A Bafta-nominated composer has been suspended from the company he co-founded after expressing his support for JK Rowling and her views on transgender issues.

Christian Henson, 50, shared a video on Twitter of Graham Linehan, the television writer who goes by the name ‘Glinner’, in which he referred to legal action against the Tavistock gender clinic in London.

In a post accompanying Linehan’s video, Henson said: “As a parent I can no longer keep my mouth shut about this. I’m in full support of glinner & @jk_rowling.” His tweet amassed nearly 1,000 retweets and more than 3,000 likes before Henson closed his Twitter account.

This was followed by a statement from Spitfire Audio which said that Henson had stepped down from his role at the company, which he co-founded in 2007.

Meanwhile, an employment tribunal in Nottingham has started hearing the case of a school chaplain who has claimed he was unfairly dismissed from his job after he opposed plans to promote an LGBT acceptance curriculum.

Rev Bernard Randall was made redundant from Trent College, in Derbyshire, at the end of 2021.

He said parts of the programme were incompatible with the Christian ethos of the fee-paying school as some of it was “ideologically loaded and misleading”.