Stonewall did a lot of work towards getting the equal rights to services, goods and rights that a lot of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual people enjoy today. They were not the only ones who helped to achieve this, thousands of people both from the activist side and normal LGB people showing everyone that they were not anything to be afraid of in my view did the bulk of work towards normalising LGB people. Where the Stonewall group played their part, was dealing with the political classes possibly because many of those in Stonewall in its early days had skills in these areas and knew that to change laws you needed to deal with lawmakers.

But genuine equal rights has now been achieved. You can’t be sacked from a teaching, medical or civil service job merely because you are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Same sex couples can now marry and adopt and serve in the military, there are no legal or employment impediments to a gay person in the UK today.

Stonewall should have recognised that they, like the Western anti-slavery movement in the 19^th century, had achieved what few other groups have managed, which was to fully realise their aims. Slavery is no longer legal in the West and also it is not legal to treat a gay person less than how you would treat a straight person. Stonewall should have packed up and gone home and those involved in the campaigns for LGB equality should have allowed themselves to rest on their laurels and maybe even have a bit of a party.

Unfortunately Stonewall did not do this. Rather than retire as victors, they instead tried to make themselves relevant by climbing onto the bandwagon of the cult of trans, a cult that I believe is very different and supports very different aims than those of ordinary transsexual people. Many of the ordinary transsexuals I have encountered just want to be left alone to get on with their lives. They are not demanding access to gender neutral toilets or to compete against female athletes, trying to erase women and women’s spaces or screaming about their pronouns, that is the preserve of the gender activists. What Stonewall have done is choose to support these gender activists and indulge their demands that society should conform to their demands. They’ve done this even though these demands might not be what a lot of transsexual people want or desire.

Why Stonewall have done this can be looked at in two ways. The more charitable way is that their activists were on a high because of their successes and wanted the high to continue. The less charitable explanation is that Stonewall knew that with the major battles being won, their group had no further relevance and that the existence of the organisation and jobs of their staff were in jeopardy. In other words Stonewall climbed aboard the trans bandwagon as a form of grift.

In order to keep the show on the road, Stonewall have had to go to greater and greater extremes, such as pushing the delusions of the so called ‘non binaries’ who may see themselves as a little bit woman/man towards the middle of the week unless there wasn’t an ‘r’ in the month. Stonewall have sidelined the many transsexuals who have, after long periods of therapy and self examination, gone down the often dangerous and sometimes unsuccessful route of surgical and chemical transition to present to the world the body image that they wish to present. Instead Stonewall have favoured the transvestites, gender fetishists, gender erasure extremists and non-binary attention seekers who might in themselves be mostly harmless in and of themselves, but whose views should not be promoted in order to change or inform government policy.

Stonewall once had a broad degree of support from reasonable people who could see that in the vast majority of cases it mattered little whether or not a person was homo, hetero or bisexual. To paraphrase MLK, people should be judged on the content of their character and by their skills and abilities, not because they are attracted to the same, both or opposite sexes. I seem to recall during the debate about gays in the military one soldier say that it was better to have with them on the battlefield a gay colleague who could shoot straight rather than a straight colleague who shot bent? When it’s put like that the argument for equality is difficult to refute. What consenting adults do in private is all too often irrelevant to their jobs and societal positions and a lot of people saw this argument, matched it up with their everyday experience of LGB people and agreed.

Stonewall was once asking for things that many saw as reasonable, which was for people not to be disadvantaged in any appreciable or serious way just because they were LGB. However now that they have climbed on the trans bandwagon, they are not asking or demanding things that are reasonable, they are asking for stuff that is unreasonable. When Stonewall demands that schools stop using the terms ‘boys and girls ‘ to describe their pupils or support things like gender self ID, paediatric gender transition or to shake-down companies and public bodies in order to provide ‘diversity audits’, then what public support they once may have had is lost. Reasonable people would once have listened and taken note of Stonewall’s reasonable case for not treating LGB people like shit. However those same reasonable people are less inclined, often for damn good and sound reasons, to listen to a group that seems to have lost its purpose and been hollowed out and infiltrated by gender activists. It’s increasingly obvious that these gender activist extremists are not fighting for equal rights, but instead merely want power over others such as the power to compel speech, silence those who ask questions and propagandise their views to others without any challenge to these views.

Stonewall is the rotting corpse of what it once was. I believe that it is perfectly reasonable to no longer take this group seriously as it has outlived its usefulness. Government ministers are quite right to call for public bodies to distance themselves from Stonewall because Stonewall no longer represents people who because of their sexuality were once discriminated against and now represent little more than the unreasonable demands of gender extremists. Stonewall should shut up shop and let its legacy be that it successfully fought and campaigned for the rights of LGB people to be treated equally. Keeping going and being little more than a bully pulpit for gender extremists is going to do Stonewall’s legacy no good at all.