LGB Alliance vs Mermaids decision

[SapphosRock]

It's due any minute. So nervous.

Really hope the LGBA don't lose charitable status.

Sanity has prevailed.

I hadn't heard about this before seeing it on the guardian website.

I haven't followed the case, just seeing the one article.

So mermaids decided to side-swipe at another charity, to have them "cancelled" because it, like many people, is gender-critical? And presumably it used charitable donations for its legal case? Including money donated by the likes of Tesco?

How is Mermaids still allowed to function?

I feel a bit thick on this issue.

The ruling of “had no standing” really means “had no business interfering in this.”

The Good Law Project had fallen at this hurdle before, basically trying to bring cases where they have no legitimate legal basis to do so.

Mermaids were running to Mummy (Charity Commission) saying “LGBA are big meanies, make them stop.”

The ruling is “butt out, you whiny narcs.”

Accurate

Delighted!

I read that the two judges couldn’t agree whether the Charities Commission should have been registered in the first place but both agreed it wasn’t Mermaids place to bring the case. Does anyone know what this could mean if someone tries to go after LGB Alliance again?

Sorry I meant couldn’t agree if the Charities Commission should have registered the charity in the first place.

Excellent summary!

Brilliant news and excellent point by PP about where the money came from.

fantastic result, shame that they had to wait for the verdict for 2 years, putting on hold such great projects as a telephone line for LGB teenagers.

Mermaids and its allies (e.g. Stonewall) - all of them well-funded - have been attacking the LGBA for years, calling it 'transphobic' because the its members don't think men can be lesbians and because the Alliance wants to protect children from gender identity indoctrination. Mermaids are sore losers; let's hope their appeal is rejected.