Hannah

Hannah lost her job as a primary school teacher after raising safeguarding concerns over a child that was socially ‘transitioning’ gender at her school.

What’s at stake?

• Children shouldn’t be told that they might be born in the wrong body. Affirming a child’s false identity leads to harmful beliefs and dangerous medicine. Other children are also influenced to believe in or go along with trans ideology.
• Teachers should be free to responsibly pursue genuine safeguarding concerns about a child and about a school’s social transitioning policies.
• Hannah’s identity is being kept secret by the courts despite there being no real risk of identifying the child involved. This significantly stops her being able to share her story effectively and publicly and challenge the way she has been treated.

Support Hannah

Hannah is receiving help from the Christian Legal Centre to take her case forwards.

We provide this support completely free of charge to Hannah and others like her.

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Timeline

2021:

• Summer: Hannah is informed that Child X, an 8-year-old, would be joining her class and should be treated as transgender. Because of the scientific evidence and her Christian beliefs, she could not in good conscience go along with this.
• September: The school suspends ‘Hannah’ for failure to comply with a reasonable request.
• October: Hannah’s suspension is lifted, with Child X in a different class. However, her concerns about the wellbeing of Child X and the school’s social transitioning policy remain, so she raises a safeguarding concern.

2022:

• February: After the school dismissed Hannah’s evidence, without properly engaging with it, Hannah raises her concern with the local authority, flagging that the officer advising the school was part of the Stonewall Champions scheme. The local authority dismisses her concerns.
• Having continued to see that Child X was ‘seriously distressed’, Hannah pursues legal action, accessing and responsibly sharing details that justified her concerns with her legal team. Hannah is dismissed for gross misconduct.
• 25 October: Hannah’s judicial review case is refused by Mrs Justice Farbey

2023:

• May: Hannah launches legal action in the Employment Tribunal against her school for her dismissal. She also shares that the school reported her to the Information Commissioner, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA). The Information Commissioner and DBS decline to censure Hannah, but the TRA continues to investigate her.
• June: Nottinghamshire County Council proposes that Hannah re-mortgages her house to immediately pay £14,000 legal costs from her judicial review case

2024:

• March: Hannah’s Employment Tribunal begins. However, on day 6 of the trial, the entire panel recuses itself over perception of bias. One member, Jed Purkis, is revealed to have posted on social media advocating for religious discrimination
• August: Jed Purkis is formally rebuked by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office for misconduct

2025:

• March: Hannah’s retrial begins at the Employment Tribunal. Again, a member of the panel is recused over apparent bias.
• May: Ruling on the Employment Tribunal case, Judge Peter McTigue dismisses Hannah’s claim and forces Hannah to remain anonymous, claiming that the child has a right to hide their biological sex “for the remainder of their life”, including in particular from their future “partners” and from even from the child’s own future children. Hannah pledges to take her case to the Employment Appeal Tribunal with the support of the Christian Legal Centre.

Videos and media coverage

• ITV News speaks to Hannah about her judicial review case
• The Times: Teacher faces remortgaging home to pay costs of transgender pupil row
• Hannah speaks to GB News about her case: ‘Jesus Christ said don’t harm children’
• Round the Table livestream: Chief Executive Andrea Williams and expert Andre van Mol speak about Hannah’s case

Support Hannah

Hannah is receiving help from the Christian Legal Centre to take her case forwards.

We provide this support completely free of charge to Hannah and others like her.

Make a donation today to help this work continue.