Allison Bailey won her latest case. A piece I wrote in 2022 about her..

A new piece will be up later but I just wanted to remind you who Allison Bailey is. So am re-upping this She won her latest case. You cannot withdraw goods and services from someone for believing that biology is real. I know it’s quite mad that a vet , a vet who sure deals with males and female mammals does this .

Here are the details:

https://allisonbailey.co.uk/updates/allison-bailey-wins-first-ever-gender-critical-judgment-in-the-supply-of-goods-and-services/

Why does this woman keep fighting? I guess she always has been. Warrior.

It cannot have been easy to be a black woman of Jamaican heritage in the late 1980s, living in Oxford and realising you were a lesbian. It must have been desperately lonely. Section 28, which was implemented in 1988, left gay teenagers with little support

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Allison marching at San Francisco Pride 1991

It cannot be easy, after a lifetime of supporting radical causes and becoming a criminal barrister, to find that at your workplace there are complaints about you orchestrated by a group set up originally to protect gay rights: Stonewall.

It cannot be easy to disclose as an adult the sexual abuse that happened to you as a nine-year-old. That you were seen as easy prey, the daughter of a single parent, and were drugged and sexually assaulted many times or that the man who was convicted for these crimes has now been released from prison.

All of these are just episodes in the life of Allison Bailey, a formidable barrister who is suing both Stonewall and her chambers, Garden Court (a member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme) for their treatment of her. Last October it was agreed that Bailey could pursue her claim against her employer and Stonewall for direct discrimination against her gender critical beliefs, as well as indirect victimisation. The case is due to start tomorrow. 

So what did Bailey do so wrong that has caused Stonewall to complain to her employers? She has done “wrongthink”. She will not swallow the dogma. She believes that biological sex is immutable and that conflating sex with the made up notion of “gender identity” will leave women with no legally enforceable boundaries against men. She does not think womanhood is just a feeling in one’s head. She was not assaulted as a child because of “feelings in her head”. She does not think men can become women because of these feelings. She is concerned, above all, with male violence. 

I agree with her, and many of us do. Many women I know who are gender critical are gay or have gay kids. We don’t need lectures on homophobia. Bailey is hugely impressive and yet this woman who has lived a life of exemplary radicalism has been hounded. 

Bailey is a lesbian because she is same-sex attracted, not same-gender attracted, a notion that the handmaidens of Stonewall are keen to deconstruct. For whose benefit? Lesbians are now to get over their preferences and sleep with men who identify as lesbians. Welcome to the new oppression, remarkably like the old oppression.

Stonewall wrote to her chambers complaining about Bailey’s views. She was a founder of the LGB Alliance, posited as an alternative to Stonewall. Surely gay people have the right to organise politically as they see fit. Some gay people ally themselves to the trans cause, and some don’t. Sexual orientation and gender identity are separate issues. 

Yet this is now heresy. There are no arguments, only mantras. “Trans women are women” etc. Bailey does not want same-sex attraction wiped out, she is a proud lesbian. Her views are protected in law since the Maya Forstater case. 

The very idea that Stonewall can interfere like this is monstrous, basically asking her chambers to sack her because she will not go along with their misogyny. 

People are indeed becoming “woke”, not in the Stonewall sense but in finally seeing what is happening.

Bailey embodies everything that identity politics holds dear: a black lesbian who spent years living in San Francisco at the centre of gay and radical left activism during the Aids epidemic. “I knew that being openly and proudly lesbian was an act of self-preservation as it was one of defiance and activism.” She knew it because she lived it. During the ACT-UP days, we wore badges saying “Silence =  Death”. I remember those times and that generation of gay men who were wiped out.

After the assault on Rodney King in 1991 and the subsequent acquittal of the police officers who beat him, Bailey took to the streets to protest peacefully. She was arrested and sent to Santa Rita Women’s Jail. It is hardly surprising that she  welcomed the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Her case is extremely important because the house of cards that Stonewall has built is beginning to topple. The more light that is shone onto the way they operate, the worse this once noble organisation looks. 

Any ideology that cannot be questioned is dangerous and yet that is how Stonewall have infiltrated so many of our institutions.

In picking on Bailey they have found a woman who has fought her entire life. Is this really a good look, Stonewall? Trying to destroy a black lesbian? 

We watch agog. Bailey, like any other woman, gay or straight, can think what the hell she likes. Is she really your enemy, Stonewall? Seriously, who do you represent now? 

I know whose side I am on. #IStandWithAllisonBailey