RockandRollsuicide · Today 11:29
What is stonewall I've noticed dd secondary school has raised money for it.
Are you joking, or putting out bait? If not, what it is, is a very bad idea for your DD’s secondary school.
It is a lobby group originally formed to help gay people have rights in society. It did very good work in this regard.
When that was largely achieved, it moved on to transgender rights but using Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual ‘orientations chained to Transgender identities^ so that the T gets the sympathy for the LGB. Thus people are supposedly now grouped as being LGBT (Q+)
They are not just lobbying for trans gender people’s well being, but for the promotion of the acceptance of T people by gender to be included where people were previously classified by their sex. This matters say if a woman’s refuge now feels that trans women (male bodied people) must be included.
One of the most contradictory things said by their head last year was the suggestion that lesbian women should examine their prejudices if they are not attracted to trans women (male bodied people). This is conflating sex with gender. Of course there is no reason why a lesbian woman should feel attracted to a man who has become a trans woman. So in that context the T is being set at odds with the LG apparent umbrella of LGBT.
There is also the concern that gender non conforming children, or simply children who feel they don’t fit in, ( or have experienced trauma, or are autistic) most of whom will grow up to be heterosexual, but some of whom may grow up to be gay, are instead being given the impression starting from Stonewall and Mermaids influenced resources at school and on-line, that they have a female brain or soul trapped in a male body, or vice versa. If this leads to them trying to change their body, the effects are more harmful and permanent than simply being gay: ‘transing away the gay’ can be the result.
Every kind of institution was/is paying for it not only to advise them, but also validate them according to their adherence to its principles. If an institution does not do as they say, they will lose points and appear to the public to lacking.
Public money is being spent on them.
It has been very harmful in spreading false ideology , often based on lack of scientific evidence, and sometimes misinterpreting or manipulating the law, though it even influenced guidance for the judiciary, and NHS. In the NHS information now ‘gender’ free language can mean erasing words like ‘woman’ or ‘breast feeding’.
Last autumn the House of Lords had to fight for the word ‘Mother’ to be included in a bill regarding leave for female MPs who were pregnant. They really wanted to be allowed the word ‘woman’ but ‘mother’ was finally allowed as a compromise. Words like sex ‘assigned at birth’ are wrongly used, and confusion over whether gender is being used as a euphemism for sex, or to mean an identity, are everywhere.
People are now being pressured to specify ‘pronouns’ at work even if they do not share the belief that they have a ‘gender identity’
The Nolan podcasts about Stonewall
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p09yjmph
explains much better than I can, as could other more knowledgeable and eloquent posters.
Some institutions have now pulled out, famously the BBC.