It's an AIBU but it belongs here - Stonewall

What they are doing is telling 12 year old children who are growing into sexual maturity that 20 something men & women are their peers. They are not. It helps facilitate grooming & abuse.

Absolutely!!!!

Regardless of whether a 12 year old knows they are gay or heterosexual or trans or wants to join the army, they shouldn't be lumped in with 23 year olds.

It's time some adults fucking grew up and started adulting properly.

Absolutely. Case in point, the group Allison was talking about just tweeted this. "Suck your mums". Haven't heard that since I was in school.

Methinks Allison has a point...

Obviously its possible to know you are gay at age 12. Maybe even trans. But a child that age is not able to make the life changing decision to change sex, take puberty blockers, and embark on a pathway that will damage their physical and potentially mental health longer term. Children rely on adults to make those decisions for them in their best interests. They rely on adults to keep them safe. It's time some adults fucking grew up and started adulting properly.

What they are doing is telling 12 year old children who are growing into sexual maturity that 20 something men & women are their peers. They are not. It helps facilitate grooming & abuse.

This is what she has tweeted.

The sun is shining with Allison.

I apologise, I think I missed the point! Still, never mind. At least it wasn’t deliberate!

“is whipping up a backlash […] based on a false premise”

That’s their modus operandi. They pretend that “trans“ is wholly equivalent to gay or lesbian and that anyone objecting now would have been a homophobe a few years back.

The fact that many of those objecting now weren’t homophobes, but homosexual, and the very obvious fact that “being trans” is wholly dissimilar to being gay or lesbian is brushed aside as a minor irrelevance.

This particular episode might have been stimulated by Alison’s tweet, but it’s not a new technique.

But it's a dishonest representation of the issue

Which is pretty much stonewall in a nutshell these days. It’s what they do. Deliberately. They gotta earn those donations!

I saw the thread and I thought Allison made it perfectly clear that it was putting 12 year olds in the same group as 23 year olds that was her concern. If Stonewall are seriously trying to imply otherwise it's because she's formidable and probably scares the crap out of them.

I think garden is right, it was because of Allison Bailey bringing up the safeguarding issue by lumping in 12 year olds with 23 year olds.

They (Exist Loudly, their group) told Allison to fuck off so not the kind of people I'd like my child contacting, tbh.

I think this is to do with Allison Bailey's tweet about a survey being targeted at age 12-23 year old black lgbtetcx people with a payment of £15 promised for completing the survey.
They are asking children to dm them and then presumably give out personal details to allow payment - safeguarding red flag ahoy!!