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# LGBTQ+ groups respond to  LGB Alliance gaining charitable status
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/anti-trans-lgb-alliance-granted-charitable-status/
- Published: 2021-04-23T11:30:31.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-23T09:42:37.000Z
- Description: LGBTQ+ community responds to LGBAlliance gaining charitable status
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, LGB Alliance, Mermaids, Pride in London, Stonewall, Trans Rights, UK

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Controversial anti-trans group, the **LGB Alliance** gaining charitable status from the **UK** government has sparked a backlash among LGBTQ+ activists and advocacy organisations. Reacting to the Charity Commission expressing concerns on their previous social media stance and on the record remarks of Trans peoples, the alliance shared a statement on social media after the decision, [saying](https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1384455267530772481?ref=scenemag.co.uk): *“LGB Alliance is reviving the campaign to protect the rights of people with same-sex sexual orientation”*, but has since seen criticism from many other LGBTQ+ organisations.

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**Stonewall** said it is *“upsetting to see that an organisation who were founded to oppose our work towards trans rights have been granted status as a registered charity.”* Trans rights group, **Mermaids**, [referred](https://twitter.com/Mermaids%5FGender/status/1384501752624410630?ref=scenemag.co.uk) to the Charity Commission’s decision as a *“deeply disturbing…reckless and damaging act of betrayal”,* and encouraged trans people and allies to submit complaints to the board.

The **LGBT Foundation** said in response to the the Charity Commission’s decision to register the LGB Alliance. “We are shocked that the Charity Commission has registered the self-styled LGB Alliance as we do not believe that any organisation which actively targets and campaigns against trans communities should be granted charitable status,”.

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The LGB Alliance has faced criticism since it was established in 2019 in opposition to trans inclusive policies laid out by Stonewall, and has been branded a hate group by **Pride In London** and the **Labour Campaign for Trans Rights.** LGBTQ+ rights lawyer and director of the **Good Law Project, Jo Maugham**, condemned the Charity Commission’s decision, [saying](https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1384476947850268677?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384476947850268677%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1%5F&ref%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fnews%2Flgb-alliance-charity-commission-controversy-b1834552&ref=scenemag.co.uk): *“The consequence of this Panglossian stance on the activities of a hate group is that your taxes will now be used to subsidise transphobia.”*

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