Diversity champions

two subscriptions, one for its staff in England and one for staff in Wales. A separate FOI request to the Scottish government shows that it paid £9,144 to the charity in 2019, including £7,200 for membership, the newspaper reported.

Organisations learn about inclusion from the programme and are encouraged to allow trans people to choose which lavatories and changing rooms to use.

Simon Fanshawe, one of the charity’s founders, left the organisation last year, claiming its transgender policy risked undermining “women’s sex-based rights and protections”, and a teenage girl, supported by the Safe Schools Alliance UK, has applied for a judicial review of the CPS’s membership of the scheme.

A letter sent last year to The Sunday Times, co-signed by Mr Fanshawe, said: “Last October a group of LGB rights supporters asked Stonewall to ‘commit to fostering an atmosphere of respectful debate rather than demonising as transphobic those who wish to discuss, or dissent from, Stonewall’s transgender policies’. Since then, Stonewall has refused repeated requests to enter into any such dialogue.

“The government continues to treat Stonewall as if it represented the views of progressive thinking in general, and specifically LGB opinion. It does not.

“We believe it has made mistakes in its approach that undermine women’s sex-based rights and protections. The most worrying aspect of this is that all primary-school children are now challenged to review their ‘gender identity’ and decide that they may be the opposite sex if they do not embrace outdated gender stereotypes.”

Many organisations mention that they are Stonewall diversity champions but not that they have paid a subscription fee for the title.

Once the UK's leading campaigning organisation for gay rights, Stonewall has transformed itself into an organisation consumed by trans ideology. And we're paying for it, apparently, to spread its regressive misogynist message.

And why is a statutory body like the CPS giving financial support to an organisation campaigning for the law to enter the realms of fantasy by allowing men to become women simply by saying so?