In 2018, the researcher was at the forefront of controversy after posting various tweets about her beliefs about sex and gender, including that biological sex cannot be changed and that transgender women are “not women”.
Forstater also opposed the proposed reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), which would allow transgender people to self-identify and legally transition from the gender assigned to them at birth without being diagnosed by a medical professional.
The following year, her contract with employer Centre for Global Development (CGD) was not renewed after several of her colleagues filed complaints.
Forstater subsequently took the think-tank to an employment tribunal, where she argued that she was discriminated against for her