LGB Alliance Advert for Scottish Voters

[LostToucan]

LGB Alliance has taken out an ad in the The Herald to explain “what is a lesbian”.

Hopefully this will be a timely reminder for voters on Thursday?

[LostToucan]

Advert:

[Ereshkigalangcleg]

Goodness, I can just imagine how that's going to go down in certain corners of Twitter!

[LostToucan]

It’s also highlighting the need for single sex spaces for women.

[Ereshkigalangcleg]

Good on them!

[littlbrowndog]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[Helleofabore]

That is an interesting ad.

Here is a more readable version.

twitter.com/alliancelgb/status/1389861928810565639?s=21

I am off to see who they recommend to vote for if anyone.

[LostToucan]

I saw one of the Twitter replies made reference to a 1999 US publication on lesbian women’s health as some kind of gender ID gotcha.

I skimmed it and just thought wasn’t it so much simpler when “woman” just so clearly meant adult human female.

[OhHolyJesus]

They don't shy away from the truth do they?!

Glad to see some bravery and commitment from the Herald.

[OhHolyJesus]

And the complaints come rolling in...

twitter.com/notcursede/status/1389863279837814785?s=21

[Helleofabore]

OhHOlyJesus

That particular complaint doesn’t surprise me at all.

[MummBraTheEverLeaking]

How long till the Herald bow down, claim ignorance (we didn't know what we were printing, honest guv) and promise never to entertain the LGBA again?

Hopefully never, but it's like a script these days....

[Tibtom]

The Herald really should publish a full page apology tomorrow - stating that after communication from QWERTY organisations they recognise that the advert was wrong and men can be lesbians if they want to be. And that women can be gay men too. And that it is transphobic for a gay man to turn down sex with a transman just because they were assigned female at birth.

[AngryBananaSund]

Has the twitter.com/alliancelgb/status/1389861928810565639?s=21 tweet been deleted! I’m not seeing it

[InspiralCoalescenceRingdown]

Great ad. Sets things out plainly and robustly.

[OhHolyJesus]

Hella

That particular complaint doesn’t surprise me at all

Nor who retweeted it

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

@AngryBananaSund

Has the twitter.com/alliancelgb/status/1389861928810565639?s=21 tweet been deleted! I’m not seeing it

It's pinned at the top of their twitter feed - for some reason the link doesn't work

[OhHolyJesus]

I can still see it Angry

twitter.com/alliancelgb/status/1389893385520046080?s=21

[TabbyStar]

Excellent. Just donated

[OhHolyJesus]

I do feel sorry for the person on the Charity Commission's Twitter account - getting tagged all the time.

[Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons]

Thank you LGBA 👏👏👏

I think we're absolutely fucked wrt to election but we need to keep making the conversation happen.

[Ereshkigalangcleg]

Which part of their code of conduct does it breach? Sex and sexual orientation are both separate from gender reassignment and the LGBA's statement is in line with the EA2010 definitions.

[allmywhat]

[quote OhHolyJesus]And the complaints come rolling in...

twitter.com/notcursede/status/1389863279837814785?s=21[/quote]
The illiterati strike again. 🙄

[yourhairiswinterfire]

@MummBraTheEverLeaking

How long till the Herald bow down, claim ignorance (we didn't know what we were printing, honest guv) and promise never to entertain the LGBA again?

Hopefully never, but it's like a script these days....

With a promise to donate to Mermaids thrown in...

[SmallPug]

I've seen quite a lot of the Twitler Youth (and the grownups who should know better) up in arms about this. Contacting charity commission etc...

[LostToucan]

AFAIK a charity can undertake political activities in support of its aims, as long as that’s not its sole reason to exist.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/610137/CC9.pdf