Tag: Stonewall

CLOSES TAVISTOCK, CHILDREN'S TRANSITION CLINIC: 'AFFIRMATIVE' APPROACH (DRUGS AND SURGERY) IS DANGEROUS FOR YOUNG PATIENTS The news is sensational: the British National Health Service (NHS) has ordered the closure of the Tavistock & Portman gender clinic for failing to ensure the safety of young patients, most of whom are girls (full article here). The clinic has been accused by several parties of hastily initiating many minors, most of them suffering from spectrum disorders [...].

Stonewall will face a court case for encouraging the law firm where Allison Bailey, a lesbian lawyer, works to issue a disciplinary measure against her just because she had criticised transgender activists. The lawyer filed a discrimination complaint inspired by the case of Maya Forstater, the researcher at the Center for Global Development in London who lost her job for expressing her opposition to gender self-certification (see here). On 10 June, an appeals court ruled that Maya Forstater had [...].

Stonewall has dropped legislation advising workplace equality organisations to remove the word 'mother' from their policies. The lobby announced that it would no longer reward with higher ranking scores employers who would adopt gender-neutral alternatives by starting to use "mother". Nancy Kelley, Stonewall's chief executive, denied in an interview that such a policy existed. "We are not interested in removing or deleting the [...]

The British Department of Health has broken its agreement with Stonewall: it will no longer use its consultancy (lavishly paid: more than £300,000 of taxpayers' money paid to the big organisation so far) to apply its diversity scheme in favour of LGBT staff. The Department of Health is the latest high-profile organisation to distance itself from the lobby group, which has been heavily criticised for its influence and intrusiveness into public policy. A Department spokeswoman said: 'The year [...]

For those who still have doubts about the fact that gender identity and gender-neutral policies involve the elimination of women, after the pop example of the X Factor (see here), here is another rather sensational one. The Times writes that a thousand large British companies, including Unilever and Astrazeneca, are required to declare the percentage of women on their boards. The main reason is to assess and correct the gender pay gap, i.e. the difference in pay between women and [...]

by Kate Harris, former Stonewall Ambassador and co-founder of LGB Alliance I used to work at American Express during the heyday of Stonewall's brilliant* campaign for equality for LGB people at work. As a "Stonewall ambassador" I was delighted and proud to support the Diversity Champions programme created in 2005. The equality index was only a small part of Stonewall's efforts to make employers aware that LGB people exist, and that their rights needed to be protected. There are [...]

by Claire Heuchan I still remember my first Pride, almost a lifetime and a half ago. I was fifteen and spending a day in Glasgow with my mother when we saw the parade start from Queen Street. In the years since then, I have often wondered whether the choice of that street as a starting point was intentional or not. But at the time I wasn't familiar enough with gay culture, or the ironic claim of insults to put it [...]

Tumultuous change of wind in the UK, cradle of the Lgbtq+ rainbow. After the harsh attack on Stonewall by one of its founders, Matthew Parris, another strongly critical voice, that of the gay journalist and essayist Douglas Murray. He denounces the persecutory campaign of the historical association against gays and lesbians, to protect their rights, which it was founded in 1989. Today, says Murray, Stonewall is a business committee at the service of the trans lobby to intercept rivers of money and justify [...].

The Arcus Foundation is a major charity supporting the LGBT cause, social justice issues and environmental conservation. Arcus is heavily involved in actively supporting transgender ideology. In these articles by Jennifer Bilek you can find out more: see here and here. If you want to check who Arcus' beneficiaries are, you can find the list here. Between 2016 and April 2021, Arcus invested nearly $74 million in promoting social justice. Most [...]

In a letter to Sex Matters, Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the UK's equal opportunities watchdog, said it had ended its relationship with Stonewall, the largest LGBT organisation. "As a publicly funded organisation, we have to make sure we make the best choices about our budget and we have recently reviewed all our agreements," said Falkner. For many years Stonewall has strongly influenced [...]

"There is a stubbornness in me that does not tolerate being intimidated by the will of others. My courage rises at every attempt to frighten me'. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 An earthquake is shaking Anglo-Saxon universities. Gender-critical female professors have provoked it, risking their careers by denouncing the loss of academic freedom and the intimidating climate in which sex, gender and gender identity are discussed. "The gender identity movement is erasing people's freedom of speech and the academic freedom of anyone who does not [...]

In Great Britain, despite the increase of domestic violence during the lockdown -one feminicide every 3 days, the same average as in Italy- two shelters for battered women were dismantled because they were not 'gender neutral' enough. Brighton City Council told Rise that despite 25 years of shelter and despite being trans-inclusive, it remains 'much more accessible to women'. In order to include "both heterosexual and gay male survivors" council services will have to become "gender-neutral". In the [...]