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The '''LGB Alliance''' is a British advocacy group founded in the UK in 2019, in opposition to the policies of [[LGBT]] rights charity [[Stonewall (charity)|Stonewall]] on [[transgender]] issues.<ref name="thetimes">{{Cite news |last=Hurst |first=Greg |date=24 October 2019 |title=Transgender dispute splits Stonewall |work=The Times |location=London |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/transgender-dispute-splits-stonewall-535v3qnb0 |access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> Its founders were Bev Jackson, Kate Harris, [[Allison Bailey]], Malcolm Clark and Ann Sinnott. It opposes gender-identity education in schools,<ref name="telegraph">{{Cite news |last=Tominey |first=Camilla |date=25 December 2020 |title=Lesbians facing 'extinction' as transgenderism becomes pervasive, campaigners warn |work=The Telegraph |location= London |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/25/lesbians-facing-extinction-transgenderism-becomes-pervasive/ |access-date=4 January 2021 }}</ref> a ban on [[conversion therapy]] for trans people in the UK, [[gender transitioning|gender-affirming care]] including [[Puberty blocker|puberty blockers]] for children reporting [[gender dysphoria]],<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news |last=Hunte |first=Ben |date=23 November 2020 |title=Trans teen in legal action over gender clinic wait |work=BBC News |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55015959 |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> and [[Gender Recognition Act 2004|gender recognition]] reform.<ref name="pinknews"/>
The '''LGB Alliance''' is a British advocacy group founded in the UK in 2019, in opposition to the policies of [[LGBT]] rights charity [[Stonewall (charity)|Stonewall]] on [[transgender]] issues.<ref name="thetimes">{{Cite news |last=Hurst |first=Greg |date=24 October 2019 |title=Transgender dispute splits Stonewall |work=The Times |location=London |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/transgender-dispute-splits-stonewall-535v3qnb0 |access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> Its founders were Bev Jackson, Kate Harris, [[Allison Bailey]], Malcolm Clark and Ann Sinnott. It has said that lesbians are facing “extinction” because of the “disproportionate” focus on transgenderism in schools,<ref name="telegraph">{{Cite news |last=Tominey |first=Camilla |date=25 December 2020 |title=Lesbians facing 'extinction' as transgenderism becomes pervasive, campaigners warn |work=The Telegraph |location= London |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/25/lesbians-facing-extinction-transgenderism-becomes-pervasive/ |access-date=4 January 2021 }}</ref> a ban on [[conversion therapy]] for trans people in the UK, [[gender transitioning|gender-affirming care]] including [[Puberty blocker|puberty blockers]] for children reporting [[gender dysphoria]],<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news |last=Hunte |first=Ben |date=23 November 2020 |title=Trans teen in legal action over gender clinic wait |work=BBC News |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55015959 |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> and [[Gender Recognition Act 2004|gender recognition]] reform.<ref name="pinknews"/>


The LGB Alliance describes its objective as "asserting the right of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men to define themselves as same-sex attracted", and states that such a right is threatened by "attempts to introduce confusion between biological [[sex]] and the notion of [[gender]]".<ref name="thetimes" />
The LGB Alliance describes its objective as "asserting the right of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men to define themselves as same-sex attracted", and states that such a right is threatened by "attempts to introduce confusion between biological [[sex]] and the notion of [[gender]]".<ref name="thetimes" />

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LGB Alliance
FormationSeptember 2019; 4 years ago (2019-09)
FounderBev Jackson
Kate Harris
Ann Sinnott
Allison Bailey
Malcolm Clark
Founded atUnited Kingdom
TypeNonprofit advocacy organisation
Registration no.limited company: 12338881 registered charity: 1194148 (England and Wales)
Legal statusActive
HeadquartersKemp House, London
Websitelgballiance.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

The LGB Alliance is a British advocacy group founded in the UK in 2019, in opposition to the policies of LGBT rights charity Stonewall on transgender issues.[1] Its founders were Bev Jackson, Kate Harris, Allison Bailey, Malcolm Clark and Ann Sinnott. It has said that lesbians are facing “extinction” because of the “disproportionate” focus on transgenderism in schools,[2] a ban on conversion therapy for trans people in the UK, gender-affirming care including puberty blockers for children reporting gender dysphoria,[3] and gender recognition reform.[4]

The LGB Alliance describes its objective as "asserting the right of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men to define themselves as same-sex attracted", and states that such a right is threatened by "attempts to introduce confusion between biological sex and the notion of gender".[1]

The LGB Alliance has been described by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights as transphobic, in a statement signed by a number of Labour MPs including current Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, and by SNP MP John Nicolson,[5][6][7] and by articles in two scholarly journals as "trans-exclusionary".[8][9] Hope not Hate and the Trades Union Congress have described the group as anti-trans.[10][11] It has also been described by Labour MPs and several LGBT organisations and activists as a hate group.[12][13][14][15] Both LGB Alliance Ireland and Australia have been listed as far-right extremist hate groups by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.[16][17]

The UK group was granted charitable status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales in April 2021, which was controversial with LGBT groups in the UK, fifty of whom signed an open letter condemning it.[18] A hearing for an appeal against its charitable status started in the First-tier Tribunal in September 2022.[19][20]

History

Malcolm Clark speaks to the Scottish Parliament in 2022

In September 2019, twenty-two people signed an open letter to The Sunday Times accusing leading UK gay-rights charity Stonewall of having "undermined women's sex-based rights and protections" through its policy on transgender issues.[21] It further stated that twelve months earlier, a group had asked Stonewall to commit to "fostering an atmosphere of respectful debate" with those who wished to question its transgender policies, but that Stonewall had refused to allow any such dialogue, and that "if Stonewall remains intransigent, there must surely now be an opening for a new organisation committed both to freedom of speech and to fact instead of fantasy."[21]

One month after the publication of the open letter, it was announced that a new group called the LGB Alliance had been launched.[1] The group was co-founded by Bev Jackson,[22] Kate Harris,[23] Allison Bailey,[24] Malcolm Clark,[25] and Ann Sinnott,[26] with the support of Simon Fanshawe,[27] who spoke at the initial meeting on 22 October 2019 along with Miranda Yardley and Charlie Evans.[28] Harris stated that:

The main difference is that lesbians, gays, and bisexuals have something in common because of our sexual orientation, that has nothing to do with being trans. We welcome the support of anyone — gay, straight or trans — as long as they support our commitment to freedom of speech and biological definitions of sex. So we are a very broad and accepting group. We will be called transphobic, but we're not.[27]

In October 2020, Ann Sinnott, a director of the LGB Alliance at the time, initiated a legal case calling for a judicial review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance on the Equality Act 2010, crowdfunding almost £100,000 for legal fees. The Alliance believes that the specifics of the Equality Act 2010 have been "misrepresented" by some organisations.[29] In May 2021 the case was found by the court to be unarguable, Justice Henshaw stating that "the claimant has shown no arguable reason to believe the Code has misled or will mislead service providers about their responsibilities under the Act."[30]

In June 2021, the LGB Alliance announced the appointment of five new trustees in addition to Harris, Jackson and documentary producer Malcolm Clark: co-founder of Shed Productions Eileen Gallagher OBE, strategy consultant Conrad Roebar, professor of philosophy Kathleen Stock OBE, professor of human rights law Robert Wintemute and Labour peer Lord Young of Norwood Green.[31] At the same time, Ann Sinnott announced her resignation as a director.[32]

In October 2021, the organisation was hosted with a stand at the Conservative Party Conference, which reportedly cost £6,000.[33][34] Later that month, the organisation hosted their own conference, with guests including MPs Joanna Cherry, Jackie Doyle-Price, and Rosie Duffield, as well as the television comedy writer and anti-trans activist Graham Linehan.[35][36][37] A protest against the Alliance was held outside the conference venue, attended by Daniel Lismore and the King's College London LGBT+ Society.[38][39]

On 5 November 2021, MP John Nicolson said that the Speaker of the House of Commons had referred "abuse and obsessive behaviour" from the Alliance to the House of Commons security as part of a review following the murder of David Amess. The Alliance had previously run a fundraising campaign for itself where it pledged that "make a donation to us IN HIS [Nicholson's] NAME and we will tweet out your message," subsequently tweeting a number of statements attacking Nicolson, including one that called him a "rape-enabling politician".[40] The fundraiser had been removed from the JustGiving and GoFundMe crowdfunding platforms for violating their rules.[41]

In May 2022, the organization urged the closure of all sex venues for one month, including saunas, leather bars and dark rooms, in response to the 2022 monkeypox outbreak.[42][43]

On 10 June 2022, the organization announced that they had received a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to create a helpline "for young lesbian, gay and bisexual people and their families and friends."[44]

Charitable status

Application

In March 2020, the LGB Alliance submitted an application for charitable status to the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Bev Jackson, a founder of the LGB Alliance in a speech stated "We're applying for charitable status and building an organization to challenge the dominance of those who promote the damaging theory of gender identity."[45][46][47]

A petition set up against the application received 30,000 signatures.[48][49][50] The application was granted in April 2021.[18] After the Alliance was granted the status of charity, the UK Pride Organisers Network released an open letter signed by more than 50 LGBT+ Pride groups across the UK condemning the decision.[51]

Challenge to charitable status

In June 2021, a number of groups, including transgender youth charity Mermaids and the Good Law Project, appealed against the decision to grant charitable status, on the basis that it did not "meet the threshold tests to be registered as a charity".[52] They say that the LGB Alliance does not meet two key criteria for charitable status under the Charities Act 2011: that a charity should "give rise to tangible, legally recognised benefits that outweigh any associated harms", and that they "benefit the public or a sufficient section of the public".[53] The Charity Commission reaffirmed its role "to decide whether an organisation's purposes fall within the legal definition of charity" and that objections to the LGB Alliance's application had been "carefully considered" in its original decision to grant charitable status.[54] Lui Asquith, director of legal and policy at Mermaids, said "LGB Alliance purports to be an organisation that supports lesbian, gay and bisexual people, but it doesn't. Many trans people are LGB and LGB Alliance actively works to oppose the advancement of rights of trans individuals."[55]

On 30 March 2022, the London Community Foundation awarded the LGB Alliance a grant as part of the Arts Council England Let's Create Jubilee Fund, for a film Queens — 70 Years of Queer History.[56] They withdrew the grant in April 2022, after being made aware of the legal challenge against the Alliance's charitable status.[20][57]

After a round of written arguments, a hearing in the First-tier Tribunal was scheduled for September 2022.[19][58] Mermaids are being supported in this appeal by the Good Law Project, the LGBT+ Consortium, Gendered Intelligence, Trans Actual, and the LGBT Foundation.[55]

On 12 September, the second day of the tribunal, the CEO of the LGBT+ Consortium, Paul Roberts, gave testimony. Roberts alleged the LGB Alliance had deceived the Charity Commission, being "careful to craft its messaging so it appears innocuous and pro-LGB" while being anti-trans. Akua Reindorf, representing the LGB Alliance, questioned him and argued that the organisation works to protect LGB people. Reindorf also pointed out reports of homosexuals in Iran being forced to transition under the threat of capital punishment, to argue that "transing the gay away" is a "major area of concern".[59]

Dr. Belinda Bell, chair of the trustees of Mermaids, raised concerns over the LGB Alliance's targeting of children, stating: "As far as I can tell, LGB Alliance appears to accept that adult trans people exist and that they should be allowed to access gender-affirming healthcare. However, based on its public communications, LGB Alliance appears to take the view that trans children do not exist, or that they cannot know they are trans before adulthood". She also raised issue with their targeting of Stonewall and Mermaids, stating "LGB Alliance has repeatedly stated in public forums that Mermaids seeks to inappropriately push LGB children into identifying as trans."[60][61]

On 15 September, Kate Harris, a co-founder of LGB Alliance, was asked by Michael Gibbon, representing Mermaids, if the group was "seeking to influence the government against Mermaids and trans rights". She responded "yes", and admitted to "attacking them and their views" despite originally arguing Mermaids had no legal standing to challenge their charity status since it was unaffected by their campaigning. Harris stated the Alliance aimed to "show children that being LGB is a happy thing, not to help LGB children because I don't believe LGB children exist" despite the organization stating it has been setting up a helpline for LGB youth between 13 and 25.[62]

Gibbon asked Harris if some people might have a different definition of lesbian than the LGB Alliance, since the definition of lesbian had come up repeatedly over the last few days in the hearing. She asked if that meant if "a lesbian can be a man with a penis", and Gibbon responded: "Putting it in a more neutral way, that lesbians can include someone who is a woman as a result of gender reassignment". Harris started crying during testimony, causing a break in the session. She later stated: "A lesbian is attracted to another biological woman, full stop". At the end of the day it was decided not to convene the following day to conclude the tribunal but to delay until November, to allow sufficient time for closing statements.[63]

Regulatory issues

In August 2021, the Charity Commission announced that it would be engaging with the LGB Alliance trustees after the Alliance posted a Tweet stating that "adding the + to LGB gives the green light to paraphilias like bestiality – and more – to all be part of one big happy 'rainbow family'" which was subsequently removed by Twitter for violating the social media platform's rules.[64][65][needs update]

On 7 September 2022, the LGB Alliance was found by the Fundraising Regulator to have broken two of its codes, the first violation being by setting forth the "false and misleading" claim that it was the only charity representing lesbian, gay, and bisexual interests, and the second violation being by failing to address the first violation. According to the regulator: "The charity rejected this complaint on the basis that it was inaccurate and suggested the person who made the complaint was ignorant of how it differed from other charities."[66][67]

Views

Gender identity

Co-founder Bev Jackson said that lesbians are in danger of extinction due to disproportionate focus on transgender issues in schools: "At school, in university, it is so uncommon, it is the bottom of the heap. Becoming trans is now considered the brave option." She also voiced concern that "If you do not accept that everyone has a gender identity then you are automatically labelled transphobic which means you can no longer discuss women's lives and what's happening to lesbians. We are increasingly discovering that lesbians are no longer welcome in the LGBTQ+ world, which is astonishing."[2]

Jackson has said, "Lesbians don't have penises. A lesbian is a biological woman who is attracted to another biological woman. That's obvious. Or at least it was obvious until a few years ago."[2]

Same sex marriage

The group has said that the LGBT rights movement in the UK has "never demanded that society change its laws, its activities and its language to accommodate us" and that the focus was instead on building bridges.[68] In June 2020, the Alliance said in a tweet that it is not homophobic to oppose same-sex marriage, citing a statistic that most lesbian, gay and bisexual people are not married. PinkNews says that the tweet was deleted following criticism from actor David Paisley, Scottish MP Mhairi Black, and journalist Owen Jones.[69][70] The Alliance later tweeted that "that tweet was very badly formulated! The introduction of same-sex marriage was a great breakthrough for gay people."[69][71]

Conversion therapy

The LGB Alliance is critical of the campaign by other LGBT+ groups to make conversion therapy illegal, stating that the campaign "is being used as political cover to promote an affirmation-only approach to gender identity".[72] The LGB Alliance also believes that affirmation-based therapy for transgender youth "is itself a form of conversion therapy" and has lobbied MPs to "stop transing the gay away".[73]

Scottish Gender Recognition Act

The Alliance opposes proposed legislation in the Scottish Parliament to change the process of legal recognition of gender to be "based only on self-identification rather than biological sex", and reduce the age of access from 18 to 16.[74]

The group took out adverts in Scotland to campaign against the Scottish government's plan to reform the Gender Recognition Act stating that the GRA reform would create a "gender free-for-all" and is "a law that could be exploited by predatory men who wish to hurt women and girls". A number of complaints were made to the UK's advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), over the adverts. The ASA deemed the issue not serious enough for a full investigation, but issued the group with an "Advice Notice", advising that the messages could be "potentially misleading".[4]

Sex education

The Alliance supports compulsory relationships and sex education (in Scotland termed "Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood Education"), but says that the concept of gender identity is being taught as fact despite what Alliance representatives say is its lack of a scientific basis. They also allege that the materials being provided to schools are produced by campaign groups rather than people with any relevant qualifications in education or science and that the materials violate principles of safeguarding by instructing teachers to conceal children's expressed desires to transition from their parents.[75] The Alliance refers to this manner of teaching gender identity as potentially harmful propaganda.[75][non-primary source needed]

Treatment of gender dysphoric children

Bev Jackson accused the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which offers Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS) to children, of "transing out the gay".[2] She also referred to studies which showed that children who identified as transgender were more likely to be autistic, saying she had spoken with a teacher at an SEN (special educational needs) school who told her there were "24 trans kids, one non binary, but no gays and lesbians."[2]

In November 2020, Bev Jackson was quoted in a BBC story about children experiencing delays in access to gender reassignment treatment, saying "We don't think children should be allowed to self-diagnose any medical condition."[3] The next month, Jackson welcomed the High Court verdict in the Bell vs. Tavistock trial, which ruled that children should not be given puberty blockers without court approval.[2] In September 2021, the verdict was overturned by the Court of Appeal.[76]

LGBT+ clubs in schools

Malcolm Clark, co-founder of the Alliance, has argued against LGBT+ clubs in schools, due to the risk of "predatory gay teachers". LGBT+ clubs had previously been banned under the Section 28 legislation against "promotion of homosexuality". He stated, "There should never, of course, be bullying. But the vast majority of children have not settled on a sexual orientation. Suggesting they do have a sexual orientation is fraught with dangers – for kids" and "Having clubs where kids explore on school grounds …their sexual orientation seems to be unnecessary and potentially dangerous". Co-founders Kate Harris and Bev Jackson declined to comment on these remarks when asked by PinkNews for their thoughts.[77][78]

Media coverage and criticism

According to journalist Gaby Hinsliff, "The Alliance is seen by many in the LGBT sector as a fringe organisation at best, and at worst a hate group."[79] It has been described as a hate group by Pride in London, Pride in Surrey, the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights, the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain,[12] barrister Jolyon Maugham, Green Party of England and Wales co-leader Carla Denyer,[80] and journalist Owen Jones.[81][82][83][84] Broadcaster India Willoughby has described the group as "baddies masquerading as the good guys."[85] The group has also been described as "anti-trans" by the Trades Union Congress and Hope not Hate.[10][11]

In November 2020, the gay men's magazine Boyz retweeted Twitter posts from the LGB Alliance and responded to criticism by suggesting that people not jump to conclusions about the organisation and instead "hear them out". Companies that advertised in Boyz or stocked the magazine were targeted with threats of boycotts, and at least one venue, the cabaret club Royal Vauxhall Tavern, stopped distributing it. The magazine eventually apologised "for the publicity we have given the LGB Alliance." The Spectator writer Brendan O'Neill wrote a defence of the Alliance after the Boyz controversy, arguing the group was being targeted by left wing activists who had deprived it of opportunities to raise money by getting it removed from crowdfunding websites and that activists had lobbied to have gay rights activist and LGB Alliance co-founder Allison Bailey investigated by her employers for transphobia.[86]

In December 2020, John Nicolson, Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire, described the group as "sinister"[2] and said that it was absurd for the BBC to rely on "transphobic groups like the so-called LGB Alliance" to give balance on reports about trans issues, saying "you would never do a report on racism, for example, and call in a racist organisation to say that they don't think black people have a right to equality".[7] In October 2021, Labour Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Taiwo Owatemi argued that the Alliance "should be rejected by all those who believe in equality," saying that the Alliance "opposes LGBT+ inclusive education," disregards Gillick competency, and has opposed conversion therapy bans.[87]

The group has been condemned by a number of MPs, including SNP MP Mhairi Black, Liberal Democrat MP Jamie Stone, and Labour MP Charlotte Nichols.[88][89][90] A statement from the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights group calling the LGB Alliance transphobic and trans-exclusionist was signed by two of the three candidates in the 2020 party leadership elections, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy, as well as candidates for deputy leader Dawn Butler and Angela Rayner, the latter being elected deputy leader.[6][91] In July 2020, the group met with Conservative Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch.[92] A number of other Conservative politicians, including MPs Ben Bradley and Jackie Doyle-Price have voiced support for the group.[93][94]

The Alliance has been described as trans-exclusionary in articles published in the journals Metaphilosophy and the Journal of Gender Studies.[8][9] A 2021 article in the International Journal of Sociology listed the Alliance among "UK lobby groups [that] are successfully pushing a radical agenda to deny the basic rights of trans people."[95] Mike Homfray of the University of Liverpool has argued that "there is ample evidence that the LGB Alliance, far from respecting the existence of trans people, has as a central aim their isolation and separation from LGB people."[96]

Dame Melanie Dawes, chief executive of Ofcom, responding to a comment from MP John Nicolson asking why "transphobic groups like the so-called LGB Alliance" should appear on BBC programming, said quoting anti-trans pressure groups in order to bring balance "can be extremely inappropriate".[97]

Gary Powell, who participated in the Alliance's pre-launch meetings and was involved in the promotion of its launch, has been criticised for speaking at events organised by the Heritage Foundation and writing for the Witherspoon Institute, both American conservative think tanks which have campaigned against LGBT rights.[98][99] Bev Jackson, one of the founders of the Alliance, has been criticised for saying that "working with the Heritage Foundation is sometimes the only possible course of action" since "the leftwing silence on gender in the US is even worse than in the UK."[100] Malcolm Clark, another Alliance co-founder, has been criticised for saying that he "[doesn't] see the point of LGBT clubs in schools," stating that it would offer "unnecessary encouragement" to predatory teachers.[101] The Alliance received criticism after giving controversial conservative social media personality Andy Ngo a press pass to their October 2021 conference and saying that "whatever his other work in the past, his work on the Wi Spa controversy was extraordinary and important."[102]

The former UK Conservative MP Ben Howlett has described how LGB Alliance and Sex Matters lobbied Conservative Party members of parliament in private: "I think one of the core reasons why issues surrounding trans people are going high up the agenda is that there's a lot of Machiavellian stuff going on behind the scenes".[103]

International groups

A number of LGB Alliance groups have been formed internationally with similar objectives and branding. The UK organisation promotes 16 of them on its website; Australia, Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Spain, USA, Wales, India, Germany, Finland and New Zealand.[104]

Ireland

In October 2020, a group called LGB Alliance Ireland was launched on Twitter. A number of Irish LGBT+ activists said that group was based in the UK and was mainly composed of British supporters.[105][106] This was disputed by the group, which stated that "all our committee members are living in Ireland, with representation in each of the four provinces".[107] In November 2020, the LGB Alliance Ireland faced criticism after calling for schools to ignore LGBT youth organisation BeLonG To's Stand Up Awareness Week.[108] In August 2022, the Global Project against Hate and Extremism released a report in which it classified LGB Alliance Ireland as a far-right anti-transgender hate group.[109][110][16]

Iceland

In September 2020, a linked group was launched in Iceland, named LBG teymið, with Iva Marín Adrichem as a co-founder. Icelandic national queer organisation Samtökin '78 director Þorbjörg Þorvaldsdóttir condemned the group.[111] The Icelandic group later rebranded as Samtökin 22.[112]

Australia

In August 2022, the LGB Alliance Australia filed an application with Equal Opportunity Tasmania, part of the Tasmanian Department of Justice, for permission to hold drag shows from which trans women would be banned from attending. Tasmania's anti-discrimination commissioner rejected the request.[113] In October 2022, the Global Project against Hate and Extremism released a report in which it classified LGB Alliance Australia as a far-right anti-transgender hate group.[114][17]

See also

References

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