UK charity LBG Alliance has earned the right to exist after winning a case brought against them by trans-activist group Mermaids. LGB Alliance has won its tribunal case for charity status after Mermaids brought the suit, claiming that the group centered on advocacy for lesbian, gay and bisexual people was hateful for not advocating for trans people, which is the primary focus of Mermaids.
LGB Alliance was founded by Allison Bailey, an English barrister who lost her job over her belief that there are only two sexes. She took her employer to court and won, and now she has won again. Legendary author JK Rowling congratulated LGB Alliance on their win.
LGB Alliance was forced to defend its charitable status during a six-day tribunal hearing in late 2022. The organization was challenged by Mermaids describes itself as “helping gender-diverse kids, young people and their families.” It was headed by Susie Green, who took her child to Thailand at the age of 16 to gift him with castration and a vaginoplasty.
In a TED Talk, Green explained how her husband didn't want a gay son, but was fine having a son who was trans, and that her son began to transition as a child. By the time he underwent the surgery in Thailand, he did not have enough genital flesh to create a neo-vagina as a result of having taken puberty blockers, which kept his penis in a child-like state. When she discussed the child’s penile inversion with friends, Green jokingly said that "there wasn’t much there to work with."
“Mermaids had no standing to challenge our registration and today," LGB Alliance said after the win, "the tribunal has confirmed that we were correct. Whilst this is a battle we did not seek, neither would we flee from it. But the cost to us and to our supporters has been huge.”
Kate Barker, Chief Executive Officer of LGB Alliance, said: “We are absolutely delighted with this judgment and with the news that we will retain our charitable status.”
She continued: “In a free society we must be free to disagree and we hold fiercely to that view. We are relieved that this long, and sometimes bruising, process has reached an end and we thank all of our wonderful supporters and our brilliant legal team. As to our detractors…They tried to run us ragged. They failed. We’re happy that now the work goes on.”
The Post Millennial reported in September 2022 that Mermaids alleged LGB Alliance’s real purpose, aside from being a charity, was “the denigration of trans people and the destruction of organizations that support them, in particular through political lobbying.”
The primary contention between the two groups was over the definition of the term “homosexual.” The LGB Alliance maintained that homosexual people are same-sex attracted. However, Mermaids attempted to rewire the definition to mean “same-gender attracted,” meaning that males who identify as women and are attracted to women would be defined as lesbians.
As a result of LGB Alliance’s refusal to abide by this definition, Mermaids attempted to get a UK court to strip the charity status from a group that disagrees with them.
LGB Alliance, founded in 2019 and awarded charity status in 2021, has been vocal about the harm they believe gender ideology to be doing to the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community–namely, erasing their status by remaking them as straight members of the opposite sex.
Bev Jackson, co-founder of LGB Alliance, said: “Gender identity theory says that males who ‘identify’ as women can call themselves lesbians. This is a kind of theft–stealing our word for ourselves–and we will not, do not accept it.” She explained that her group applied for charitable status in 2020 “to challenge the dominance of those who promote the damaging theory of gender identity.”
In December 2022, it was reported that Mermaids was under investigation by the United Kingdom’s Charity Commission after an initial inquiry by the commission raised “newly identified issues about the charity’s governance and management.”
The Telegraph dug into Mermaids and found that one of its staff members had been planning to send a 14-year-old girl a chest compression device against her parents’ wishes. There was also mention that chat room moderators were giving out incorrect medical advice and encouraging teenagers to medically transition. As an ironic consequence, a case against Mermaids was opened by The Charity Commission.
It was further discovered that a member of the Mermaids board of trustees, Dr. Jacob Breslow, was affiliated with a pro-pedophile rights group and had spoken at their conference. CEO Susie Green left the charity after six years amid all of the controversy.
