The purpose of the Freedom of Information Act is to keep information about our relationship with public bodies that could cause reputational damage out of the public domain
The purpose of the Charities Act is to allow people to organise together for the public good.
We get to define what the public good is.
Disagreement with us is not in the public good
The purpose of the Equality Act 2010 is to support "our community".
The EHRC should not intervene to support other people's rights.
Any organisation that thinks that the Stonewall Champions Scheme is a benign force in public life and "only relates to employment practices" is kidding themselves.
Signing up for official policy capture is against the #nolanprinciples
A public inquiry is needed.
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You can quote from Bev Jackson's excellent speech at @LabWomenDec Stonewall and co see as the kind of thing that should get you ousted from your job and from the public debate
Some thoughts on Stonewall's rebrand and strategy.
Erm.... does anyone else think that the rebrand is an 'up yours' to EHRC??
They went from LGB to LGBT in 2015 .... now adding "queer, questioning and ace" (asexual .... a spectrum which includes "demisexual", which means heterosexual who experiences sexual attraction based on emotional connection with a person...)
This is likely to mean that lesbian and gay men are a minority in the LGBTQ+ movement.
The government's LGBT survey (not a representative survey, but still interesting) suggests this is already the case amongst 16-24 year olds
I am also an advocate of people sitting around talking for solving problems (what else is there?)
Orgs exist to do this - it's what justifies their overhead cost.
This is the office of CGD Europe where I used to work. You can see the Palace of Westminster from the windows
When I started talking about this it was with the naive hope that CGD might use its sunlit meeting room to host a discussion amongst development professionals about sex and gender in their orgs & policy advocacy.