Council pays social worker £54k in compensation after admitting discriminating against her for gender-critical views

A council has paid a social worker £54,000 in compensation after admitting disciminating against her for her gender-critical views.

Cambridgeshire county council has backed down in its legal battle against Lizzy Pitt.

Pitt, who describes herself as “a lesbian who believes that sex is real” expressed her belief that sex was a matter of biology at a meeting in January 2023.

She also said that people cannot change sex, that men have ruined women’s sport by competing as women and that biological men should not be allowed in women-only spaces.

Five colleagues then proceeded to file a formal complaint against her, months later, allegedly accusing her of “traumatising” them with “symbolic” violence.

One of them said they couldn’t sleep for two nights “thinking about this cruelty”, while another said they had suffered from anxiety dreams.

The council proceeded to launch a probe into Pitt’s behaviour, with the investigation concluding that she had “made comments that were non-inclusive and caused considerable offence”.

As a result she was issued with a management instruction and suspended from the LGBT network for a year.

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