Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: Teacher tribunal, Tavistock fears and Saltburn

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💬 This week:

• Teacher. The ruling from perhaps the most important Employment Tribunal around gender-critical beliefs barely got any coverage this week. We explain why.
• Tavistock. As the world marks Transgender Day of Visibility and the joy of being gender-diverse, England's only gender identity service for kids will close. We look at the leaked emails that show clinicians are worried.
• Saltburn. Will we look back at the film like Silence Of The Lambs: as a moment where cinema amplified a harmful and prejudiced trope? Diffwys Criafol explores in the Queer Gaze.

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Teacher’s gender-critical beliefs are protected but his actions weren’t, Employment Tribunal rules

TL;DR: An employment tribunal sided with a college who fired a teacher for bullying and harassing a transgender student. It affirms what previous high profile 'gender critical' employment tribunals have found: beliefs are protected, but acting on them to discriminate is not.