The LGB Alliance

In the midst of the recent J.K. Rowling controversy, a CopyrightBro correspondent stumbled across an interesting Twitter account, @AllianceLGB. After reading through some of their tweets and checking out their website, it’s clear that these folks are providing an important voice; they’re courageous enough to vocalize the feelings that cancel culture prohibits many in the LGB community from feeling free to express.

The LGB Alliance is a nonpartisan British nonprofit organization whose goal is to “advance the interests of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals at a time when we are under threat from concerted attempts to introduce confusion between biological sex and the notion of gender.“ This confusion sewn by aggressive trans rights advocates is to the direct detriment of people who experience same-sex attraction, who rightly believe that being associated and conflated with the transgender/transsexual/gender non-binary groups has a negative impact on the forward progress being made to advance LGB acceptance, particularly in less-progressive environments. The LGB Alliance is also working to “protect children and young people from being taught unscientific gender doctrines”, as well as asserting the scientific reality of the two biological sexes, while recognizing “that gender is a social construct which is used to impose often harmful and outdated stereotypes.”

The beliefs championed by the LGB Alliance are beliefs that CopyrightBro is proud to endorse, as we also believe that more dialogue is needed to establish a public understanding of the differences between folks who are same sex attracted and those with varying gender identities, and that increased awareness will be to the benefit of both groups. In fact, on CopyrightBro, you’ll notice that we rarely (if ever) use the “LGBT” acronym; instead, we opt for “LGB” when referring to issues that are specific to sexual orientation, and in rare cases where it does make sense to couple issues relating to sexual orientation with those that relate to gender identity, we use “LGB&T”, which invokes an ampersand to reiterate the important distinction between the two groups.

Everyone deserves equal rights and to be treated with dignity, but that doesn’t mean that unrelated groups need to be conflated, especially when such relationships aren’t always symbiotic. If you’d like to learn more about the LGB Alliance and the work they do to support equal rights through reason and common-sense solutions that are truly respectful of and fair to all groups, you can visit their website for more information or to make a donation in support of their mission.