Copy and pasted from a thread I started at the same time (which I will ask to be deleted).
Apparently they applied March last year, but were delayed due to complaints. I found the reasoning behind allowing their registration interesting.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/lgb-alliance/lgb-alliance-full-decision
One of the complaints said that:
23.The Commission received objections to registration of LGB Alliance, which are in summary, on the basis that the organisation’s purposes:
i. unlawfully discriminate against transgender people under the Equality Act 2010 (the Equality Act);
The commission found that:
26.Section 193 of the Equality Act provides an exemption from the prohibitions in that Act where benefits are restricted by reference to persons sharing a protected characteristic in pursuance of a charitable instrument, and where this is either a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim or is for the purpose of preventing or compensating for a disadvantage linked to the protected characteristic.
28.Promoting equality and human rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual people is not unlawful or contrary to public policy. A purpose of promoting the equality and human rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people is not inherently discriminatory and does not necessarily have the effect of inhibiting the rights of transgender people.
30.In support of its application for registration LGB Alliance stated that “In educating the public about human rights and equality issues relating to the LGB community, LGB Alliance’s position will be there are only two sexes and gender is a social construct, and that this perspective should form part of the discussion about these issues.”
31.Similar views were considered in the decision of the Employment Tribunal in Forstater v CGD Europe & others [footnote 12] in which the Tribunal held (subject to an appeal) that the absolutist nature of a belief which denied the right of a person with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) to be the sex to which they had transitioned was incompatible with human dignity and the fundamental rights of others. It therefore did not qualify as a belief protected by section 10 of the Equality Act.[snip]
32.The fact that a particular belief does not attract such protection does not necessarily compel the finding that the promotion of rights, or the education of the public, in accordance with such a belief cannot be charitable. The question is whether the manifestation of that belief renders the purposes non-charitable.
34.If the promotion of the rights of one group is to be pursued in a way which invariably involves the denigration of the rights of others, that purpose may not be for public benefit. However, promoting the equality and human rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people may be pursued without denigrating the rights of transgender people.