The U.K. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Kristie Higgs, a Christian who was fired from her role as a school counselor after she expressed her concern about primary schools teaching transgender ideology to students. Christian Legal Centre (CLC), which represented her, called the win “groundbreaking.”
In 2019, Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire, fired Higgs from her role as pastoral assistant, a role similar to a school counselor in the U.S, which she had held for seven years. The dismissal occurred after Higgs discovered that the Church of England primary school her son attended would be using a compulsory sex education program that teaches gender ideology to students as young as 4.
On her private Facebook account, she referenced the increase of children’s books with transgender ideology in American schools, writing, “This is happening in our primary schools now.” Her second post contained a petition link labeled “Uphold the right of parents to have children educated in line with their religious beliefs. Stop supporting LGBT indoctrination.” Neither post referenced the school her son attended.
One of Higgs’ Facebook friends discovered her post and filed a complaint to Farmor’s School. The school reacted by suspending Higgs and interrogating her for six hours, comparing her to a “pro-Nazi right-wing extremist” while saying she had no “absolute right” to express her beliefs freely.
In 2019, the school fired her on the grounds of “gross misconduct,” stating that she had committed “illegal discrimination” and “serious inappropriate use of social media” and had used “online comments that could bring the school into disrepute and damage the reputation of the school.” […]
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