Sunlight pours in

...and the undead at Stonewall don't like it

Earlier in the week, I suggested that Stonewall had hidden their list of ‘diversity champions’ from public view because someone big had dropped off the list. Well, you don’t get much bigger than The Equality and Human Rights Commission!

Huge congratulations to Maya Forstater and Sex Matters.

Maya Forstater @MForstater

EHRC cuts ties with Stonewall. Read all about it @SexMattersOrg

sex-matters.orgEHRC Chairwoman writes to Sex Matters: we have left Stonewall — Sex MattersThis week we received welcome news in a letter from Baroness Kishwer Falkner. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is no longer part of the controversial Stonewall Diversity Champions Scheme. She said that the Commission seeks to ensure that all staff enjoy “acceptance without exception”. We res…

Adding to their woes, Mathew Parris broke ranks yesterday in The Times, Mary Harrington savaged them in The Mail and The Essex University story continues to broil. Much unwelcome scrutiny of an organisation that once tried to stifle free speech with the absurd, insulting diktat “No debate”.

True to form, Stonewall responded it to it all by tweeting like a teenager in ‘Mean Girls’.

This reply was particularly delicious for me.

Mo' @mocent0

@stonewalluk @thetimes @thesundaytimes @MailOnline “And now we move on to The Times of England…”

As Simon Edge put it “If the EHRC have decided they cannot be Stonewall Diversity champions, doesn't it raise the question of whether any organisation - particularly publicly funded bodies and government departments - should be? Every organisation that takes its orders from Stonewall will ultimately suffer reputational damage, because those orders are ridiculous. Police Sccotland is a Diversity Champion. It’s now being dubbed - with justification - the McStasi”.

Lesbian Ani Bee said “Shine a light on your own homophobia. This is the consequence of gays and lesbians being told not to call ourselves homosexual, not to mention same-sex attraction and called genitally obsessed bigots by transitioning heterosexuals and their Queer allies. This is your mess. Own it.”

Debbie Hayton, who is trans, replied directly to their Mean Girls tweet with this “It all went wrong for transsexual people when you showed up in 2014. We had what we needed including Equality Act & health care. You did nothing to help us secure those rights. Nothing. You then appropriated *our* rights in *your* ludicrous campaign to queer society. Go away!”

Bessie Braddock @BraddockBessie

Hey @stonewalluk, u ok hun? U ok now that the @EHRC has parted ways with you? U ok now that your Machiavellian manoeuvres are being exposed in the mainstream press? Looks as though throwing gay people under the bus wasn't a price worth paying after all, hey? #StonewallOut

We’ll be doing a special Mess We’re In today at 4pm to talk about the situation! Please join us!