Introductn The missn of the Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Queer (LGBTQ+) Alliance Fund is to foster charable givg support of novative programs and iativ that benef the LGBTQ+ muny Southern Arizona. Our donors, board and staff envisn a diverse and rg muny where philanthropy meets the needs of…
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MAYOR’S OFFICE OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUTNG AFFAIRS
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The anisatn LGB Alliance was found to “prevent the dissematn of the lie of genr inty”, a urt was told on Wednday, durg a hearg over whether the Chary Commissn was right to grant the body charable Kate Harris told a hearg that a surge anti-lbian discrimatn was another motivatn for the creatn of the General Regulatory Chamber is nsirg a challenge by the transgenr children’s chary Mermaids to the Chary Commissn’s cisn to award charable stat to LGB Alliance last hearg examed whether the fence of trans rights n lead to nflicts wh women’s rights or the rights of lbian, gay and bisexual people. Michael Gibbon, KC for Mermaids, on Wednday qutned the two -founrs of LGB Alliance, Bev Jackson and Harris, both of whom are lbians, over whether the anisatn was primarily foced on an anti-trans polil and lobbyg agenda or whether was created to unrtake charable activi support of lbian, gay and bisexual about the anisatn’s creatn, Jackson said anisers were part motivated by a change the fn of homosexualy adopted by Stonewall and other leadg LGBT groups around 2015 om same-sex attractn to same-genr said the founrs wanted to brg together “other LGBT people who agreed wh our view that homosexualy was beg refed a way that we found offensive” said lbians had found the refn particularly challengg, wh some feelg that they were no longer ee to exprs same-sex attractn; she poted to the ejectn of lbian activists om a pri march for assertg same-sex rather than same-genr hearg spent some time addrsg the ncept of genr. I don’t have a genr inty, and I object to beg told that I do, ” Jackson qutned Jackson on the “provotive and flammatory” language ed tweets by associat of the chary, cludg e of the hashtags #endgaynversn and #transgthegayaway – referrg to LGB Alliance’s belief that gay children were beg fluenced by msagg on YouTube and social media to thkg that they were trans and subsequently seekg treatment.
“Anti-lbian prejudice and fear is leadg many teens, pecially lbians, to believe that they have ‘genr inty’ issu when they are fact grapplg wh their emergg lbian/gay sexual orientatn, ” Jackson said her wns said the anisatn believed the e of puberty blockers by genr inty velopment servic (GIDS) for children “who might otherwise grow up to bee gay adults” was “a huge medil sndal the makg” past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnCo-founr Harris scribed genr inty as “a lie” durg a speech given at the lnch of LGB Alliance Stland 2020, the urt heard, and dismissed as “psdo-science”. She said she had “a personal tert” the qutn of how discsn of genr inty uld impact children, scribg how she was “nsired boyish by others” as a child and placed the boys’ groups for sport at said she was “100% sure” that if she had been tght sex tn lsons that everyone has a genr inty that uld differ om the sex assigned at birth she would have asked to be “fast-tracked on to puberty blockers, sisted on hormone treatment and no doubt end up havg surgery”, rather than “growg up to bee a happy lbian” evince given earlier the week Dr Belda Bell, chair of the tste of Mermaids, said was implsible to suggt that gay children would embark on the difficult procs of transng rponse to homophobia, and noted that the vast majory of trans adults are not straight, so the procs of transn uld not accurately be scribed as gay nversn.