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LGB Alliance

Abbreviation	LBG
Formation	2019 (2019)
Founder	Bev Jackson
Founded at	United Kingdom
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Lesbian, gay, and bisexual advocacy
Website	lgballiance.org.uk

The LGB Alliance is an advocacy group in the United Kingdom which was founded in 2019. The group describes their aims as to advance LGB (lesbian, gay, and bisexual) rights. They have been described by LGBT organizations as trans-exclusionary and transphobic.

History

The group was founded in 2019 by Bev Jackson following concerns that Stonewall, the UK's leading gay rights charity, had become too focussed on gender identity.

Campaigns

Scotland Gender Recognition Act

The Alliance opposes proposed legislation in the Scottish Parliament to change the process of gender recognition such that legally recognised gender be based only on self-identification rather than biological sex or a medical diagnosis and process, and reduce the age of access from 18 to 16.

The group took out adverts in Scotland to campaign against the Scottish government’s plan to reform the Gender Recognition Act stating that the GRA reform would create a “gender free-for-all” and is “a law that could be exploited by predatory men who wish to hurt women and girls”. Complaints to UK’s advertising watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) were dismissed, although it issued the group with an "Advice Notice", advising that the messages could be “potentially misleading”.

Opposing LGBT+ education in schools

The Alliance supports compulsory relationships and sex education (in Scotland termed "Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood Education"), but expresses concern that the concept of "gender identity" is being taught as if it were fact despite having no scientific basis, that the materials being provided to schools are produced by campaign groups rather than people with any relevant qualifications in education or science and that the materials violate principles of safeguarding by instructing teachers to conceal childrens' expressed desires to transition from their parents. For this reason, the Alliance refers to this manner of teaching gender identity as "potentially harmful propaganda".

The group have also said that lesbians face “extinction” because of “disproportionate focus on transgenderism in schools".

Opposing pharmaceutical treatment or surgery for children

The group opposes pharmaceutical treatment of children with gender dysphoria who are patients of The Gender Clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust which offers Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS) to children. The group's opposition is about child safety concerns and accuses the clinic of “transing out the gay”.

Media coverage and criticism

In November 2020, Jackson was quoted in a BBC story about delays in access to gender reassignment treatment. In December 2020 Melanie Dawes, chief executive of Ofcom, speaking to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said that it was absurd for the BBC to rely on "transphobic groups like the so-called LGB Alliance" to give balance on reports about trans issues, saying “you would never do a report on racism, for example, and call in a racist organisation to say that they don’t think black people have a right to equality".

References

1. "About". LGB Alliance. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
2. "'LGB Alliance' group faces criticism for being transphobic". The Independent. 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2021-01-27. A new lesbian, gay and bisexual alliance group has been heavily criticised for excluding the transgender community, prompting people to label it transphobic.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
3. "Bisexual woman claims Glasgow queer bar kicked her out for wearing LGB Alliance T-shirt". PinkNews - Gay news, reviews and comment from the world's most read lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans news service. 2020-01-19. Retrieved 2021-01-27. The LGB Alliance is an anti-trans groups whose mission statement explicitly seeks to remove the "T" from "LGBT".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
4. Weaver, Matthew (2020-02-13). "Labour leadership contenders split over trans group pledge card". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-01-27. Lisa Nandy has joined Rebecca Long-Bailey in signing the 12-point pledge card by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) that also describes some organisations including Woman's Place UK as "trans-exclusionist hate groups".{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
5. ^ "Lesbians facing 'extinction' as transgenderism becomes pervasive, campaigners warn". 2021-01-07. Archived from the original on 2021-01-07. Retrieved 2021-01-27. The LGB Alliance, which has been branded a "trans hate group" by Pink News and other vocal critics, was set up in October 2019 amid concerns that Stonewall, the UK's leading gay rights charity, had become too fixated on gender identity.
6. "'Entirely inappropriate' to quote LGB Alliance on trans issues, says Ofcom chief". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29. several high-profile LGBT+ campaigners have labelled the LGB Alliance a hate group{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
7. Parsons, Vic (August 21, 2020). "LGB Alliance founder defends working with anti-abortion, anti-LGBT+ Heritage Foundation in resurfaced tweets". Pink News. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
8. "LGB Alliance Statement on reports that the UK Government plans to drop its previous proposals to reform the GRA". LGB Alliance. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
9. ^ "LGB Alliance warned by advertising watchdog over 'potentially misleading' claims about gender recognition laws". PinkNews - Gay news, reviews and comment from the world's most read lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans news service. 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
10. "Advertising regulator rejects complaint about LGB Alliance advert". LGB Alliance. 2020-12-22. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
11. ^ "Schools Campaign". LGB Alliance. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
12. ^ Tominey, Camilla (2020-12-25). "Lesbians facing 'extinction' as transgenderism becomes pervasive, campaigners warn". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
13. "Trans teen in legal action over gender clinic wait". BBC News. 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
14. "Trans teen in legal action over gender clinic wait". BBC News. 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
15. "'Entirely inappropriate' to quote LGB Alliance on trans issues, says Ofcom chief". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.

External links

• Official website

• Transgender rights
• Advocacy groups in the United Kingdom
• 2019 establishments in the United Kingdom
• LGBT in the United Kingdom