MERMAIDS CHALLENGE LGB ALLIANCE

Defending our Charity Status

LGB ALLIANCE

Our charitable status is being challenged by Mermaids. Mermaids says that LGB Alliance, the only UK charity working exclusively for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals, should not have been given charitable status.

We believe this is a fundamental attack on the rights of people with same-sex sexual orientation to organise in our own interests.

This is an attempt to destroy the only UK charity exclusively supporting same-sex attracted people. We didn’t seek this fight but we won’t hide from it. We ask everyone who agrees LGB people have the right to organise in our own interests to support us…

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Skeleton Arguments

Mermaids vs LGB Alliance and the Charity of Commission of England and Wales

OPEN JUSTICE WITH TRIBUNAL TWEETS – DAY 5 of Mermaids v Charity Commission & LGB Alliance – Testimony KH – Kate Harris

…. MG: back to 236. Obvs u expressed ur view of how words should be understand. U would accept in practice a lot of ppl use sex and gender interchangeably
KH: since 2015

MG: is that right since 2015?
KH: issue and why those words form central part of our thinking and activity bc those who wish to remove sex and replace with gender. We see in west Australia, Victoria, Canada.
Those who campaign for GI replace sex with gender. Our pos is very dangerous, confusing and goes against all science and rwason

MG: didn’t need to state it?
KH: we did then. Need to make even clearer

MG: other ppl have different understanding of SE and lesbian? U saw PR and his understanding
KH: u mean a lesbian can be a man with a penis?

MG: putting it in a neutral way. Lesbian can include someone who is a woman as a result of GR? That’s how PR understand.
KH (long pause)
EJ: is everything all right miss Harris? We’ll rise for a moment and get KH a tissue and glass of water.

(Court adjourned)
We restart.

EJ: please sit. KM are u all right to continue?
KH: yes
MG: apologise if I said something upsetting. I’ll put Q in brief way for a yes/no. You’d accept others use words such as SE differently to you. Or lesbian for that matter.

KH: my good friend Allison Bailey said the word lesbian is taken. The word is taken by us. I’m going to speak for milliosn of lesbians around the world. We love other women. We will mot have that stolen from us.
KH: There have always been men who say feel they’re a lesbian tee hee hee. Always jocular. Lesbians often a laughing stick. We will not be. We will not be erased and no man with a penis will tell us he’s a lesbian because he feels is

MG: when u talk of tee hee, different that PR
KH: PR is far more offensive. He had no interest in lesbians. In partic 4000% increase in girls who think their trans. I felt indifference from him about phenomena running an lgbt Consortium.
KH: Contempt in this ideology that ignore women and lesbians. Formed LGBS bc we were not prepared to see lesbians erased. I’m proud to speak for lesbians attracting to human females. A lesbian is attracted to another bio woman full stop

MG: u set up lgba to fight that?
KH: was set up for children…concerned about children growing up fed tissue of lies about myth u can change se. U cannot change sex

MG: that’s political
KH: we have always pushed for dialogue. Leading intellilectual just published paper thinks GI is probs over. U either believe GI or you’re a hateful bigot

MG: many things my clients disagree with
KH: made ur meanings clear and to all who gathered. But to push forward clearly what u as group of ppl believe.
KH: u keep trying to make me agree without what lies behind it which is safeguarding of children.
Primary concern children given facts, edu and ability to make decisions as they get older. Have fundamental right of going through puberty. Ur trying to suggest were a political campaign in vacuum. Driven by concern for children

MG: political ca.paign for purpose. Trying to ID purposes. Not on face of it that primary concern is children…
KH: I helped author this doc. If intentions aren’t clear need to be revised

Mermaids is a threat to gay rights

JULIE BINDEL – 21 September 2022 – Unherd

I’ve been involved in the campaign against homophobia for forty years, and I’ve never seen anything like this. For the first time, a tribunal is taking place in which one charity is attempting to strip another of its legal status. Mermaids, which advocates for “gender variant and transgender youth”, has brought a case against LGB Alliance, the only UK-based organisation that focuses exclusively on same-sex attracted people.

Mermaids claims that LGB Alliance was not, in fact, established to support lesbians, gay men and bisexuals — but rather to discredit and disband Mermaids itself. The LGB Alliance, allegedly, “does not have charitable purposes”. If Mermaids wins this case, the consequences will be devastating for lesbians and gays. Any future charity set up to advocate specifically on our behalf will be wide open to legal challenge…

How media reported on LGB Alliance

THE GENDER COLLECTION – 1 October 2022 – 30 November 2022

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