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Is it a bad thing that LGB Alliance are a charity?
Well, it gives them tax relief, which I don't especially care about, access to grant funding...and they might hoodwink some decent funders...but it's the air of respectability that grates with me.
If you think the Charity 1/
Well, it gives them tax relief, which I don't especially care about, access to grant funding...and they might hoodwink some decent funders...but it's the air of respectability that grates with me.
If you think the Charity 1/
Commission will listen to complaints, I wouldn't hold your breath...40,000 objections and them admitting to finding evidence of denigrating trans people was not enough for them to not register LGB Alliance... the bar is set incredibly low. 2/
So who do the CC investigate...usually financial wrongdoing or anything embarrassing to the charity sector which hits the media. They are underfunded and reactionary ime. 3/
So what about greater transparency? Well you'll find out how much income.& Expenditure but if they registered as a CIO there won't be notes to the accounts which is where some of the more I retesting data is. 4/
My greatest hope is that the likes of Civil Society media and other charity specific press won't like the stain that comes with vocal minority-hostile Charities....but then Filia has had some really awful podcasts and simply by playing the game and not publicising their 5/
Nature on their accounts they seem to get away with it.
Does it matter? I don't know. Their boldness is rather a symptom and not a cause of the hostile environment in the UK for trans people and nibbling at the edges of body autonomy and the wider LGBT community. 6/
Does it matter? I don't know. Their boldness is rather a symptom and not a cause of the hostile environment in the UK for trans people and nibbling at the edges of body autonomy and the wider LGBT community. 6/
I think objecting is inevitable, but it will take a lot of tenacity to show the general public how wrong the focus of charities like Filia and LGB Alliance is. They are largely run by older, white, middle classed women... maybe it will take society valuing them as they should 7/
Be for the disenfranchised to stop lashing out at those they perceive and easy target.
It's such a waste of effort...we could, should work together on social issues, not have to protect ourselves from women and trans hostile lgb people when we are all undoubtedly 8/
It's such a waste of effort...we could, should work together on social issues, not have to protect ourselves from women and trans hostile lgb people when we are all undoubtedly 8/
Wronged in some way or other.
Soliloquy done. Peace.
Soliloquy done. Peace.
