Sunday 19 June 2022 12:52 AM Trans rights activist to judge on case of teaching assistant sacked over gender ... trends now
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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.
Teaching assistant Kristie Higgs (pictured) was sacked after voicing concerns about teaching children they can change gender at a Church of England primary school attended by her nine-year-old son. Mrs Higgs has appealed this decision and will face a judging panel
Lord, who uses the pronouns ‘they, them and their’, is refusing to step down. A Liberal Democrat politician who identifies as ‘non-binary’, Lord has campaigned in favour of allowing transgender women to use female-only spaces.
As an elected member of the City of London Corporation, Lord was head of an equality committee that changed rules to allow transgender swimmers full access to Hampstead Heath’s ladies’ pond in 2019.
Lord has been vocal on Twitter about allowing trans women to use female-only spaces, yet attracted claims of hypocrisy when it emerged the activist was a Freemason, a men-only organisation.
Lord was awarded an OBE in 2013 and has sat as
