Scottish trans alliance

[PalmerstonWalrus]

I keep seeing references to the Scottish Trans Alliance wrt to GRA reform and self-ID. They lead the charge in Scotland and were prominent in the Maria Miller committee nonsense. But I couldn’t work out who and what they were.

They’re a charity, actually part of a bigger charity: Equality Network. Charities have to file annual accounts. Which is handy. This is their last report, filed in December for 2016-17.

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Because guess who funds the Scottish Trans Alliance? The Scottish Government. It gives 125k a year, more than £100k of which goes on salaries. Last year, the alliance spent £125,800. Equality Network gets all but about £6k of its £450k budget from the Scottish Government. It is solely dependent on SCottish Govt - it doesn’t raise money from donations or sponsors or grants. It just gets money from politicians.

What the hell is this about? Why is the Scottish Governent funding a “charity” that lobbies the Scottish Parliament for trans agenda? Why is it funding a charity that lobbies the UK Parliament about laws that don’t apply in Scotland? Trans alliance really did a number on Maria Miller’s mob (the report is full of glowing references to them.). How many MPs on that committee knew the alliance is a Scottish Government (SNP?) sock puppet? And if MPs didn’t know, how is anyone else supposed to know?

Am I being crazy/naive/both or is this a bit odd? Anyone in Scotland (I’m not) know about this?

This is the link for the website rb67 posted about

tgeu.org

I had a look at it last week and think it's worth the more legislative minded posters here reading. We need to connect all the dots to understand what we are up against.

This demands are utterly fucking batshit, I’m lost for words.

They are clearly anarchists and the irony of an anarchist group being almost entirely funded by a government is beyond batshit. They are diametrically at odds with each other’s interests ffs

Badweek it's two separate organisations. The beyond batshit one calling for all trans prisoners to be freed etc no one has clarified how it is funded.

The more mainstream pro trans org does seem to be pretty much all funded by the Scottish government, lobbies for trans rights, and appears to have given a lot of evidence to the Maria Miller committee that looked at self-Id.