LGB Alliance, which was set up ‘to promote transphobic activity”, has created a Business Forum to fight what it calls “corruption of corporate equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programmes”.
Over the past five years, the LGB Alliance says there has been a surge of employee complaints and lawsuits related to “corrupted workplace policies”.
Simon White from the LGB Alliance Business Forum said: “We believe EDI initiatives can be a force for good, but they have been corrupted by powerful lobby groups that present the law as they’d like it to be rather than how it actually is,” said Simon White from the Business Forum.
“Denying the right of LGB workers to state who they are, and smearing them as ‘genital fetishists’ for being same-sex attracted, turns workplaces into battlegrounds in the culture war. Worst of all, the internal staff networks which should stand up for LGB people have been co-opted by extremists focused on advancing a narrow, misogynistic, and homophobic interpretation of ‘trans rights’.”
LGB Alliance has been described as anti-trans, which it denies. These schemes, said the LGB Alliance, misrepresent the law, encourage the replacement of women’s toilets with gender-neutral facilities, and compel employees’ speech via enforced pronoun usage.
Kate Barker, the LGB Alliance’s chief executive, said: “Fighting for diversity and inclusion is part of LGB people’s shared heritage, but these noble aims have been corrupted by the infiltration of ‘progressive’ lobby groups into the workplace.
“LGB Alliance Business Forum will play a crucial role in returning EDI to its founding principles, ensuring every business is a welcoming place for all staff, gay or straight, by supporting diversity of thought and rejecting divisive activist orthodoxy.”
LGB Alliance has described itself as the UK’s only registered charity “exclusively for same-sex attracted people”. It was granted charitable status in 2021.
