Think we might see Kelley doing a few more interviews given this new story:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10225111/Stonewall-brands-lesbians-sexual-racists-raising-concerns-sex-transgender-women.html
Trans lobby group Stonewall brands lesbians 'sexual racists' for raising concerns about being pressured into having sex with transgender women who still have male genitals
For many, it was a brave and long-overdue airing of an important and distressing subject: a painstaking investigation into claims that predatory trans women have been pressuring lesbians for sex, published on the BBC News website.
But a leaked email shows that the influential trans lobby group Stonewall attempted to suppress the investigation before it had even been published – and made the extraordinary claim that debating the issues was equivalent to ‘sexual racism’.
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Yet now it has emerged that months before the article appeared Stonewall’s chief executive Nancy Kelley wrote to the editorial director of BBC News to denounce Lowbridge’s work in an apparent attempt to get her piece stopped.
In her email, Kelley suggested that the BBC article would end up being ‘transphobic’ because it represented trans women as ‘sexual predators’, which was a ‘central anti-trans argument’.
She further complained that the ‘highly toxic’ cotton ceiling issue was ‘analogous to issues like sexual racism’.
And although she acknowledged that in sexual relationships ‘consent is paramount and we all want who we want’, she added that ‘structural oppression can influence who we want’.
It is understood that it took many months of editorial discussions before the article was published on October 26.
Stonewall has appeared to confirm that changes were made to the original piece, although it remains unclear whether this was as a direct result of the leaked email, sent in September 2020.
Nor is it known whether the editorial director of BBC News at the time, Kamal Ahmed, took any action based on the specific concerns raised by Kelley. He was made redundant in February.
There are many, many questions here.
Not least who leaked the email. And why.
Interestingly...
The BBC received 4,819 complaints in the days following publication, while 5,520 messages praised its coverage.
I think Kelley has to address why she doesn't think lesbians and gay men should retain protected status on the basis of sex and how changing the definition of homosexual to homogendered isn't homophobic.
Journalists need to start asking this head on.
Changing the meaning of words is having an affect on protected groups. Why aren't organisations doing impact assessments on how changing language impacts their staff/clients/service users?
There's a lot of legal shit to unpack here, which accusing lesbians of being bigotted doesn't change the law or protect Stonewall from misleading institutions and businesses by indoctrination or a culture of fear.