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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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It’s time to talk
We have long argued that Self-ID would allow predatory men to claim a trans status in order to access women’s and girls’ spaces. And that it’s insulting to suggest a man can self-identify as a lesbian, or a woman can self-identify as a gay man. We ran an ad, back in...
Our letters to Stonewall
Letter to The Times, October 2018Letter to Jan Gooding, October 2018[pdf-embedder...
Historic win for LGB Alliance
General Regulatory Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal rules that Mermaids had no legal right to challenge LGB Alliance’s charitable status Mermaids and the Good Law Project, forced the UK’s only charity that stands exclusively for the rights of LGB people to defend...
LGB Alliance and ACE: The FOIs
After our Jubilee Fund grant was pulled, we wanted to know more about how that decision was made, so we wrote a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to Arts Council England on 26th April 2022:[pdf-embedder...
Cancelled? The story of our film
On Tuesday it was announced that Denise Fahmy had won her harassment claim against Arts Council England after she resigned as a grants officer having challenged a decision to withdraw funding from us for our film in celebration of the Queen's Jubilee. When funding for...
Open Letter to UN Independent Expert on SOGI
Last week Kate Harris, Co-founder and Trustee of LGB Alliance, met with Victor Madrigal-Borloz, UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI), alongside Paula Boulton from Lesbian Labour and Dennis Kavanaugh from The Gay Men’s Network. We have...
Assault on the rights of LGB people in Uganda
We have written to the Minister of State for Development and Africa to express horror at Uganda's crackdown on homosexuality. Guided by activists on the ground, we call on the UK to review investment in Uganda, impose sanctions on those responsible, and fast track...
LGB Alliance Responds to IPSO Consultation
IPSO are currently carrying out their Public Consultation on Guidance on Reporting of Sex and Gender Identity and there is still time for you to take part. To find out more information and submit a response visit...
LGB Alliance signs Open Letter to NHS Chiefs
We have signed CAN-SG’s open letter to the NHS on the importance of the word “woman” in women’s health. This letter to the NHS chief executives and chief nursing officers of the four UK nations, as well as relevant ministers, calls for the reinstatement of language...
Major victory for LGB people secured by LGB Alliance
European Court of Human Rights Rules That Russia And 16 Other European Countries Must Pass Civil Partnership Laws For Same-Sex Couples London, 17 January 2023: Today, in the case of Fedotova & Others v. Russia, brought by three same-sex couples who were unable to...
Our letter to the Prime Minister
Today we wrote to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak requesting that he urge the Secretary of State for Scotland to intervene on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. This letter is not only signed by us, but by many other groups & individuals who campaign for...
Our letter to Alister Jack MP
Today we wrote to Alister Jack MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, to ask him to intervene on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. This letter is not only signed by us, but by many other groups & individuals who campaign for the rights of lesbians, gay...