Stonewall: the state’s favourite consultancy firm

There is nothing wrong with activists. But when they start pulling the strings of government and, through it, telling the rest of us what we can and can’t do, it’s time to worry. In this regard, a recent episode concerning the pressure group Stonewall should give us pause.

Stonewall was founded in 1989 as a campaign group calling, quite rightly, for the state to stop interfering in gay people’s lives. Unfortunately, it has since become increasingly right-on, and especially focused on trans activism. It is also now very much part of the woke capitalist establishment, with a commercial income from membership and consultancy estimated at £3million per year.

One organisation that signed up to Stonewall as a ‘diversity champion’, undertaking to support its agenda and pay it a substantial membership fee, was the Crown Prosecution Service. In 2019, the CPS, having consulted Stonewall, produced a now notorious pack for teachers called Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans: Bullying and Hate Crime. This was aimed at children aged between 11 and 16; interestingly, their parents were at first refused access to it, apparently on the basis that it was too sensitive to be allowed to get into the wrong hands.

Not only did this document – coming from the body officially charged with enforcing the criminal law – propagate as incontrovertible truth controversial ideas, such as gender is a social construct, or that any opposition to LGBT ideology was a product of ‘homophobic attitudes’. It also propagated a long list of what it saw as hate crimes and hate incidents (not always carefully distinguished). And it even insinuated that children could get into trouble with the state for: ostracising or excluding people from friendship groups for reasons of sexual orientation; any anti-LGBT+ posting on social media; or, in one example given, objecting in strong terms to a person using lavatories designated for the opposite sex.

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