by Georgina Mumford, spiked
From Sophie Ellis-Bextor to the Sugababes, Britain’s luvvies are singing the same damaging tune on gender.
In March of next year, London’s Wembley Arena is set to host ‘Trans Mission’ – a star-studded charity concert in aid of ‘transgender rights’. Artists slated to make an appearance include the Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and Kate Nash. The line-up also features a host of celebrity guest appearances, from actors Ian McKellen and Russell Tovey to Green Party leader Zack Polanski.
Trans Mission has been put together by actor, singer and Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander, who himself identifies as ‘gay and queer and nonbinary’. The event is being held in direct response to April’s UK Supreme Court ruling, which found that the word ‘woman’, as per the Equality Act 2010, refers to biological sex (shock horror!). Responding to this victory for women’s rights, Alexander expressed in a statement that ‘real and lasting change’ is now needed. Apparently, we all have a responsibility to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’ that is supposedly affecting the trans community.
Working with the Mighty Hoopla festival, Alexander hopes to raise funds for Not a Phase – a charity offering social events for ‘gender-diverse adults’ and workshops on ‘trans+ inclusion’ – and Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project. The latter is a hyper-partisan lawfare outfit masquerading as a charity, which routinely loses cases while burning through donors’ money. The Good Law Project has consistently pushed for British children to be allowed to access puberty blockers, despite the clear harms that were identified in the Cass Review back in 2024.