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Allison Bailey vs. transgender people

Allison Bailey is a British lawyer, sex segregationist, and anti-transgender activist. Bailey co-founded the anti-trans LGB Alliance in 2019.

Background

Allison Elaine Bailey was born in 1970 in Cowley, Oxfordshire to Jamaican parents. She earned an undergraduate degree at University of Manchester and was called to the Bar of England and Wales as a barrister by Middle Temple in 2001.

2019 open letter

Bailey helped found LGB Alliance after an open letter appeared in the Times protesting the LGBT organization Stonewall. The signers claimed that Stonewall’s trans-inclusive views

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now challenged to review their “gender identity” and decide that they may be the opposite sex if they do not embrace outdated gender stereotypes.

They claimed a new trans-exclusionary organization was needed with policies based on “fact instead of fantasy.”

  • Jonathan Best, former director, Queer Up North
  • Julie Bindel, journalist and feminist campaigner
  • Gill Butler, former trustee, Stonewall
  • Beatrix Campbell, writer
  • Maureen Chadwick, TV & film writer and producer
  • Stephanie Davies-Arai, director, Transgender Trend
  • Simon Edge, former editor of Capital Gay and writer for Attitude
  • Simon Fanshawe, founder, Stonewall
  • Eileen Gallagher OBE, TV producer
  • Kath Gotts, composer
  • Claire Graham, intersex advocate
  • Jane Harris, author
  • Kate Harris, former supporter of Stonewall
  • Bev Jackson, founder, Gay Liberation Front
  • Darren Johnson, London Assembly member 2000-16
  • Jane Clare Jones, writer and philosopher
  • Ann McManus, TV and film scriptwriter
  • Ann Sinnott, former Labour councillor
  • Caroline Spry, TV and film producer
  • Kathleen Stock, philosopher
  • Helen Watts, former leader, Girlguiding UK
  • Miranda Yardley, transexual rights activist

References

September 22 2019 Letters to the Editor: Labour tax plan corrodes rule of law https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/labour-tax-plan-corrodes-rule-of-law-sbh2f09n2

 Hellen, Nicholas (28 October 2019). Lesbian barrister: my bosses bowed to transgender ‘hate mob’. The Times. [archive] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lesbian-barrister-my-bosses-bowed-to-transgender-hate-mob-shm6x09v8

Hellen, Nicholas (22 September 2019). ‘Anti-women’ trans policy may split Stonewall. The Sunday Times [archive] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-women-trans-policy-may-split-stonewall-wfv2rp5cx

Wakefield, Lily (26 October 2019). Lawyer supporting anti-trans LGB Alliance to be investigated by law firm. PinkNews [archive] https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/26/lgb-alliance-lawyer-anti-trans-law-firm-gender-critical-womans-place-uk/

Lesbian barrister investigated over transgender views. The Times. 28 October 2019. [archive] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lesbian-barrister-investigated-over-transgender-views-l32b67zgf

Gonella, Sophia (3 July 2020). Allison Bailey v Stonewall. The Student Lawyer. [archive] https://thestudentlawyer.com/2020/07/03/allison-bailey-v-stonewall/

I am suing Stonewall. Donate to my crowdfund. Allison Bailey [archive] https://allisonbailey.co.uk/

Out of court. Diversity charity in trans row. The Times [archive] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/diversity-charity-in-trans-row-n38p6xfq5

The case against Stonewall. Allison Bailey [archive] https://allisonbailey.co.uk/the-case-against-stonewall/

Barrister embroiled in trans rights row raises £60,000 to sue Stonewall despite CrowdJustice briefly taking her page down. Legal Cheek 29 June 2020. [archived] https://www.legalcheek.com/2020/06/barrister-embroiled-in-trans-rights-row-raises-60000-to-sue-stonewall-despite-crowdjustice-briefly-taking-her-page-down/

Censored or offensive? CrowdJustice trans row rumbles on. Legal Futures. 1 July 2020. [archive] https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/censored-or-offensive-crowdjustice-trans-row-rumbles-on

Barrister wins discrimination case against law firm over gender critical views. The Independent. 27 July 2022. [archive] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/allison-bailey-stonewall-gender-critical-b2104939.html

Ames, Jonathan (1 December 2021). Stonewall ‘wanted lawyer Allison Bailey punished for trans views’. The Times. [archive] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stonewall-wanted-lawyer-allison-bailey-punished-for-trans-views-tbgj83ttb

Webber, Ashleigh (26 April 2022). Philosophical belief: barrister’s tribunal claim against Stonewall begins. Personnel Today [archive] https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/allison-bailey-case-philosophical-belief-stonewall/

Faragher, Jo (27 July 2022). Barrister wins gender critical belief discrimination claim. Personnel Today [archive] https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/allison-bailey-gender-critical/

O’Thomson, Jess (27 July 2022). Bailey – a big relief for trans people but it’s not all good news. Trans Safety Network. [archive] https://transsafety.network/posts/bailey-v-gcc-analysis/

Judiciary report (PDF). Judiciary.uk 27 July 2022. [archive] (PDF)  https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bailey-judgment.pdf

Ames, Jonathan (22 September 2022). Allison Bailey’s appeal takes on Stonewall. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/allison-baileys-appeal-takes-on-stonewall-ggdc2272n

Kirkup, James (8 July 2020). Are whistleblowers being silenced at the NHS gender clinic?. The Spectator [archive] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Are-whistleblowers-being-silenced-at-the-NHS-gender-clinic

Suissa, Judith; Sullivan, Alice (10 March 2021). The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education. Journal of Philosophy of Education. Wiley. 55 (1): 55–82. doi:10.1111/1467-9752.12549.

When it comes to race and gender, oppressed people can be oppressors too | Sonia Sodha. The Observer. 14 February 2021. [archive] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/14/race-gender-oppressed-can-be-oppressors-too-kemi-badenoch

Resources

Alison Bailey (allisonbailey.co.uk)

LGB Alliance (lgballiance.org.uk)

HM Government (gov.uk)

Twitter (twitter.com)