Singer Alison Moyet joins anti-trans activists in letter attacking LGBT charity Stonewall

Oct 5, 2018 by Andrew Symes

By Nick Duffy, Pink News.

Singer Alison Moyet has signed a letter criticising LGBT charity Stonewall for supporting transgender rights.

The “All Cried Out” singer, a regular performer at Pride events in the UK, was one of the 17 signatories of the letter, published in The Times on October 4, attacking Stonewall for backing trans-inclusive changes to the Gender Recognition Act.

Stonewall historically campaigned only on lesbian, gay and bisexual issues until chief executive Ruth Hunt led the adoption of a transgender-inclusive stance in 2015, recruiting a Trans Advisory Board and beginning to campaign for reforms to bolster legal recognition of trans people. The charity recently adopted the slogan ‘Trans Women are Women, Get Over It!’ on merchandise.

The letter took issue with the charity’s broadened mission and claims its work is “undermining women’s sex-based rights and protections.”

It claims that “it is vital for there to be a debate about transgender politics and the rights of women and girls,” and attacks Stonewall for purportedly “call[ing] debate on this matter ‘transphobic.’”

The letter continues: “We urge Stonewall to acknowledge that there are a range of valid viewpoints around sex, gender and transgender politics, and to acknowledge specifically that a conflict exists between transgenderism and sex-based women’s rights.

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