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Intervention in For Women Scotland Supreme Court Appeal
This week we submitted an intervention alongside Scottish Lesbians and The Lesbian Project in the forthcoming For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers Appeal Case, which will...
Our CEO chats to Jack Jewell
Watch this clip of our CEO, Kate Barker, on the Jack Jewell Podcast.Kate chats with Jack openly about the challenges we've faced as an organisation and how positive we feel about...
The Charity Commission instructs Mermaids to apply the recommendations of the Cass Review
Mermaids used to take a cautious approach to meeting the needs of vulnerable children. In 2009, their website included the statement ,”Gender Identity Disorders in infancy,...
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Government commits to banning private clinic prescriptions
We are delighted the Health Secretary heeded our call to ban private clinics from prescribing puberty blockers to children.We are relieved that organisations such as GenderGP may no longer profit from vulnerable youth, many of whom are same-sex attracted.
Tickets now on sale for the LGB event of the year
Tickets are on sale now for the biggest, and most fabulous, LGB event of the year! On October 11th, we’ll be reclaiming our history, debating today’s challenges and staking our claim on the future. It’s an unmissable day.
Government should act on private clinic prescriptions
We have written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Victoria Atkins MP, on the increasing urgency for the government to act to limit the ability of private clinics to prescribe puberty blockers to young people. We are concerned that the number of...
Our response to Sir John Curtice
Read our joint letter with Gay Men's Network in today's Herald responding to John Curtice's dreadful, offensive comparison between the case of Isla Bryson and homophobic stigmatisation of gay men during the AIDS...
Join a Friends’ Group
Join a Friends’ Group to meet likeminded lesbians, gay men and bisexuals for pub meets, picnics, gallery visits, film showings and more! Sign up to your local group to make new friends for life.
LGB Alliance response to the final report from the Cass Review
10 April 2024 LGB Alliance welcomes the final report of the Cass Review, published today, and hopes that it will usher in the end of a global medical scandal that continues to undermine the health and welfare of so many young people. However, we warn that its many...
Our response to Ending conversion practices in Scotland consultation
On the 9th January the Scottish government opened a consultation detailing their proposals for legislation to end conversion practices in Scotland. The deadline for this consultation is midnight tonight, 2nd April 2024. Here is our response:LGB Alliance submission to...
Our challenge to homophobia at Grindr
Today we have written to the CEO of Grindr to raise the concerns of our supporters around their current stance on banning gay men who do not wish to have sex with biological women. This platform, originally an app for men wishing to meet men, is now a place where a...
Our statement on NHS approach to cross-sex hormones
We are deeply disturbed by the NHS announcement that cross-sex hormones may be prescribed to children as young as fifteen. It recently announced it was halting the prescription of puberty blockers because of the poor evidence base, concluding that these drugs are...
LGB Alliance urge Secretary of Health to “close the loophole”
Today we have written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Victoria Atkins MP, to urge her to "close the loophole" that will allow private clinics to continue to prescribe puberty blockers. Drugs now deemed unsafe by NHS England. We have called on the...
NHS England make “landmark decision” on puberty blockers
We welcome the landmark decision that NHS England will no longer prescribe puberty blockers. We've campaigned for years against giving puberty blockers to gender-questioning youth, most of whom would otherwise grow up to be lesbian, gay or bisexual adults. This is a...
Upcoming RSE debate – our position
An e-petition demanding that LGBT content be removed from the RSE curriculum has triggered a debate in Parliament, which will take place on 18th March. We have written to MPs to explain why facts must trump ideology in schools. Read our letter here:[pdf-embedder...