According to the UK Fundraising Regulator, the government has found that "the charity’s fundraising was false and misleading, as it claimed it was the UK’s only registered charity set up to...
According to the UK Fundraising Regulator, the government has found that "the charity’s fundraising was false and misleading, as it claimed it was the UK’s only registered charity set up to protect and promote the rights of people with lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) orientation."
LGB Alliance is a hate group dedicated to fighting solidarity between lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and transgender people.
Sadly, this looks like it will amount to nothing substantial, and so this astroturfing hate group masquerading as a nonprofit will very likely continue on unabated. They unfortunately have deep...
Sadly, this looks like it will amount to nothing substantial, and so this astroturfing hate group masquerading as a nonprofit will very likely continue on unabated. They unfortunately have deep pockets thanks to their Heritage Foundation and Witherspoon Institute connections, and the UK is very TERF friendly these days, so I doubt their nonprofit status will be stripped from them anytime soon.
EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) are representing LGB Alliance in court And it should also be noted that Akua Reindorf was appointed to that position in the EHRC by Liz Truss, who...
As we covered already, the lawsuit against LGB Alliance is brought by a coalition of LGBTQIA+ charities led by Mermaids UK. They seek the removal of LGB Alliance’s charity status, a status which many in the LGBTQIA+ community believe is dangerous to give to a group widely described as a hate group.
What we didn’t cover in that article is the fact that two commissioners from EHRC are representing LGB Alliance in this court battle. Akua Reindorf and Karon Monaghan both work for the EHRC and have also cropped up in support of anti-trans activity elsewhere too.
Akua Reindorf in particular is noted from “the Reindorf report” which helped kick-start the campaign against Stonewall’s diversity champions and workplace equality index lists. In a report she wrote she claims that Stonewall are “erroneously applying the law” when they state “Under the Equality Act 2010, it is unlawful to discriminate against or treat someone unfairly because of their gender identity or trans status”.
She claims this is an error due to the fact that “trans status” and “gender identity” are not protected characteristics under the law. But as a normal person who isn’t looking desperately to find a loophole in order to give bigots wiggle room; it’s pretty clear this language is used to simplify the actual protected characteristic of “gender reassignment”.
“Gender reassignment” does indeed make discrimination against transgender people mostly unlawful, however no one knows what it means and its phrasing is often misleading. A person is not required to have undergone medical or surgical reassignment of any kind to be protected under “gender reassignment” and a judge has held that it also protects genderfluid and nonbinary people too — so rephrasing this to say “gender identity or trans status” isn’t really the be all and end all Reindorf and her transphobic supporters held it up to be.
This is, nonetheless, a big part of what is known as “Stonewall Law” amongst anti-trans campaigners. Their belief that Stonewall are lying about how the law works has led them to put in work to convince people of that fact. Such as the vexatious use of the Freedom of Information Act by anti-trans campaigners, who sent out hundreds of requests to local authorities and the subsequent attempt and failure to sue Stonewall by Allison Bailey — an LGB Alliance founder.
Reindorf wrote a review of incidents at some UK universities. Very similar arguments were later used in a case - AEA (an anti trans org) vs CEHR (the EHRC). AEA lost, comprehensively, and their...
Reindorf wrote a review of incidents at some UK universities. Very similar arguments were later used in a case - AEA (an anti trans org) vs CEHR (the EHRC).
AEA lost, comprehensively, and their arguments were described as "wrong in law".
That hasn't stopped Reindorf, and the fact she's now working for the EHRC shows just how fucked up the UK is in terms of lgbt+ rights.
According to the UK Fundraising Regulator, the government has found that "the charity’s fundraising was false and misleading, as it claimed it was the UK’s only registered charity set up to protect and promote the rights of people with lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) orientation."
LGB Alliance is a hate group dedicated to fighting solidarity between lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and transgender people.
Sadly, this looks like it will amount to nothing substantial, and so this astroturfing hate group masquerading as a nonprofit will very likely continue on unabated. They unfortunately have deep pockets thanks to their Heritage Foundation and Witherspoon Institute connections, and the UK is very TERF friendly these days, so I doubt their nonprofit status will be stripped from them anytime soon.
EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) are representing LGB Alliance in court
And it should also be noted that Akua Reindorf was appointed to that position in the EHRC by Liz Truss, who recently became PM of the UK after Johnson resigned.
Reindorf wrote a review of incidents at some UK universities. Very similar arguments were later used in a case - AEA (an anti trans org) vs CEHR (the EHRC).
AEA lost, comprehensively, and their arguments were described as "wrong in law".
That hasn't stopped Reindorf, and the fact she's now working for the EHRC shows just how fucked up the UK is in terms of lgbt+ rights.