, including other claims against Garden Court Chambers, and ALL of her claims against Stonewall.

Personally, I think part of the ruling is nonsense; I could see the logic in saying "Hey, you shouldn't announce you're investigating someone". However, it is not discrimination to find someone guilty of bigotry, and she absolutely is guilty of bigotry. The Garden Court was not wrong in its ruling on her behavior.

Overall, I don't think this case has "crushed Stonewall" as some are claiming; Stonewall was found not at fault and all of the charges against it were dismissed, but maybe someone from the UK has a better perspective of the feeling on the streets about this case.

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