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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 Alliance's transgender policies.   On Tuesday, transgender children's charity Mermaids launched an appeal against the decision, with the m...

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 LGBA’s beliefs,” the charity’s appeal said. Susie Green, CEO of Mermaids, said: “Mermaids supp...

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’