Gender-critical social worker ‘blacklisted’ from jobs pending investigation into her comments on trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney modelling Nike sports bras
- Louise Chivers, 52, said comments she made have left her struggling for work
- She claimed a boss suggested there was a risk she ‘might misgender someone’
A social worker has said she is being prevented from applying for jobs pending an investigation after she was critical about transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney modelling a Nike sports bra.
Louise Chivers, 52, claims a manager at Leicestershire County Council suggested there was a risk she ‘might misgender someone’.
It came after the mother-of-two described Mulvaney, who identifies as female, as ‘a skinny gay man with no t*ts’ during a recent training day, The Telegraph reports.
Chivers, who has now reportedly been referred to Social Work England over her comments, also labelled the TikToker a ‘misogynist who mocks women’ over her content.
TikTok influencer Mulvaney, 26, uses her platform to document her transition from male to female and has received abuse from some quarters after appearing in adverts for US brands including Nike and Bud Light over recent months.
Louise Chivers, 52, claims a manager at Leicestershire County Council suggested there was a risk she ‘might misgender someone’
Chivers, a lesbian from Northamptonshire who works in adult social care, said that she had told colleagues that she ‘would struggle to buy Nike clothes any more’.
She said this was because ‘I didn’t agree with Dylan Mulvaney advertising sports bras because I thought it made a mockery of women.
‘Afterwards, I was contacted by my managers who demanded to know what I had said. I was then told by the recruitment agencies that I use to apply for jobs that they would not find me work until conclusion of the investigation.
‘I feel like I’ve been blacklisted. The inference that because I am gender-critical, I must be transphobic’.
Chivers said she is now struggling for work and is worried about not getting another job, blasting the ‘powers that be’ who she said ‘appear to have been brainwashed on this issue.’
She said that she, ‘like a lot of people’, is ‘fed up with this obsession about gender ideology and just want to get on with my job’.
Dylan Mulvaney sparked controversy with her paid sponsorship for Nike Women
Leicestershire County Council said the matter had been referred to Social Work England.
Both the council and social work body have been contacted for comment.
Mulvaney, who was born male, began to document her gender transition in March 2022 in a daily series of videos published on TikTok.
The influencer, who has 11million followers on TikTok, has continued to share content responding to backlash she has received online.
She hit headlines after sharing a series of promotional posts with Bud Light beer cans with her face on it to celebrate her ‘365 days of girlhood’ on April 1.
The partnership has been credited with major losses for parent company Anheuser-Busch, who lost $27 billion in market cap value since the advert for March Madness.
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