Free speech row | Court hears appeal of teacher sacked over LGBTQ+ social media posts

A teaching assistant who was sacked over social media posts relating to LGBTQ+ education will have an appeal heard by judges, after a previous ruling had upheld her dismissal.

Kristie Higgs was sacked from Farmor’s School in Gloucestershire in 2019 for sharing two Facebook posts that raised concerns about how transgender and compulsory sex education was to be taught at her son’s Church of England (CofE) primary school.