Mick Hartley

As Stonewall lose their credibility here in the UK, along with their ready supply of gullible organisations keen to burnish their "progressive" credentials, they're starting to look elsewhere to keep the money flowing in. The huge untapped market of India is an obvious target. The trans organisation now present themselves as the new missionaries, spreading light to the heathens.

Florence H Waller at 4W:

Originally founded in London in 1989 to advocate for, and advance the rights of LGB people, Stonewall shifted its remit to focus primarily on transgender issues in 2015. Stonewall now has a concerted global outreach, including dedicated partnerships with Indian organizations: Keshav Suri Foundation, Pride Circle, and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).

Together with these organizations, Stonewall produced its first Indian Workplace Equality Index pamphlet in 2020. This document intends “to navigate the challenges of embedding LGBT+ inclusion” in the Indian workplace. In doing so, Stonewall alludes to an asymmetry of doctrine and seeks to rectify these differences by transposing their values onto employers in India. So confident are Stonewall in their moral conviction, they declare: “We make sure that the world hears and learns from our communities…” The notion of moral impetus driving the proliferation of an ideology globally is overwhelmingly familiar, not least in India where missionaries have operated for centuries.

Stonewall, the new missionaries, continue a surprisingly old tradition of foreign religious dissemination in India….

And there's a lot of money to be made.

India is an emerging market for elective cosmetic surgeries and government initiatives to fund “trans healthcare” have been rolled out. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019 has ensured that Indian employers are “ripe” for the picking. It is notable that Stonewall’s recent foray into new territory comes in the form of the “India Workplace Equality Index.” Furthermore, they celebrate The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) as their “Industry Partner.” On the face of it, Stonewall maintains on its website that it is free to submit to the Index, however mission and money are inextricable. As Naomi Cunningham of Legal Feminist points out, in submitting to the index:

• • You pay for lots of Stonewall training.
  • You pay for membership of a scheme that wins you the privilege of being – by turns – patronizingly congratulated and sanctimoniously nagged about how well you’ve absorbed and implemented that training.

Cunningham’s use of the word “patronizingly” is perfectly apt. Indeed, the language on their website and their “Gold, Silver, and Bronze” award scheme for example, while appearing kind or helpful, betrays a feeling of superiority. The phrase popularized by Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” comes to mind. The poem expresses a sense of duty asserted by white people to manage the affairs of perceived lesser developed brown people.

The White Man's Burden, back in the day, was seen as the responsibility of spreading the benefits of modernity to a supposedly backward people. Stonewall now claim to see through the colonialist mindset. From their Global Business Guide:

"Western global businesses specifically must understand that some power imbalances stem from historical factors such as the impacts of colonialism, including the legacy of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. The racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and practices of colonialism are well known and well documented, and have had a devastating impact on the lives of millions of global citizens for centuries."

But really they're just importing another religion.

However, Stonewall is blind to the parallels that can be drawn between the missionaries of old and their own moral conviction to propagate what is itself a religious ideology dependent on a belief in the “gendered soul”- that of transgenderism.