Transgender lobby group Mermaids has lost a legal challenge to strip the gay rights organisation LGB Alliance of its charity status.
Mermaids, which promotes transgenderism in gender-dysphoric children, had appealed against the decision of the Charity Commission to grant LGB Alliance charitable status in 2021.
On Tuesday, it was announced that Mermaids had lost what is believed to have been the first case of its kind in the UK.
Mermaids had backing from lobby groups such as Good Law Project, the LGBT+ Consortium, LGBT Foundation, Gendered Intelligence and TransActual.
“We are delighted that the tribunal found in our favour and that Mermaids and the LGBT Consortium have failed in their bid to remove our charitable status,” wrote LGB Alliance on Twitter….