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Statement on WESC Puberty Blocker Hearing
The Women and Equalities Select Committee (WESC) today held a hearing entitled “Evidence base on the safety and effectiveness of puberty blockers”. Given that the Cass Review...
Joanna Cherry KC joins our Board as Trustee
Former SNP Shadow Home Secretary and Chair of Joint Committee on Human Rights brings unique legal and public affairs expertise to UK’s only charity exclusively for LGB people...
What is a woman? LGB Alliance intervenes in a landmark case
On 26-27 November the UK Supreme Court will consider a question over which politicians continually stumble but that all reasonable people can answer without difficulty – what is...
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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...
Schools Guidance – have your say!
Take a minute today to respond to the Gender questioning children: Everything you need to know about new draft guidance for schools consultation. Deadline 12 March! We believe the guidance wrongly expects teachers to make decisions on "social transitioning". The most...
WPATH Files leak confirms our worst fears
The WPATH files confirm our worst fears about the organisation seen as the global authority on what is misleadingly termed “gender affirming health care”. We hear clinicians openly admitting some teens mistake their homosexuality for a gender issue. We read of...
Check out our brand new Info Sheets page!
Our info sheets have got a brand new home! Click the button below to start reading and find out more about a variety of topics that impact LGB people. From Adoption to Blood Donation to Coming Out and Marriage, we offer information and advice to ensure that as...
UN Special Rapporteur visits UK
We were delighted meet with UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem in London, along with so many other groups, including Lesbian Labour, Sex Matters, Safe Schools Alliance and The Lesbian Project, dedicated to the rights and safety of...
Our response to the WHO consultation on “a guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people”
The WHO consultation on “a guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people" exemplifies the conflation of healthcare with politics. It also breaches WHO’s own rules and risks causing harm to young people, especially those who are LGB. Here is our...