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Maya Forstater: ‘I am fighting for the right to say men can never be women’ Maya Forstater is at the centre of a fierce debate about transgender rights, with author JK Rowling rushing to her defence By Jane Gordon 23 April 2021 • 5:00am Maya Forstater: ‘I am fighting for the right to say men can never be women’  CREDIT: Delilah Maude Maya Forstater never expected to become famous, let alone infamous. Three years ago she was, in her own words, just a rather ordinary middle-aged, middle-class, working mother and wife. Opinionated, occasionally outspoken and politically engaged, she worked as a senior researcher at a prominent not-for-profit think tank, the  Center for Global Development  (CGD), based in Westminster, and had what she describes as an ‘active social-media presence’. Whether or not it was a little too active she is not saying (although she admits her husband probably thought so), but at the time that her life dramatically changed she was very vocal on...

Maya Forstater: Woman who lost job after claiming people cannot change biological sex wins tribunal Ms Forstater, 45, lost her job at the Centre for Global Development after she was accused of publishing 'offensive' tweets By Hayley Dixon,   SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT 10 June 2021 • 11:33am Maya Forstater, 45, was accused of publishing 'offensive' tweets  CREDIT: Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph A woman who lost her job after claiming people cannot change their biological sex has won a landmark appeal against an employment tribunal. Maya Forstater, 45, lost her job as a tax expert at the Centre for Global Development in March 2019 after she was accused of publishing “offensive” tweets questioning government proposals to allow people to self-identify as the opposite sex. Her legal dispute against her former employer was seen as a test case on whether a “gender critical” view – meaning a belief that there are only two biological sexes – can be a protected philosophical belie...