Maya Forstater

That requires the clients to hold the same philosophical belief as the trans person at the crisis centre (and you). Not very inclusivehttps://twitter.com/escaped_ferret/status/1177525728834969600 …

I'd hesitate to call it a philosophical belief, but I may be wrong.

That is precisely what @MForstater Employment Tribunal will decide. Whether the belief in gender identity (or more importantly for her, the non-belief) constitutes a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act. I think it does, as it meets the Grainger v Nicolson test

Oh, I see, thank you. I would have thought it was simply an opinion, and one that is tricky to substantiate. But I can see from what you say that this is a way of approaching it legally. I wonder how the law distinguishes between opinion and philosophical belief.