Allison Bailey twitter comment (from OP):
"I ask @ tinastowell @ ChtyCommission @ borisjohnson
not to give in to the trans bullies. They are an intolerant bunch who imagine that they can dictate who all LGB people must be in alliance with. It cannot be hateful for LGB people to seek to organise around sexual orientation.
It‘s not hateful to protect women’s & LGB people’s existing legal rights from notions of gender identity.
It’s not hateful to be curious about the exponential rise in girls reporting gender dysphoria, especially as many turn out to be lesbian or bisexual & not trans.
It’s not hateful to demand that children be allowed to grow into sexual, emotional & physical maturity, free from unscientific notions that they have been born in the wrong body & must modify themselves physically to live happy lives as stereotypically feminine or masculine.
LGB people do not need to be pro trans, although many of us are, these things cannot be dictated.
Contrary to the banners: Yes, there is a debate & no, no one can tell LGB people who we are to “Get with.”
AllianceLGB has lifted the lid on the vicious misogyny & homophobia that has been allowed to fester within the LGBT movement, as the T runs amuck.
stonewalluk had no mandate to declare that homosexuality was now same-gender attraction & not same-sex.
LGBA was founded by lesbians who came out of stonewalluk and the Gay Liberation Front. Women who fought all their adult lives for LGB rights. They are not the haters or the bigots.
PLEASE
Report this petition as misleading & hateful
Donate to LGBA"
twitter.com/BluskyeAllison/status/1244332324671688712
WPUK Speech by Allison Bailey
A Woman's Place is at the lectern (Oxford, 25th October 2019)
transcript (sound quality is poor):
"Allison Bailey is a criminal defence barrister at Garden Court Chambers, London. She has nearly 20 years experience defending in cases of serious violence and complex organised crime. Allison has always supported the rights of gender-reassigned persons to live full lives, free from discrimination. However, she believes that in matters of public policy and law, including safeguarding and statistical gathering and analysis, biological reality must always come before gender identity. (continues)
As a 17-year old I came out as a lesbian in this town.
It was the era of s.28 of the Local Government Act 1988, when a craven tory government sought to deprive all support and guidance to young lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
I decided that I needed to go further afield if I was going to live my authentic life. At 17 I had a sense of the dramatic. Rather than bomb up the M40 to London, I decided that I needed to go to San Francisco to be with my people, and that is where I went and lived for 5 years. It was the early 1990s. It was the height of the AIDS epidemic. I lived on the Castro. We formed lasting bonds and allyship with our gay and transexual brothers and sisters who were dealing with that dreadful epidemic.
Those two moments in history have shaped and informed my life and they have cemented my commitment to the lesbian, gay and bisexual community, and — and it’s not an add-on, it’s sincere, my allyship with transsexual and transgender people, but not those who seek to erase my lived reality as a woman.
I have practised at the criminal bar for the past nearly 20 years. I specialise in criminal defence. I routinely deal with violent men and their victims. I am in no doubt that sex matters. And women matter.
I’ve recently had the privilege of joining and helping to get off the ground the newly formed the LGB Alliance. It’s an organisation that seeks to serve the interests and protect the rights of same-sex attracted people.
Contrary to what is being said online, we are emphatically not transphobic. We are not a transphobic organisation. However, we are opposed to the rank misogyny and homophobia that has found a home in too many parts of the modern trans movement. We are also opposed to the absence of all safeguarding measures that is intrinsic to the ideology of gender self-ID.
Finally, we are opposed to what we regard as an extremist trans agenda being advanced in a climate of deliberate fear and intimidation from all quarters, but that is specifically targeted at women, viciously, and especially viciously at women of colour." (continues)
womansplaceuk.org/2019/10/31/freedom-of-speech-allison-bailey-introduces-a-womans-place-is-at-the-lectern/