It has not long been announced that the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance (LGBA) has won their tribunal case to remove their charity registration a case which was brought by the paediatric transgender organisation Mermaids. The Telegraph said that the case, the first of its kind, was brought by Mermaids who made the claim that the LGBA was a ‘front’ for ‘transphobia’ and a ‘political campaign’ to prevent legislative changes around the issue of transgenderism.
The Telegraph said:
A controversial trans group’s legal battle to get a new gay rights charity struck off has been dismissed by judges.
Mermaids, a charity for transgender, nonbinary and gender diverse children and their families, had launched the unprecedented legal action to remove the LGB Alliance from the charity register in the first case of its kind.
However today Judge Griffin and Judge Neville from the General Regulatory Chamber dismissed the appeal to have the LGB Alliance removed from the register.
Mermaids, which itself is facing a Charity Commission investigation, had claimed the LGB alliance was a front for transphobia and political campaigning to prevent changes in the law and took both the charity and the watchdog to court.
This is a massive win for the LGBA against an opponent who is in my view represents a gender identity ideology which is a disgraceful parasitical pustule on the LGB communities which it has attached itself to and a group in the form of Mermaids, which has been at the forefront of promoting gender identity ideology to vulnerable and confused children and teenagers. The win at the Tribunal is a win not just against the purveyors of a pretty awful and damaging ideology and its promoters, but is also a win for the children of Britain, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual people and for common sense.
The LGBA commented on their significant and welcome win against Mermaids in their statement on their website.
The LGBA said:
General Regulatory Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal rules that
Mermaids had no legal right to challenge LGB Alliance’s charitable status
Mermaids and the Good Law Project, forced the UK’s only charity that stands exclusively for the rights of LGB people to defend its charitable status in a six-day tribunal hearing. Today’s judgment confirmed, as LGB Alliance had argued from the start, that Mermaids had no legal basis on which to bring this challenge.
Responding to this judgment, Kate Barker, Chief Executive Officer of LGB Alliance, said:
“We are absolutely delighted with this judgment and with the news that we will retain our charitable status.
Two years ago, we were clear that Mermaids had no standing to challenge our registration and today the tribunal has confirmed that we were correct.
Whilst this is a battle we did not seek, neither would we flee from it. But the cost to us and to our supporters has been huge.
Our legal fees amount to more than £250K and that money has come from small supporter donations. So, whilst our win is great news for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals, we can’t help but reflect on the fact that a sum like that would have been better spent on projects such as our Helpline for young people, our LGB Archive and our Friends’ Network.
This case did, however, provide a welcome opportunity to talk about our work in a public forum and we hope that the era of ‘no debate’ is over.”
The Tribunal said, “the fundamental rationale of the democratic process upon which our society is founded is that when competing views, opinions and policies are publicly debated and exposed to public scrutiny, the good will over time drive out the bad and the true will prevail over the false. Only when differing views are expressed, contradicted, answered and debated will the legislature be able to obtain the fullest picture of the views held by those they represent.”
It looks like that because of this judgement which has said that Mermaids have no basis in law to bring this case there will be little opportunity for Mermaids to appeal. Even if they do manage to find some legal route to appeal this judgement, then all it will achieve is yet more reputational damage to Mermaids themselves as it’s likely that more of their horrendous ideology will be aired in open court and this will turn the public even further against them.
The Trans movement has for years promoted the idea that there is ‘no debate’ to be had over the issue of gender ideology and how that ideology is implemented. Trans activists have used the ‘no debate’ scam to silence everyone who asks awkward questions about this ideology for far too long and maybe this judgement will be seen in the future as the point when the era of no debate being allowed about the trans issue ended.
Congratulations LGBA. You didn’t ask for this fight but they and their legal team fought a fabulous fight against Mermaids. Well done everyone.
There are some areas where “No Debate” is legitimate, such as the Holocaust, gun control, global warming.
This just isn’t one of them. Mermaids are just ever so slightly deranged.
Well I’ll agree with you on the issue of denial of the Holocaust as we’ve more than adequate evidence that it happened I’d also add in the fact that the earth is an oblate spheroid into the no debate category. Everything else is fair game and up for debate. I disagree with you that Mermaids are ‘slightly deranged’ because they are totally deranged. You have to be pretty deranged to believe that mutilating both surgically and chemically young people with identity issues is the correct way to go.
Jolyon Maugham loses again.
Losing cases seems to be what the Fox-batterer is good at. Hearts must sink among those bringing cases supported by the Good Law Project when they realist that Joylon is going to be handling their case.
Have you seen JK Rowling’s response to the Foxbatterer claiming that the Mermaids case could have been won by him? It’s absolutely excellent. It reads: The unsophisticated might think Jolyon has had his arse handed to him on a plate, but it’s important to remember that losing is on a spectrum, and Jolyon identifies as someone who would have won if only his side weren’t trying to exercise legal rights they didn’t have.”
Yes, but I’m still a bit confused about all this, and potential double standards. The LBG Alliance appear to be telling us it’s ok for a lesbian couple to have a child via IVF and a sperm donor but in a relationship including a trans person as the other parent red flags should be raised and it should be treated as a totally different situation?
I’m old enough to remember the early eighties when Lesbian couples lived in great fear of having their kids taken by social services who were not exactly supportive of lesbian parents at the time. Some might say that this situation then is an analogue of the ‘trans parent’ situation tolday and some also believe that the furious reaction to the trans pretend mum that ITV foisted on its viewers is similar to the crap LGB parents got in the past, but it is not. Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual sexualities are based clearly in biological reality with the only issue being with what sex you find you are attracted to. Minority sexualities do not come accompanied with psychiatric co-morbidities as too many in the trans community do. LBG people do not on the whole demand special pronouns or require others to deny reality or validate what is at its heart a mental health issue. Putting the ‘transmum’ front and centre as ITV did and what he did himself is an arrogant move on the part of the media and those promoting this fake mum. It’s saying that women, actual born women with XX chromosomes don’t count and only the women with XY chromasomes and penises are important.
Having been up close and personal with a lot of really decent trans people, genuine transsexuals that is not the predators who are putting on a dress and taking the piss and seen the psych co-morbidities that too many of these individuals suffer from it would be quite easily and quite just to see these co-morbidities as a red flag.
I don’t see a double standard here. You can be LBG and totally stone cold sober sane, but trans is a different issue, this is a mental illness and for the proper transsexuals I’ve interacted with transition was the last chance saloon after all other avenues to assist and bring comfort have failed. The red flag here is the fact that transgenderism is a form of mental illness and also an illness that might be masking other conditions.