Sexual orientation and gender identity are separate issues. Some gay people ally themselves to the trans cause, and some don’t. Surely gay people have the right to organise politically as they see fit. She was a founder of the LGB Alliance, posited as an alternative to Stonewall. Stonewall wrote to her chambers complaining about Bailey’s views. Welcome to the new oppression, remarkably like the old oppression. For whose benefit? Lesbians are now to get over their preferences and sleep with men who identify as lesbians. Bailey is hugely impressive and yet this woman who has lived a life of exemplary radicalism has been hounded.īailey is a lesbian because she is same-sex attracted, not same-gender attracted, a notion that the handmaidens of Stonewall are keen to deconstruct. Many women I know who are gender critical are gay or have gay kids. She is concerned, above all, with male violence. She does not think men can become women because of these feelings. She was not assaulted as a child because of “feelings in her head”. She does not think womanhood is just a feeling in one’s head. She believes that biological sex is immutable and that conflating sex with the made up notion of “gender identity” will leave women with no legally enforceable boundaries against men. So what did Bailey do so wrong that has caused Stonewall to complain to her employers? She has done “wrongthink”. Last October it was agreed that Bailey could pursue her claim against her employer and Stonewall for direct discrimination against her gender critical beliefs, as well as indirect victimisation. That you were seen as easy prey, the daughter of a single parent, and were drugged and sexually assaulted many times or that the man who was convicted for these crimes has now been released from prison.Īll of these are just episodes in the life of Allison Bailey, a formidable barrister who is suing both Stonewall and her chambers, Garden Court (a member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme) for their treatment of her.
It cannot be easy to disclose as an adult the sexual abuse that happened to you as a nine-year-old.
It cannot be easy, after a lifetime of supporting radical causes and becoming a criminal barrister, to find that at your workplace there are complaints about you orchestrated by a group set up originally to protect gay rights: Stonewall. Section 28, which was implemented in 1988, left gay teenagers with little support. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.It cannot have been easy to be a black woman of Jamaican heritage in the late 1980s, living in Oxford and realising you were a lesbian. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering.
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