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.

So if it meets the criteria and is "protected", that means you don't have to share it?

It means you shouldnt face discrimination for believing or not believing. Like you shouldn't face discrimination in employment or as a service user for being a Catholic, or not being a Catholic, say.