After recruiting a transgender activist who made offensive remarks about biological women, senior prosecutors have been chastised.
Despite earlier pushing for the word “woman” to be substituted with “womxn,” Sophie Cook, 54, has taken up a key diversity and inclusion position at the Crown Prosecution Service.
The activist has also used the abbreviation TERF — trans-exclusionary radical feminist — in a series of tweets, a loaded word aimed at women who believe sex is biological and unchangeable.
Ms Cook will be’responsible for increasing confidence amongst our personnel in being able to speak honestly about their experiences’ in her new £31,000-a-year post as the CPS’s’speak-out advocate.’
Ms Cook will work only four days a week, largely from home, according to the CPS job posting, but she will be required to attend meetings in person if necessary.
Lawyers and advocacy groups, on the other hand, have demanded assurances that female employees who voice concerns about trans activism will not be hushed or discriminated against.
They are concerned that Ms Cook will use her powerful position to ’embed’ her values at the core of the body charged with prosecuting serious crime in England and Wales.
Ms Cook claims to be the ’13th most influential figure in Brighton’ and identifies herself as a ‘writer, speaker, actress, broadcaster, and photographer.’
She describes herself as a ‘LGBT & mental health campaigner,’ a Royal Air Force veteran, and a’self-harm and suicide survivor,’ according to her website.
‘This is a wonderful post that provides me the opportunity to make a genuine impact,’ Ms Cook tweeted after being appointed this week.
Concerns have been raised, however, over prior tweets in which Ms Cook used the phrase TERF, according to The New York Times.