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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Suzanne Moore on the Allison Bailey case

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Mumsnut · 26/04/2022 15:51

An excerpt ..

It cannot have been easy to be a black woman of Jamaican heritage in the late 1980s, living in Oxford and realising you were a lesbian. It must have been desperately lonely. Section 28, which was implemented in 1988, left gay teenagers with little support.
It cannot be easy, after a lifetime of supporting radical causes and becoming a criminal barrister, to find that at your workplace there are complaints about you orchestrated by a group set up originally to protect gay rights: Stonewall.
It cannot be easy to disclose as an adult the sexual abuse that happened to you as a nine-year-old. That you were seen as easy prey, the daughter of a single parent, and were drugged and sexually assaulted many times or that the man who was convicted for these crimes has now been released from prison.
All of these are just episodes in the life of Allison Bailey, a formidable barrister who is suing both Stonewall and her chambers, Garden Court ...We watch agog. Bailey, like any other woman, gay or straight, can think what the hell she likes. Is she really your enemy, Stonewall? Seriously, who do you represent now?

www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/04/26/stonewall-doesnt-represent-woman-like-allison-bailey/

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BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 26/04/2022 15:59

The excerpt is brilliant

stonewall are fucked

FannyCann · 26/04/2022 16:14

We watch agog. Bailey, like any other woman, gay or straight, can think what the hell she likes. Is she really your enemy, Stonewall? Seriously, who do you represent now?

I'm agog. Seriously Stonewall??

IcakethereforeIam · 26/04/2022 16:20

I hope Stonewall don't win, I'm hopelessly biased so I won't trust my judgement on what I know of the case. If they do win, it should be a pretty pyrrhic victory for them.

Alison is amazing, I wish all the best to her. Blue skies all the way!

IcakethereforeIam · 26/04/2022 16:22

Feck, you'd think I could spell her name right!

Sorry, Allison.

SpindleInTheWind · 26/04/2022 18:11

It's hard to believe Stonewall has sunk to these hideous depths. But the evidence suggests that it has, and it is about to be exposed to the light of day.

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