EHRC cuts ties with Stonewall.

I was really excited by the title of this thread, but ... a bit like a Pink News headline it makes a leap beyond what is none.

Stopping being a Diversity Champion is great / fantastic.

This doesn't mean they will refuse to ever talk with Stonewall again.

Which is a shame.

But the damage of the Diversity Champion Scheme by this move will be enourmous.

Assuming it ever gets widely reported.

Let's hope the DM etc., are doing their daily check of FWR threads to see if there might be a news story in it for them!

This feels really significant.

But, along with feeling optimistic, I am also a bit cynical.

It just seems that these institutions are actually finally taking the temperature of public opinion and reacting to that. If we hadn't worked so hard in getting the actual facts out there, supporting Keira Bell, Maya Forstster, Allison Bailey, it would still be creeping in through the back door just like in the US, in Ireland, in Australia.....

And some very brave women (and a few men, like Glinner and James Dreyfus) have paid a very high price.

I do feel this will come to an end, and soon. But most women will never really know just how close we all came to loosing so much. It will go out like it came in, by the back door, sneaking off quietly hoping no-one will notice and the main players will never be held to account.

The likes of Daniel Radcliffe and Emily Watson, Eddie redmayne, all those comedians and broadcasters and writers, they will never be called on to apologise or even examine what they said and why it was so harmful..... It will just fade away, because thankfully the worst will never happen.

I kind of hope there is some sort of reckoning. But I will settle for harm avoided....

So it is true, well, well, well.

Absolutely right that the EHRC should not be in the pocket of Stonewall an organisation that persistently and deliberately gives false information about the contents and purpose of the Equality Act. Other Government departments and publicly funded institutions need to distance themselves now as well, no-one voted for Stonewall to make up the Law of the land.

This is why Stonewall hod their online list of Stonewall Diversity Champions, isn't it. Because they lost the EHRC.

Really hope it is true and no more champion scheme for them or other public bodies. And no backroom deals taking its public place.

Wow this is good news. Certainly at face value. Wonder if it will have a domino effect. Here's hoping.

Thanks for posting this - the topic came up in the Harrington thread and you've found a link that confirms it.