Following the Cass report, activists are demanding that Stonewall’s former chief executive be removed from her lordship.
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org urging Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green to remain barred from the House of Lords because of her “deeply damaging conduct” in the trans “scandal.”
The complaint, launched on Saturday, says: “Stonewall’s careless, deceptive, and self-interested behavior… has caused untold havoc. We believe its chief executive at the time, Ruth Hunt, must take responsibility for her charity’s seriously detrimental conduct, which played a vital part in the incident now unfolding.
“It is greatly disrespectful to the people she has harmed that Hunt was awarded a knighthood and then sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, a legislator-for-life.”
The petition makes reference to Stonewall’s decision to oppose a study pack sent to institutions that warned transgender students about the potential risks of puberty blockers and the use of unknown drugs as a “medical pathway” for transition.
The petition adds: “Stonewall Scotland told its tens of thousands of followers on Twitter: ‘We, in the strongest possible terms, denounce and condemn this [research] publication. If it lands on your workstation, do the right thing: tear it.’”
Explaining how Stonewall had branded the study group as “dangerous,” the plea adds: “We then know beyond question that the opposite was true: the boxes contained sensible advice, and removing them was harmful.”
Promoting the trans tale
The Cass Review noted that treatment with puberty blockers “may alter the path of psychosexual and gender identification growth,” but in critical evaluation, it did not alter a patient’s brain dissatisfaction or gender distress. The report called for “unhurried” care of those under-25s who think they may be transgender.
The document, by Dr. Hilary Cass, a pediatric expert, found sex attention had been largely based on “remarkably poor evidence.”
Soon after the review’s release, JK Rowling criticized Stonewall for promoting the transgender tale.
According to the author, Stonewall absolutely ordered schools to destroy research packs because they believed there were dangers for puberty blockers in 2018. In 2022, Stonewall told the world that ‘research’ suggests two-year-olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries to start teaching children that there are more women than just boys and girls.”
Soon after the first same-sex couples took place, Baroness Hunt took over Stonewall in 2014. She broadened the organization’s scope of work to include transgender issues, perhaps as a result of her concern that important advances in gay and gay equality had left a void.
Following a conversation with 700 trans people, Stonewall accepted a contribution to “integrate trans-specific job” into its efforts.
In response, it promoted the idea of “gender identity” that might not be compatible with gender, including the notions that gays can have penises and homosexual men may have vulvas.
Many gay and lesbian people strongly opposed that ideology. Baroness Hunt was later accused of running “a militant trans agenda” by the writer Maureen Chadwick, creator of Bad Girls and Footballers’ Wives. She withdrew her support from the charity over its “trans women are women” campaign.
Baroness Hunt left Stonewall in February 2019 after previously serving the Equality Challenge Unit, where she provided advice on gender identity and sexual orientation.
A request for comment was not received by Baroness Hunt.
