I lost my job for speaking up about women’s rights

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3 points·josu··6 comments

So, I support her right to have personal opinions about what constitutes a person of the female gender.

However, I also support her employers right to choose not to continue to employ someone who creates a toxic environment for other employees, especially when the only crime those other employees might have committed was to be born into a body of the wrong pairing of X and Y chromosomes.

This is the first time seeing a TERF in the wild. I am saddened by her opinions. Having many trans friends, I believe that trans women are women too.

Do you also believe that people who think otherwise should be fired?

It seems she was fired for singling out and harassing a colleague, not for her opinions.

I can see no evidence that she singled out and harassed anyone. I've read several articles about this story, and they all mention that she was engaged in conversations on Twitter with various people, but nothing about "singling out and harassing a colleague". Could you share the source you got that information from?

From the article

>I've got a Q for my male twitter friends who have pledged not to appear on all male panels - if u were invited on a panel w Pip Bunce - one of FT's top 100 female champions of women in biz & another guy would u say yes or call the organisers & say sorry i don't do #manels?

>This question sparked several threads of discussion and I wrote about 150 tweets over the course of a week [...] The tone of these discussions was one of ordinary discussion and disagreement, but not long after I received an email from HR

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