lling on the EHRC to quit the scheme.
Sex Matters campaigns for clarity about sex in law and policy. It argues that membership of the Stonewall Scheme conflicts with public service independence, and in particular with the EHRC’s mandate to protect everybody’s rights.
Perhaps this will encourage other institutions to question why on earth they should be paying money to a campaigning trans organisation that hands out dodgy advice.
Organisations that join the scheme pay Stonewall an annual fee and allow it to vet their internal policies, such as those about who can use toilets and changing facilities, and what language to use when talking about men and women. Scheme members are encouraged to promote “gender self-identification”, to train all staff to be “allies”, and to take steps such as encouraging people to announce their pronouns in meetings, and to wear rainbow lanyards….
The news of EHRC leaving the Stonewall scheme comes in the same week as Essex University released the “Reindorf Review” investigation into the no-platforming of two feminist academics.
Barrister Akua Reindorf found that the university had adopted policies which reflect “the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is”, and created a “culture of fear”. A spokeswoman from Stonewall defended their policies as being “based on guidance provided by the Equality and Human Rights Commission“.
Well that link's now been broken. The two organisations are no longer fighting the same battle.
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