Stonewall, "What have we been up to in the last year?" Their year & impact report

[R0wantrees]

twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1070357143180795904
see responses to tweet for additional things that Stonewall have done this year, not included in their summary

link to full report with introduction by Ruth Hunt (CEO)
stonewallimpact.org.uk/

Ooh, does it mention empowering men to harass and bully lesbians?

Thank goodness for the comments.

The responses below the tweet say pretty much everything I'd like to.

Stonewall. Representing... well not the LGB community for a start. Achieved gay marriage and then started working on making homosexuality a hate crime.

Became a cash cow representing the interests of heterosexual men?

So no one has jumped in to support them yet then?

Alternative Stonewall report:

1. Year when prominent gay activists started a petition to have Stonewall review their policies

1. Year when lesbians felt more unsafe and voiceless than they had for years.

1. Year when ordinary people started questioning why their employers were paying for a lobbying organisation to provide advice and training based on their their lobbying focus.

1. Year when a number of newspapers started questioning Stonewall's advisory role in schools and the potential risks to pupils.

1. Year when a number of name organisations including those from the public sector were embarrassed (and more given it is illegal for public organisations to lobby) by a Stonewall poster using their logos to link to the Stonewall GRA consultation pro-forma.

1. Year when Stonewall gave up any pretence of transparency by allowing members of its Trans advisory committee to remain anonymous. Plus appointing Aimee Challenor as Secretary to the group (on her Twitter, though not Stonewalls)

1. Year when Stonewall practiced no-debate, as an effort to silence women.

1. Year when Stonewall and other LGBT organisations happily provided advice at senior level to the public, corporate and charity sectors without worrying whether necessary safeguarding or other balance was provided.

I could go on. My best guess is that this year is the beginnning of the end for Stonewall in its role as constructive public sector partner. In the same way as they colonised Government and commercial organisations, they have been colonised by trans activists. Ultimately the lobbying focus will prove too niche and uncomfortable for Stonewall to remain an uncontroversial go-to organisation.

Pfft. Well from down under it looks like they've made some black and white with a dash of red for contrast posters promoting homophobia. Then doubled down and sold T'shirts to match. Brilliant!

Of course, honourable mention should go to the (not sketchy at all) people they've wisely selected to help them promote their brand (dogma).

Love the alternative names- Brickwall and Stonedeaf, both much more appropriate.

Loved this one

STONEDEAF. EXCEPT TO TRANS CASH. KER-CHING!

hah. not a single positive comment

shit Ruth, I think the public are onto you

it turns out that systematically undermining one of the groups you claim to campaign for will piss people off mightily and also make them think you're a massive fucking hypocrite

TimeLady
That was my favourite comment too

Gobsmacked at the comments on it. Just wow I didn’t expect that.

Well the year isn’t quite out yet.

There’s still time for Stonewall to show some moral leadership and make very clear their support for women, freedom of speech and breaking down gender stereotyping...

Also I hadn’t really clocked their amazingly narcissistic and boundary-eroding corporate strapline: ‘acceptance without exception’.

In plain sight.

Nobody can demand or force themselves or their beliefs to be ‘accepted’ by any another person.
Acceptance is only ever voluntarily given.
Forced ‘acceptance’ isn't actually acceptance at all.

755 teachers is pretty shit reach, given the average high school has 100 teachers.