LGB Alliance
The LGB Alliance is a fake civil rights organization. It pretends to exist to advocate for the rights of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) people, but it mostly focuses on anti-transgender activism. It has chapters in several countries, which all put on similar pretense.
The pro-LGBTQ+ Mermaids charity challenged the Charity Commission’s decision to register the LGB Alliance as a charity. Although they lost for lack of standing, some of the details highlighted are illuminating as to the real purpose of this organization.[1]
Evidence Misuse
The LGB Alliance exemplifies multiple patterns of evidence misuse identified by Ojeda et al. (2026) in their peer-reviewed analysis.[2] In particular:
- Pitfall 2: Excluding relevant expertise — The LGB Alliance claims to speak for LGB people while systematically excluding and opposing trans people with shared lived experiences. Its charitable registration controversy with Mermaids demonstrates how it uses legal mechanisms to exclude trans-affirming organizations from policy discussions.
- Pitfall 5: Deploying decontextualized claims — The organization frequently cites narrow data points (such as detransition statistics or conversion therapy debates) as if they apply broadly, while stripping them of their original context.
- Pitfall 6: Positioning disinformation as science — By adopting the name “Alliance,” the group presents itself as a legitimate civil rights organization while its primary activity is anti-trans activism, mirroring the broader pattern where “organizations with no scientific credibility adopt names evoking authority.”[2:1]
The paper’s framework of evidence misuse helps make visible how the LGB Alliance’s rhetoric of “protecting LGB rights” functions as a cover for promoting ideologically driven claims that contradict established medical and scientific consensus.
Amnesty International Anti-Rights Designation (July 2026)
In July 2026, Amnesty International UK formally listed the LGB Alliance as an “anti-rights” organization in its report A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK, which maps 117 organizations in the UK’s anti-rights ecosystem.[3] The report defines “anti-rights actors” as “formal or informal groups, individuals, private and state actors whose aim is to restrict human rights by undermining human rights protections in law and practice.” Over 60% of the mapped organizations have emerged since 2017, with the vast majority being gender-critical organizations.
The report also found that 37 of the mapped organizations spent over £144 million between 2019 and 2024, a 47% increase. Beira’s Place (JK Rowling’s sexual assault centre), For Women Scotland, ADF International, Sex Matters, and Turning Point UK were also listed.
Commentary
The LGB Alliance helped to mainstream anti-trans views in the UK in particular. Early on, it shared an address, 55 Tufton Street, Westminster, London, with several other right-wing think tanks.
For a group that’s supposed to be in favor of “LGB” rights, they spend a lot of times hating on trans people:
LGB Alliance: @AllianceLGB The medical records of thousands of young people, many of them LGB, who have taken puberty blockers are being kept secret. How can it be ethical to run a trial on more children when the data we already need exists? See our letter to Wes Streeting. 10:30 AM · Mar 3, 2025
So, their issue is that they are against running the puberty blocker’s study, because a lot of data already exists, but it’s protected by privacy laws. So, they’re demanding the violation of the privacy of a group of children who they themselves say include many people allegedly within their interest group?
Opposition to the Conversion Practices Ban (May 2026)
In May 2026, the UK Government announced plans to introduce a Draft Conversion Practices Bill banning abusive conversion practices as part of the King’s Speech — the fourth UK government to make such a pledge since 2018.[4] The LGB Alliance publicly opposed the measure, claiming that existing laws already cover assault, coercion, harassment, and safeguarding failures, and that the real purpose of the bill is to create an “affirmation-only framework regarding gender identity” that would restrict what they called “lawful therapeutic exploration.”[5]
In their statement, the LGB Alliance specifically argued that even “same-sex attracted people” should not receive new protections, asserting that the bill would leave them with “fewer options for support.” The organization’s position was widely condemned by LGBTQ+ advocates, who noted that the LGB Alliance was using the language of therapeutic concern to oppose a bill designed to protect vulnerable people — including LGB youth — from coercive and abusive practices.[4:1]
The ban has faced multiple delays across successive governments. Then-Prime Minister Theresa May first pledged a ban in 2018. Boris Johnson’s 2022 proposal controversially attempted to exclude gender identity from its scope. Rishi Sunak dropped the commitment entirely from his 2023 King’s Speech. Labour included a trans-inclusive ban in its 2024 manifesto but missed its own April 2026 deadline to publish a draft bill, drawing criticism from Stonewall and the Ban Conversion Practices Coalition.[4:2]
Ojeda, T., Pape, M., Grijseels, D.M., et al. (2026). “Misuse of evidence in sex and gender policy.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Read more ↩︎ ↩︎
Amnesty International UK — Report: A growing threat – the anti-rights movement in the UK (July 2026) ↩︎
IBTimes UK — King Charles Calls Conversion Therapy ‘Abusive’ as UK Finally Moves to Ban It (1 row) ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
LGB Alliance on X — Statement on conversion practices legislation ↩︎