Win a New iPhone 11 PRO: Fired tax expert says a person's sex should not be conflated with the idea of 'gender identity' . A tax expert fired for saying 'men cannot change into women' today told an employment tribunal that sex is about biology and that it's not possible to 'literally change sex.' Maya Forstater, 46, claims she lost her job at a top London think tank for speaking out about women's rights and gender self identification on social media.
She was told by her managers that she had used 'offensive and exclusionary' language, the tribunal heard.
The internationally renowned researcher on tax avoidance spoke of the difference between sex and gender and how she believes they can often be confused.
She took the stand at the Central London Employment Tribunal in legal proceedings against her former employer, the Centre for Global Development (CGD).
Ms Forstater said it is a test case to show that people should not be discriminated against for having gender critical views.
In her statement provided to the court, Ms Forstater, who trained in biology, said: 'When I had thought about transgender people, I had understood them to be their biological sex and I would treat people in the way they would like to be treated.
'But I did not think people could literally change sex.
'I did not think about it much because I did not think anybody thought that people could literally change sex.
'From the earliest I can remember, I have understood that there is one sex or the other.'
She added: 'Sex is a fundamental feature of life, of plants and animals and mammals.
'It goes back way older than race. I think people understood that there are two sexes before Christianity.'
Ms Forstater, who refers to herself as a female, a woman and a mother, said she believed a person's sex should not be 'conflated' with the idea of gender.
She said in her witness statement: 'Gender is often used as a synonym for sex.
'I
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