LGB Alliance

The LGB Alliance is a British nonprofit advocacy group founded in 2019, in opposition to the policies of LGBT rights charity Stonewall on transgender issues. Its founders are Bev Jackson, Kate Harris, Allison Bailey, Malcolm Clark and Ann Sinnott. The organisation has said that lesbians are facing "extinction" because of the "disproportionate" focus on transgender identities in schools.

LGB Alliance
FormationSeptember 2019 (2019-09)
FoundersBev Jackson
Kate Harris
Ann Sinnott
Allison Bailey
Malcolm Clark
Founded atUnited Kingdom
TypeNonprofit advocacy organisation
Registration no.limited company: 12338881 registered charity: 1194148 (England and Wales)
Legal statusActive
Location
  • 124 City Road, London EC1
Websitelgballiance.org.uk

The LGB Alliance describes its objective as "asserting the right of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men to define themselves as same-sex attracted", and states that such a right is threatened by "attempts to introduce confusion between biological sex and the notion of gender". The group has opposed a ban on conversion therapy for trans people in the UK, opposed the use of puberty blockers for children, and opposed gender recognition reform.

The LGB Alliance has been described by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights as transphobic, in a statement signed by a number of Labour MPs, and by articles in four scholarly journals as "trans-exclusionary" or "anti-trans". Hope not Hate and the Trades Union Congress have described the group as anti-trans. It has also been described by several members of parliament, journalists, and LGBT organisations and activists as a hate group. The group has received support from a number of UK politicians, including Boris Johnson.

The LGB Alliance was granted charitable status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales in April 2021, which was controversial with LGBT groups in the UK, fifty of whom signed an open letter condemning it. A hearing for an appeal against its charitable status started in the First-tier Tribunal in September 2022. The appeal was dismissed in July 2023. It found that Mermaids, which had made the appeal, did not have legal standing to challenge the decision made by the Charity Commission. The judges also said they had been unable to reach agreement on whether LGB Alliance qualified for charitable status and therefore had not ruled on that matter.

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