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Gender-critical gay rights groups unite against trans lobby

Newly formed LGB International says gay people are at risk of losing hard-won rights

 

Gender-critical gay rights groups are forming a global alliance to challenge transgender advocates.

On Saturday, the LGB Alliance relaunched as LGB International to declare its “independence from the LGBTQIA+ establishment” and to distance itself from the “legacy gay organisations which now focus entirely on transgender issues”.

The LGB Alliance was started in 2019 following a fallout and factionalism at Stonewall, Europe’s biggest LGBT rights organisation, after it was accused of promoting a “trans agenda” at the expense of gay and lesbian rights.

At the time, the LGB Alliance, which is made up of gender-critical lesbian, gay and bisexuals, said the point of forming a new organisation was to “counteract the confusion between sex and gender which is now widespread in the public sector and elsewhere”.

Speaking of the group’s relaunch, Frederick Schminke, the chairman of LGB International, which does not include transgender organisations, said: “We are launching this because the organisations that once represented gay people are now entirely devoted to ‘gender identity ideology’.

“We risk losing our hard-won rights, and as public support plummets, traditional LGBTQ+ organisations have barricaded themselves up against all reason, fostering an atmosphere where no dissenting views are tolerated.”

The launch of the new global organisation comes amid mounting friction between some LGB groups and the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexal, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), which has been increasingly vocal in its support of trans issues in recent years.

Mr Schminke added that ILGA “no longer speaks for us”.

LGB International said it had member organisations in 18 countries, including Australia, Bulgaria, Taiwan and the US, and that the groups were inspired by the creation of LGB Alliance six years ago.

The group said it wanted to raise awareness of the 64 countries where homosexuality was still illegal, places where same-sex partnerships were not recognised in law and cases in which it believed that “gender identity ideology is undermining same-sex rights”.

It also wants “to fight the way that heterosexual men are defining themselves as lesbians and heterosexual women as gay men and demanding access to our spaces and bodies”.

‘Peddling victimhood’

Bev Jackson, the co-founder of LGB Alliance, added: “Gay men, lesbians and bisexuals are sick of seeing our movement, their language, and their rights stripped away. Organisations like ILGA that once championed LGB people now peddle victimhood. Meanwhile, LGB has been replaced by meaningless jumbles of letters like “SOGIESC” [sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics].”

Responding to the launch of the new organisation, a spokesman for the Beaumont Society, the largest and longest-established transgender support group in the UK, said: “The emergence of yet more LGB isolationist and similar ‘sex-based’ advocacy groups such as this, represent the continuing efforts of well-funded groups with their own agenda to divide the LGBTQIA+ family, and this is now spreading beyond the USA and UK.

“This is a retrogressive step as it ignores the fact that all sections of the family intersect each other and that the history of
the fight for rights for all sections depended on the actions of all working in harmony.”

The row comes after the UK Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, rather than gender identity. The ruling has far-reaching implications for single-sex spaces and services.

Last week, the equalities watchdog submitted its formal guidance about how institutions should respond to the landmark ruling.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has handed the guidance to Bridget Phillipson, who, as well as being Education Secretary, is also minister for women and equalities, and she must decide whether to accept the recommendations of the watchdog.

Its interim advice, released in April, included guidance which said that trans women should not be permitted to use women’s facilities, and that schools must provide single-sex toilets for boys and girls over the age of eight.

The row also comes amid a number of high-profile cases in which lesbian and gay people with gender-critical beliefs have faced backlash for their views.

In March it was reported that police were forced to apologise over an investigation they mounted into a Newcastle United fan banned by the football club after expressing her gender-critical views on social media.

Northumbria Police told Linzi Smith that crucial elements of their investigation into claims she had committed a hate crime were not acceptable.

Ms Smith, who is gay and promotes lesbian, bisexual and women’s rights, was accused of being transphobic by a complainant who told the football club that trans people would not feel safe sitting near her.

In May it emerged that a gay volunteer was banned from a railway group after expressing his gender-critical views on email and social media.

Matthew Toomer, 48, was thrown out of West Midlands Railway’s (WMR) adopt a station scheme after he privately contacted company bosses to express concern about its “Progress Pride” train.

In response, he was summoned to a meeting and told that his views “do not align with [WMR’s] values and mission”. He was banned from the Redditch station volunteer group.

He spoke out, saying: “The Progress Pride flag has become associated with particular ideological stances – particularly around gender – which not everyone, including many within the LGB community, fully endorse.”

In response to the LGB International launch, a spokesperson for ILGA-Europe said: “ILGA is a global family of thousands of independent organisations – more than 700 in our region alone – working together to advance the rights of all LGBTI people.

“Our movement is built on a simple truth: the freedoms we share, such as the rights to private and family life, bodily autonomy, freedom from discrimination, and self-determination, are strongest when we defend them collectively. None of us will be free until all of us are free.

“As an organisation working for almost 30 years to advance, protect and defend human rights, ensuring everyone’s rights – including those of women, migrants, racialised groups, and others – are upheld has always been strong and a fundamental principle.

“Building coalitions that reflect the diversity of our communities are the cornerstones of real progression. Division only weakens the advancements we have already made, while collaboration across groups with different needs is the path to lasting change for all, not just for some.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9c8b2057c4a6d15a


 

 


Wednesday, September 17, 2025

 

Detour


I took a long time getting here,

much of it wasted on wrong turns,
back roads riddled by ruts.
I had adventures
I never would have known
if I proceeded as the crow flies.
Super highways are so sure
of where they are going:
they arrive too soon.

A straight line isn’t always
the shortest distance
between two people.
Sometimes I act as though
I’m heading somewhere else
while, imperceptibly,
I narrow the gap between you and me.
I’m not sure I’ll ever
know the right way, but I don’t mind
getting lost now and then.
Maps don’t know everything.

Ruth Feldman

(The Ambitions of Ghosts)


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We’re too dysfunctional to stop small boats, admits French police chief

Force is ill-equipped to deal with ‘violence’ from migrants and spends British money on wrong equipment

France’s efforts to stop the migrant boats are dysfunctional in the face of extreme violence orchestrated by people-smuggling gangs, a policing chief has admitted.

Marc Alegre, who represents officers in Calais and Dunkirk, said efforts by police and gendarmes were disjointed, plagued by a lack of training, faced shortages of recruits and spent British money on the wrong type of equipment.

He said his Unité police union was pushing for the French government to set up dedicated police units to specialise in tackling immigration and taking on the people smugglers so that they could reverse the record level of migrant small-boat crossings this year.

The admission came as 1,097 migrants crossed the Channel on Saturday in 17 boats, close to the daily record this year of 1,195 on May 31.

It takes the total past 30,000, up 36 per cent on last year’s figure at the same point and the highest number since the first arrivals in 2018.

Mr Alegre said officers’ lives were being put at risk by the unprecedented violence by migrants, who were encouraged by the people smugglers to attack officers with petrol and smoke bombs, stones and burning life jackets and to vandalise police vehicles.

The ongoing clashes between police and migrants meant police were running out of tear gas, grenades and vehicles.

“Police are pelted with stones practically every night. We’re short of cars because they’re vandalised by migrants, who the smugglers and traffickers order to throw stones at us to slow us down,” he said.

“I have colleagues who are regularly injured, who go to hospital because they’re doing this job. We use grenades and tear gas to stop the migrants, but they throw stones, smoke bombs and burning life jackets at us. All our vehicles are damaged. We’re practically out of ammunition. It’s not easy every day, every single day.

“Last year, two night-shift officers were surrounded by migrants and almost got burned to death. The migrants had set fire to the place with bottles of petrol. They were dog handlers. Two against 60. They risked their lives to prevent a boat from reaching England. Is it worth dying burned alive to let a boat pass? Would you?”

He conceded there were significant “coordination” problems between different forces policing the northern French coast, which remained too “compartmentalised”. He said that police lacked any specific “training” on how to handle the migrant crisis.

It comes after the number of migrants crossing the Channel topped 30,000 in record time. Some 1,097 migrants crossed on Saturday, the highest daily number for four months and bringing the total for 2025 to 30,100.

Reinforcements sent in the summer months and dedicated only to tackling migrant crossings were mostly not from the area so did not know it as well as local police, who continued to have a “dual mission” of fighting crime and dealing with migrants.

“That’s not good for the French taxpayer,” he said. “In my opinion, we need to create special units that would work all year round, covering the entire border from the Belgian border to Boulogne, both the police and the gendarmerie, but working only on the beaches.

“It’s currently too compartmentalised, meaning that if, for example, gendarmes between Calais and Dunkirk are attacked by migrants and find themselves surrounded, which has already happened, the gendarmes will call the police or vice versa. It would be quicker if there was direct communication.”

Mr Alegre said police sent from outside the region lacked training. “No one has been trained in France [to deal with migrants and small boat departures]. It’s all on-the-job experience. [Local police] know the beaches, we know the migrants from working there every day, and we know how to deal with them,” he said.

“But when you come from Lyon or Paris and you come to work on the beach, it’s not the same job. When you work in a housing project, it’s not the same way of working as on the beach.”

He said there were also recruitment problems. “At the police academy, where people can choose their police station in France, they know that if they go to Calais or Dunkirk, they’ll work twice as hard as in other places,” he said.

“We have to motivate them because they have to do the normal work of the police, but on top of that, they have to guard the borders. That’s twice as much work for them, with more risks and more work, but for nothing extra.”

He said that British funds were not always spent in the most effective manner. “Regarding the resources bought with British funds, often we don’t ask the police officers who are on the ground for the equipment they really need,” he said.

“For example, we got some 4x4 vehicles that can go on the beach. That’s good, but my colleagues would have preferred pick-up trucks because when we discover a boat, we have to put it somewhere, and it doesn’t fit in the boot of a seven-seater. But a boat with an engine can be put in the back of a pick-up truck and driven away.”

He believed the new one in, one out deal with the UK could act as a deterrent provided those deported from the UK were not sent to the northern French coast.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8e9b488cf633dd11

 

 

 


 

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