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]
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.”[^2]
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]
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]
[^1]: Mermaids v Charity Commission judgment [^2]: LGB Alliance on X — Statement on conversion practices legislation [^3]: Stéphanie Jane on Bluesky — LGB Alliance statement on conversion practices ban [^4]: IBTimes UK — King Charles Calls Conversion Therapy ‘Abusive’ as UK Finally Moves to Ban It