Trans rights activist on panel judging Christian ‘sacked by school over views on gender’

‘A TRANS rights campaigner who led calls to scrap women-only toilets is on a judging panel hearing the case of a Christian teaching assistant sacked for speaking out against lessons in which primary school children learn they can change gender.
Edward Lord, a well-known LGBT activist, has been chosen to advise a tribunal judge during an appeal by Kristie Higgs, who lost her job as a school pastoral assistant after sharing a petition on her Facebook page against extending sex and relationship education.Lawyers for Mrs Higgs have applied for the 50-year-old to be removed from the panel amid concerns that she will not get a fair hearing when the case is heard in London next week.

The mother-of-two was sacked after sharing concerns about lessons at the Church of England primary school attended by her nine-year-old son.

Ms Higgs insists her only motive was her view that her son was too young to understand what it means to change sex. As a practising Christian, this went against her beliefs.
During a six-hour disciplinary hearing that resulted in her dismissal, a school governor compared her posts to those of a ‘Nazi far-Right extremist’ and it emerged the school had also snooped on her emails.‘

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