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# Petition condemns LGB Alliance
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/petition-condemns-lgb-alliance/
- Published: 2020-12-18T16:16:39.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-19T09:51:53.000Z
- Description: A change.org petition has called for UK media outlets to stop uncritically platforming the anti-trans group, LGB Alliance.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, ban conversion therapy, BBC, David Paisley, LGB Alliance, LGBTQ, Melanie Dawes, Ofcom, Transgender, UK

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/trans-rightss-1.jpg)

A change.org [petition ](https://www.change.org/p/uk-media-stop-uncritically-platforming-lgb-alliance-hate-group?utm%5Fcontent=cl%5Fsharecopy%5F26290267%5Fen-GB%3A8&recruiter=7909459&utm%5Fsource=share%5Fpetition&utm%5Fmedium=copylink&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Fpetition)has called for **UK** media outlets to stop uncritically platforming the anti-trans group, LGB Alliance. The petition, created by Scottish actor, director and LGBTQ+ activist, **David Paisley**, has now amassed over 8,000 signatures, with the aim of reaching 10,000\. It reads: *“The LGB Alliance are widely thought of as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group, as such any discussion in the UK media should frame them with respect to how they are perceived by the LGBTQ+ community.”*

It urges media platforms to refrain from including comments from the LGB Alliance in articles on LGBTQ+ related topics: “*They do not speak for us, and they should not be quoted or asked to comment on issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community without clear and unequivocal reference to their status as a perceived hate group…We reject anti-trans rhetoric & support our fellow community members. Trans rights are human rights.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ebo5ytmxyaej5sg.jpg)

Paisley also[ condemned ](https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1339546552306679809?ref=scenemag.co.uk)the LGB Alliance after finding evidence of it supporting trans-conversion therapy, which he described as a *“form of torture”,* adding: *“Sexuality and gender are part of who we are as people, therapy that seeks to impose an identity on someone that doesn’t fit who they are isn’t theraputic, it’s cruel.”*

The **BBC** were heavily criticised for including a comment from the LGB Alliance in an article about long waiting times for the NHS’s only gender clinic, which argued young people should not be able to ‘self-diagnose’ gender dysphoria. **Ofcom** chief executive, **Melanie Dawes**, [criticised](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/ofcom-boss-criticises-bbcs-platforming-of-anti-trans-groups/) the broadcaster for ‘balancing’ out trans voices with anti-trans groups, saying it was *“extremely inappropriate”*.

[**You can sign the petition via this link here:**](https://www.change.org/p/uk-media-stop-uncritically-platforming-lgb-alliance-hate-group?utm%5Fcontent=cl%5Fsharecopy%5F26290267%5Fen-GB%3A8&recruiter=7909459&utm%5Fsource=share%5Fpetition&utm%5Fmedium=copylink&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Fpetition)

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/trans-rights-now-600-400.jpg)