Mermaids against the LGB Alliance. The case was not about the gender wars, but charities law.
by Barbara Rich, Conservative Home:
During the autumn of 2022, over 200 people joined by video link to observe the hearing of evidence and legal argument in Mermaids v. (1) The Charity Commission for England and Wales and (2) LGB Alliance. Judgment in the case was published and made headlines last week. Public interest flowed from seeing the case as a front in the “gender wars” between proponents and opponents of a range of beliefs about sex and gender identity.
Mermaids, a charity established in 1995 with the purpose of “relieving the mental and emotional stress of children and young people under 19, and their families, affected by gender identity issues, and advancing public education in these issues”, appealed against the Charity Commission’s April 2021 decision to register as a charity the LGB Alliance, an organisation formed in 2019 “to promote equality and diversity in respect of lesbian, gay and bisexual people” according to its registered objects.
Its founders were two lesbians with a long history in rights campaigning and whose public statements about the application for charitable status expressed a clear intention to “challenge the dominance of those who promote the damaging theory of gender identity”. But as the two judges who decided the case explained, it was not about the gender wars, but the law of charities.
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