Stonewall's House Is Falling Down

The LGBT+ UK campaign charity Stonewall has suffered a series of setbacks that will ultimately lead to its downfall—and not before time, according to its detractors. Why is this happening to a once-respected charity?

Stonewall began in 1989 when political activists got together to campaign against Section 28 of the Local Government Act. Its founders include Sir Ian McKellen, Lisa Power MBE, and Lord Cashman CBE.

Stonewall diversified into policy development for the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people after Labour came to power in 1997. It remains a lobbying organisation rather than a membership organisation. - Wikipedia

The charity was well respected in terms of ensuring that gay men, lesbians, and bisexual people were represented in law and were not abused because of their sexual preferences. However, that went flying out the window in 2015 following the passage of equal marriage laws. Since Stonewall had achieved its purpose as a charity, it needed a new focus. Instead of continuing to advocate for gay rights in the UK and worldwide, it turned to transgenderism as a new market to tap under CEO Ruth Hunt, who ended up resigning in 2019 amid protests over Stonewall's focus on trans issues to the exclusion of its homosexual clientele. The new CEO Nancy Kelley, who began by saying that Stonewall does not have to convert everyone to its understanding of gender, but to make people support changes that make trans lives easier, now claims that "gender critical" beliefs are akin to anti-Semitism.

In pursuit of its pro-trans agenda, Stonewall has misrepresented the Equality Act 2010 in its training materials, declaring that companies need to get ahead of the law. As a result, it has lost credibility among the top human rights organisations in the UK, including the EHRC, which has just left its Diversity Champions scheme. Bad idea, as more organisations are sure to follow.

It is against the background of this epic failure that Kelley proclaims that critics of gender identity ideology are like Nazis and should be treated as such. Its attacks on Transgender Trend and on the LGB Alliance are not helping its case, and since it's doing its best to alienate its core clientele, it now finds that it's alienating the transsexuals and dysphoria sufferers whom it now claims to represent.

Just a reminder, now that @stonewalluk is in the news. This is the organisation that *literally* campaigns for the erasure of transsexual people from the Equality Act.

Stonewall is no friend of transsexuals.#StonewallOuthttps://t.co/mRY9mE0Bkp pic.twitter.com/ZkYAfWpE3Y

— Debbie Hayton 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (@DebbieHayton) May 25, 2021

As Eric Hoffer wrote, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” 

I'm finding little to argue with here. We need to get Stonewall out of every institution, business, and school, and take an evidence-based approach to dealing with issues, not stances based purely on emotion. Stonewall's house is falling down, and it can't fall hard enough.

UPDATE: Public sector bodies are pulling out!

The House of Commons, The DVLA, the employment dispute service, ACAS, Dorset Police and The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have all withdrawn their membership.

Furthermore, the Crown Prosecution Service said it is currently reviewing whether or not to continue on the programme. - A Week in the War on Women: Monday 24th May - Sunday 30th May GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT, by JL for the Glinner Update.