
LGB Matters
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24-10-2012 02:19:27
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Our trustee Robert Wintemute calls for Scottish gender recognition reforms to be halted and explains how his views changed by listening to women's concerns. Far from being international best practice, self-id will simply fuel more demands from lobbyists. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/0…

Our mission is to oppose discrimination against LGB people. In April, we vowed to fight what we believe is the discriminatory decision to revoke the grant for our short film “Very British Gays”. We’re pleased to see ACE being challenged for improper bias. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/0…

Our Managing Director Kate Barker spoke to Julia Hartley-Brewer this morning about outrageous comments made by Arts Council England staff prior to the decision to withdraw the £9,000 grant for our short film, "Very British Gays". youtube.com/watch?v=JTJzKf…


Today’s judgment in Edinburgh is dramatic and important. We intervened in support of For Women Scotland because we believe our rights as LGB people are based on biological sex and were concerned that Scottish govt legislation would undermine this in law. 1/ heraldscotland.com/politics/23188…


When it comes to medicalisation of gender-questioning youth, research into whether this improves mental health is sparse and low quality. This new report from Sex Matters attempts to fill in the gaps, and finds it may be worse than a placebo 👇 sex-matters.org/posts/publicat…



Today we and a wide range of co-signatories have written to Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland. It is our view that the Scottish GRRB will remove our rights under the protected characteristic of sexual orientation in the Equality Act 2010. 1/2 lgballiance.org.uk/our-letter-to-…



Tonje faces prosecution in Norway for stating the truth: only women are lesbians. Join us alongside LesbianLabour at our fabulous women only events for speakers, socialising, music and resistance. Tickets released this week…



Our first "Lesbian Not Criminal" event is underway in Edinburgh now. On the panel with Tonje Gjevjon we have Rhona Hotchkiss Nicole Jones Paula Boulton of LesbianLabour and Joanna Cherry KC in the chair.


Lesbians without liberty Sex matters new report from Sex Matters on how the UK denies freedom of association to lesbians Foreword by Joanna Cherry KC sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…


We recently organised a national tour with LesbianLabour called 'Lesbian not Criminal', warning about how new laws like Gender Self-ID undermine the right of lesbians to insist only females can be lesbians and only males can be gay men. Here's a taster of the London event👇