A gay volunteer was banned from a railway group after expressing his gender-critical views on email and social media.
Matthew Toomer, 48, was thrown out of West Midlands Railway’s “Adopt a Station” scheme after he privately contacted company bosses to express concern about its “Progress Pride” train.
WMR rebranded one of its trains last summer with a “rainbow diamond motif” that bares similarities to the Progress Pride flag, which features a yellow diamond. It was also named “Hurst Street” after the Birmingham road at the centre of the city’s Gay Village.
