Scandal-hit Mermaids loses bid to strip trans-critical group of charitable status
from The Christian Institute:
Trans-activist group Mermaids has lost its attempt to force the Charity Commission to revoke the charitable status of gender-critical group LGB Alliance.
A First-tier Tribunal at the General Regulatory Chamber in London dismissed the case, saying Mermaids has “no legal right to operate free of criticism” or challenge the Commission’s decision to register LGB Alliance as a charity.
The LGB Alliance opposes trans ideology and has publicly challenged Mermaids’ work, branding it ‘undeserving of public money’. Mermaids is considering an appeal.
‘Anti-democratic’
The judgment noted that “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 in order to create laws that are reflective of and required by society as a whole.”
Read also: Catching a mermaid by Malcolm Clark, Artillery Row. The LGB Alliance judgment is a victory for open debate
Why the LGB Alliance had to win by Joanna Williams, spiked
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