Trans charity Mermaids, alongside LGBT+ Consortium, Gendered Intelligence, LGBT Foundation, Trans Actual and Good Law Project, is appealing the decision by the Charity Commission to award LGB Alliance charitable status as reported here.
To be registered as a charity, an organisation must be established exclusively for charitable purposes, as recognised in law, and it must pursue them in a way which gives rise to tangible benefits that outweigh any associated harms. LGB Alliance told the Charity Commission that its purposes were the promotion of equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people and the protection of human rights.
Yet in a speech on March 9, 2020, LGB Alliance director Bev Jackson was clear that their real goal had little.