It's All Fun And Games Until You Realise You're Paying....

This is Pablo, the ‘gender-fluid’ dachshund at the centre of an 18-month long legal battle against a woke council, which has cost taxpayers more than £63,000. Lesbian social worker Lizzy Pitt was accused of voicing ‘transphobic’ views by her colleague, Gleicon Analha who is Pablo’s owner. He chaired a Zoom call for LGBTQIA+ employees of Cambridgeshire County Council where he said he identified his dachshund as ‘gender fluid’, and put a dress on the animal to prompt debate about gender.

The reporting on this has focussed entirely on the absurdity of a 'gender fluid dog', as expected, and not on the cancerous tumour of allowing a Zoom call for whingers, activists and nutters during worktime.... 

Brazilian-born Mr Analha, who is a young people worker on the council’s Targeted Support Team, complained about Ms Pitt’s comments, and that of another lesbian employee on the Zoom call. In submissions for the case, he described Ms Pitt’s colleague, who also worked in the social work department declaring ‘Your dog is male’ in response to his claims about its gender fluidity.

In an email to his bosses and the council’s HR team, he added: ‘We collected statements of the individuals; we want to take this further. All the LGBTQIA+ peer group agreed to share their statements and take this further.’ Later, he added: ‘Regarding the mental health impact, these transphobic and deeply hurtful attacks touch deeply my values, this is the second night that I couldn’t sleep thinking about the cruelty. This made me wake up overnight and use Saturday morning to write this email.’

This person is clearly utterly unfit to be employed even in this limited capacity. And it seems the council has enough like him to make regular Zoom calls to whinge and snipe at each other a thing! When do they do any actual work? 

Ms Pitt and another lesbian colleague were reported for their 'really aggressive tone' with views that were deemed to be 'non-inclusive and transphobic'. But when Ms Pitt was disciplined by bosses and banned from contacting members of the group or attending meetings, she took them to a tribunal for harassment.

Now, Ms Pitt has been awarded over £55,000 and won £8,000 in legal costs after a judge said records showed she suffered because of her 'gender-critical beliefs'.

Ah, if only that money came out of the pockets of Mr Analha and his line manager. But no, of course not. The taxpayer's paying! Again. 

On his LinkedIn bio, Mr Analha, who is also the council’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee Vice-Chair, says : ‘I grew up in Brazil seeing inequalities in my community, for example, on the same street millionaires' houses and "favelas" made of cardboard, I have seen friends dying of transphobia.’

And no 'journalist' challenges this statement? No-one dies of 'transphobia'!

Ms Pitt, who raised £51,529 for her legal case on a crowdfunding page from 2,121 donations, said: 'Let's hope that other employers will start to learn that it's a bad idea to try to stop lesbians asserting their boundaries and silence staff who know that sex is real, and sometimes matters.'

Well, yes, if that happens at least it'll be taxpayers money well spent, I suppose. But who thinks it will? 

A council spokesman said: 'We strive to create a safe, inclusive and compassionate environment for people to work in and recognise this needs to be balanced with everyone being entitled to express their own views and beliefs.

'We will reflect carefully on this final outcome, as well as undertaking a review of our policies and procedures accordingly.'

Doesn't sound like it to me. I suspect the Zoom meetings of the 'B' Ark candidates will continue, at our expense.