Allison Bailey vs Stonewall

Allison Bailey LGB Alliance#IStandWithAllison @ReSistersUnited

Since speaking at a Womans Place UK meeting and setting up the LGB Alliance, barrister Allison Bailey has come under increasing scrutiny.

Depressingly, and unsurprisingly her passion for the rights of women and lesbians has been declared ‘transphobic’. To raise questions about men in womens prisons, sex self identified crime stats, and ‘female penises’ is ‘wrong think’. And no- this is not the response of some fringe extremists- this is what extremism looks like when it is embedded in mainstream culture; when it is propagated by NGOs and powered by state funding.

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I am a Lesbian and I Protested Pride. Here’s why…

By SS of ReSisters United UK and Ireland

Lesbians don't have penises

Two years ago, only my closest friends knew I was a lesbian. Last week I was at Lancaster Pride with a megaphone and some friends, loudly protesting lesbophobia in the LGBT community with several dozen teenagers staging a counter protest at us. How did I get here?
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‘Stonewall is Anti-Lesbian’ – protest

by Jo Bartosch, freelance journalist campaigning for the rights of women and girls

Stonewall protest“Hello Stonewall! We are lesbians, the old-fashioned type that don’t have penises!”

shouts protestor Dr Julia Long. Others in the group laugh in agreement, before continuing to chat and hand out leaflets outside the QEII Centre in central Westminster.

Organised by women’s groups, including Resisters and the Lesbian Rights Alliance, the ‘Stonewall is Anti-Lesbian’ protest fell on 26th April, Lesbian Day of Visibility. The aim was to bring attention to what the protestors see as the betrayal of lesbians by the UK’s biggest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) advocacy group, Stonewall. Continue reading