My name is Julie Ashall.

I am a member of the Women's Rights Network in Manchester and hold Gender Critical beliefs. I believe that sex is immutable, observed at birth and that a man cannot become a woman no matter what he believes. 

I believe that Gender Identity ideology has no place in the workplace but that it is an ever encroaching and pernicious philosophy. It strives to strip away the hard won rights of women and girls and replace them with rights of entry, the right to be offended by biological reality and the truth, and the right to take by force that which wouldn't be given freely. 

We have already seen the ever increasing encroachment into women's sports, the disastrous SNP Gender Recognition Reform bill, and the safeguarding failures of the Gender Identity Clinic. 

I was dismissed from my role in Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce due to, I believe, my whistleblowing about gender ideology and because of discrimination against me due to my gender critical beliefs, and in particular disclosures relating to a high profile PR company that represents global and public funded organisations based in the region that the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce works with. I have therefore claimed against Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and have a trial set down for March 2024. 

As a general point, I believe that workers should be free to point out the wrongs that are being carried out in a company or elsewhere without being subject to bullying, victimisation or retaliation. I believe that workers should be free from discrimination because of their views.  

We have already had a preliminary hearing which has set down the next steps in my case. I have to file a schedule of loss and then carry out disclosure and exchange witness statements. As I say above, the trial is already set down for trial and we will have a resolution to my case by Spring in 2024. 

We are raising an initial £1,500 in order that I can pay my lawyer for the time already spent on my case. If I am able to reach that target, then my stretch goal will be £50,000 so that I can take my case all the way to trial. 

I have instructed Elliot Hammer who acted for Sonia Appleby in her successful whistleblowing claim against the Gender Identity Clinic. 

I will keep you updated throughout my case to let you know what is happening. 

I would like to thank you for reading my Crowd Funder. If you can please share it on social media, donate or even simply talk about my case and Gender Critical beliefs in general then I would be very grateful.