LUSH epäsi rahoituksen kahdelta lesbojen avustusjärjestöltä transaktivistien takia

Lush has a fund called the Charity Pot, which it draws on to provide grants to worthy causes in three areas: animal rights, the environment and human rights.
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In July 2019, the human rights funding panel considered separate applications from two lesbian groups: the Lesbian Rights Alliance (LRA) and Mayday4Women. A whistleblower who sat on the five-strong funding panel, but who wishes to remain anonymous, said that the panel had never previously received applications from lesbian-only groups.
Both applications, she said, were “superb” and “focused on supporting young lesbians but doing it in completely different ways.”
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She added that neither application mentioned the transgender issue, and exclusively focused on supporting young lesbians. .
The funding panel unanimously approved grants of £3k each and approached the referees each had provided. Shortly after the decision was made, however, panel members received an email from the manager of the team administering the funds stating that Lush’s ethics director wanted the funding panel to reconsider the applications. It stated that the groups had positioned themselves as “anti-trans” and that a decision to fund them would be badly received by Lush staff, Lush customers and the LGBT press.
.The funding panel then met again to consider the applications and reversed its original decision to fund the groups, with only the whistleblower dissenting from the decision which she called “utterly shameful”.

She described the reversal as “a textbook example of how capitulating to bullies is the coward’s way out. Lush is alienating its core female market by refusing to stand up for women’s rights and for being too scared to support proud lesbians.”

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