The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Now even word ‘maternity’ faces ban at PC university

- By Sanchez Manning

BRITAIN’S ‘wokest’ university is facing claims that its staff objected to the use of the word ‘maternity’ and allowed men identifyin­g as women to use its campus swimming pool.

The allegation­s against Bristol University emerged as PhD student Raquel RosarioSan­chez prepares for a sex discrimina­tion and negligence case against the institutio­n.

She claims it failed to tackle transgende­r activists who subjected her to a two-year hate campaign for attending feminist meetings that opposed allowing men who identify as women into female-only spaces.

The whistleblo­wer said she had been contacted by several female academics, including one responsibl­e for writing staff policy related to families who claims that, despite removing the words ‘woman’, ‘she’ and ‘her’ from the maternity policy, she was told by diversity chiefs that the term ‘maternity’ was now ‘problemati­c’.

One lecturer said she and her eight-yearold daughter had come across men who were male-bodied and ‘wearing men’s clothes’ in the changing area at the pool.

A university spokesman said: ‘Ms RosarioSan­chez has chosen to take legal action. Given this, we will not comment further.’

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