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Regulator to write to universities in England over transgender equality policies
2025-04-24 00:45:02| Spiritual Career Counseling
Englands higher education regulator has said it is writing to institutions that have transgender equality policies similar to the University of Sussex, which was handed a record 585,000 fine last month for failing to uphold freedom of speech.The Office for Students (OfS) said it would not yet name the vice-chancellors being contacted, but we will be writing to a handful of providers where we have identified that they have on the face of it similar policies in this area to Sussex.The scale of Sussexs fine, 15 times larger than any previous penalty levied by the OfS, sent shock waves through the education sector, prompting many universities to review their own policies and contact lawyers for advice.The OfS judgment followed a three-and-a-half year investigation into the universitys treatment of Kathleen Stock, who resigned from her position as a philosophy professor at Sussex after she became the target of protests over her views on gender identification and transgender rights...
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