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A high-profile appeal against the Charity Commission's decision to register the LGB Alliance as a charity is expected to go to trial in 2022.

The Scottish Government wants its 8,000 civil servants to add pronouns to their email signatures despite nearly 60 per cent saying they are against the move. Employees would be encouraged to include terms that reflect their gender identity such as she/her, he/him, they/them or non standard terms such as zie or zir. Many have praised the move and said it would foster an open culture that is supportive of the LGBTI+ community, The Telegraph said. But it said an internal survey orchestrated to g...

Transgender and gender diverse youth need high-quality medical care just as other teenagers The Endocrine Society and a coalition of LGBTQ+ youth and reproductive health organizations argued in a joint submission to the High Court of England and Wales that transgender teenagers should be able to give informed consent to treatment the same way teenagers with other medical conditions can. The coalition submitted a written intervention as part of the appeal of Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Heal...

Illustration. (Photo: Getty Images) More than 40 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people experience conflict – such as being undermined, humiliated or discriminated against – at work, according to a recent report. This figure rises to 55 percent for transgender and non-binary staff, compared with 29 percent for their heterosexual colleagues.  The report from the (CIPD), suggests that these issues are often left unresolved and more needs to be done to protect and...

Mermaids are appealing the widely controversial decision by the Charity Commission to award the LGB Alliance charitable status.

Trans kids charity Mermaids said that the decision to register the LGB Alliance as a charity was wrong and should be overturned.

Trans groups have launched an appeal against the Charity Commission over its decision to make a controversial lesbian, gay and bisexual organisation a charity. The LGB Alliance was made a charity in April after the commission decided the group was beneficial to the public through its educational and awareness-raising activities about discrimination based on sexual orientation. However, the move caused fury among some groups who took exception to the LGB Alliances transgender policies.   On T...

In court documents seen by the PA news agency, Mermaids argues the commission was wrong to make the LGB Alliance a charity, as it does not offer a positive benefit to the public. The charities also argue that one of the LGB Alliance’s aims is to oppose changes to the law or lobby government bodies to restrict transgender people’s legal rights and protections. “In reality, LGB Alliance seeks only to operate for the benefit of lesbian and gay people who are both not transgender and share LG...

Stonewall has backed transgender activists in a legal challenge to the charitable status of a rival campaign group that is accused of “denigrating trans people”.In an increasingly bitter row

Mermaids claims LGB Alliance is ‘polarising anti-trans campaign group’