Maya Forstater, 51, the chief executive of the charity Sex Matters, revealed that she has been under investigation by the Metropolitan Police for the alleged crime of malicious communications, which carries a punishment of up to two years in prison.
The alleged crime related to a June 2023 post Forstater wrote on X, formerly Twitter, about Dr. Kamilla Kamaruddin, a trans-identified biological male and former general practitioner.
After Dr. Kamaruddin transitioned to female, Kamaruddin told a magazine that she was allowed to perform "more intimate examinations that they did not let me to do when I was a male GP [sic]."
Kamaruddin, who was listed as a female on the clinic's website, added that "new patients did not ask any questions at all because they either thought I was a female GP or it did not bother them at all that I was a transgender doctor."
In response to Kamaruddin's comments, Forstater wrote that the trans doctor "enjoys intimately examining female patients without their consent."
Forstater's post directed readers to a previous blog post in which she had expressed concerns about whether or not Kamaruddin's female patients were able to properly consent to being examined by a transgender doctor.
Forstater then found herself under investigation by Scotland Yard in Aug. 2023 and said on Tuesday that she was interviewed under caution at the Charin Cross police station in Sept. She said she was threatened with arrest if she did not attend the interview, per The Times.
The women's rights activist believes she is the victim of "bullying and harassment" and has contemplated taking legal action against Met Police. She said she is still under investigation and has not heard anything about the case in ten months.
Forstater told The Post Millennial that she stands by her tweet.
"If these women were told they were seeing a female doctor then they did not give informed consent to being seen by a male doctor," said Forstater. "At the very least the CQC — the regulator which inspects GPs should — should have considered this. There is a male doctor here posing as a woman. Are the women who are examined by him really able to consent freely or are they they being coerced or misinformed?"
"But instead the CQC just recorded that he was a 'female' doctor," she continued. " Sex by deception is a crime in UK law — the law recognises that when it comes to sexual contact it is sex that matters."
A Met Police spokesperson told The Times: "Since this allegation was reported in June 2023, a number of enquiries have been carried out by officers. These enquiries are ongoing. While it is right that we carry out a full investigation, we do recognise the length of time this has taken so far and the impact it will undoubtedly have had on all parties."
In June 2021, Forstater won an appeal against an employment tribunal after she had been fired over a tweet in which she stated that people cannot change their biological sex. She was awarded compensation for discrimination and victimization at work.
