From the BBC website:
The head of Britain's equality watchdog is being investigated after bullying and discrimination allegations were made by staff.
The claims against Baroness Falkner, and other members of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board, were seen by Channel 4 News.
Baroness Falkner said she will present a "detailed rebuttal" to the investigators working on the case.
Some campaigners say the EHRC is not protecting transgender rights.
Last year campaigners called for the EHRC's status as an independent group to be revoked over a row about its response to Scotland's plans to make it easier for people to change their sex on their birth certificate.
Further tensions have since emerged after Baroness Falkner advised the UK government that it was worth considering redefining sex as "biological sex" in the Equality Act, in an area that she described as "polarised and contentious".
A clarification to the Equality Act could make it easier to exclude transgender people from single-sex spaces.
Earlier this month, 30 LGBTQ+ charities led by Stonewall wrote to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, saying the EHRC was a "failed institution" and "set on a course that would lead directly to a rolling back of trans people's rights in Great Britain".
Details of the allegations have not been shared by the watchdog, but Channel 4 News reported on Tuesday that some staff had said:
there had been an "increase in bullying, harassment and discrimination" within the EHRC
impartiality and independence from government is "under threat"
the EHRC chair and board have been "assisting the government in undermining trans rights by proposing amendments to the Equality Act".