Mick Hartley

The LGB's Bev Jackson on their court victory against Mermaids last week:

So, what was all this about? What does LGB Alliance stand for and why do gender ideologues hate us so much?

LGB Alliance is the UK’s only charity dedicated to defending the rights of same-sex-attracted people. The new LGBTQ+ crowd, like the homophobes of old, find that distasteful. They say people are not attracted to others because of their sex, but because of their ‘gender identity’ – a subjective, inner feeling that no one is allowed to question or criticise. This means that a bloke who ‘identifies’ as a woman can call himself a lesbian. And anyone who dares to disagree is a bigot. Or a fascist. Or, in the stunning words of outgoing Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelley, any lesbian who doesn’t want to have sex with him is a ‘sexual racist’.

At LGB Alliance, we don’t buy it. And that is not because we are ‘rights-hoarding dinosaurs’, as shadow foreign secretary David Lammy might put it. We’ve come to this conclusion because we are constantly speaking to young people who are suffering under the gender-identity regime. Some of the most affected are young women and girls. They tell us ‘lesbian’ is a dirty word at school, but to be ‘trans’ is awesome.

Some young men and women tell us they opted for medical and surgical transition because they thought it would improve their mental health. In fact, it did the opposite. Now they are furious that their mental-health struggles were not properly explored by those who they had trusted to help them. They wish they had received proper care when they were in their teens, instead of being encouraged to transition. Many of these young people are gay, lesbian or bisexual and had difficulties coming to terms with their sexual orientation.

LGB Alliance wants young people to feel good about their sexual orientation, rather than feel like they have to change their bodies. We’d like them to have inspiring gay and lesbian role models. We know the vital importance of puberty as a key process in human development. We think that blocking it – except in extreme medical circumstances – is unforgivable. We believe that what is euphemistically called ‘gender-affirming healthcare’ – giving puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgeries to young people – will eventually be revealed as a major medical scandal. Those promoting and celebrating these irreversible interventions naturally feel we are undermining their mission. They’re right – we are….

When LGB Alliance was founded in 2019, our message was clear. We are lesbians, gay men and bisexuals who reject gender-identity dogma, along with the whole kit and caboodle of preferred pronouns, gender self-identification and the dismantling of child safeguarding. In making this statement, we exposed the cuckoos in the gay-rights nest. No wonder these LGBT activists wanted to strangle us at birth.