From Gay Liberation Pioneer to Gender Critical Warrior: Bev Jackson's 50-Year Fight (#29)
Beyond Gender
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What drives someone who helped found the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 to co-found LGB Alliance nearly 50 years later? Bev Jackson's journey spans from being the only woman at GLF's first meeting (19 gay men and her) to secretly gathering 70 people in 2019 because gay rights organizations had been "taken over by cuckoos." In this powerful episode, Jackson explains why she believes transphobia is "the opposite of homophobia," reveals how Stonewall's Ruth Hunt betrayed lesbians by adding the T after promising not to, and recounts the courtroom victory when Mermaids spectacularly failed to strip LGB Alliance of charitable status. From her pivotal moment at age 11—standing up as the only Jewish student in an antisemitic classroom—to watching organizations meant to protect gay youth become their "biggest danger," Jackson's story illuminates how the movement she helped birth got hijacked. Her warning: young lesbians on dating apps now find "20, 30, 40 percent are men calling themselves women."
About Bev Jackson
Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth on X) is co-founder of LGB Alliance and a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front (1970). Born into a non-religious Jewish family, she came out as a lesbian at 15 and became the spokesperson at GLF's first march in November 1970. After moving to the Netherlands in 1971, she spent decades fighting for various progressive causes before returning to gay rights activism in 2019. With Kate Harris, she founded LGB Alliance in response to what she saw as the takeover of gay rights organizations by gender ideology. A mathematician by training, translator by profession, and mother of two daughters, Jackson brings five decades of activism experience to the gender critical movement.
🎧 Read the full show notes here: https://stellaomalley.substack.com/p/...
📌 CHAPTERS
00:00 – Trailer
01:10 – Early activism and the Gay Liberation Front
04:22 – Founding the LGB Alliance
08:05 – From lesbian activism to the gender debate
12:48 – The erosion of sex-based rights
18:15 – Why safeguarding matters in the trans debate
24:50 – Taking the fight to politics and the media
30:20 – Bev’s vision for the future
Disclaimer: The discussions in this episode are for educational and informational purposes only. They are not intended as a substitute for medical or mental health services.
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What I love most is the respectful discussion at the end amongst 3 smart, intellectual and powerful women who have quite different viewpoints on the role that modern women play in society, family, home and community. They each chose to do it differently, but they all have been successful. Theres not just one way, not just one approach but what underpins the differences is that united goal of being respectful, and of being decent and responsible members of society.
It is not talked about enough and like so many things, it’s not a one size fits all, black and white, all or nothing scenario.
I don’t think it would be outwith the realm of importance within the purpose of the podcast.
Motherhood has been denigrated for so long now and we have heard of many kids (girls), basically trying to transition out of a sex-determined fate but at the end of the day is a basic biological fact, that we grow the babies and they don’t arrive without huge needs/demands!
I was in Lisbon last year (absolutely brilliant) and for me that was the most significant thing I had done (financially and time-wise) for myself and away from my family in many years. It was so worth it.
Fabulous episode, thank you all 😊
(I'm German and watched this video with English subtitles. It's crazy: every time you said LGB, YouTube displayed LGBT. 😡
And I've never liked the term ‘gender non-conforming’ either.)
I couldn’t agree more!
From Gay Liberation Pioneer to Gender Critical Warrior: Bev Jackson's 50-Year Fight (#29)
Beyond Gender
7,698 views
What drives someone who helped found the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 to co-found LGB Alliance nearly 50 years later? Bev Jackson's journey spans from being the only woman at GLF's first meeting (19 gay men and her) to secretly gathering 70 people in 2019 because gay rights organizations had been "taken over by cuckoos." In this powerful episode, Jackson explains why she believes transphobia is "the opposite of homophobia," reveals how Stonewall's Ruth Hunt betrayed lesbians by adding the T after promising not to, and recounts the courtroom victory when Mermaids spectacularly failed to strip LGB Alliance of charitable status. From her pivotal moment at age 11—standing up as the only Jewish student in an antisemitic classroom—to watching organizations meant to protect gay youth become their "biggest danger," Jackson's story illuminates how the movement she helped birth got hijacked. Her warning: young lesbians on dating apps now find "20, 30, 40 percent are men calling themselves women."
About Bev Jackson
Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth on X) is co-founder of LGB Alliance and a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front (1970). Born into a non-religious Jewish family, she came out as a lesbian at 15 and became the spokesperson at GLF's first march in November 1970. After moving to the Netherlands in 1971, she spent decades fighting for various progressive causes before returning to gay rights activism in 2019. With Kate Harris, she founded LGB Alliance in response to what she saw as the takeover of gay rights organizations by gender ideology. A mathematician by training, translator by profession, and mother of two daughters, Jackson brings five decades of activism experience to the gender critical movement.
🎧 Read the full show notes here: https://stellaomalley.substack.com/p/...
📌 CHAPTERS
00:00 – Trailer
01:10 – Early activism and the Gay Liberation Front
04:22 – Founding the LGB Alliance
08:05 – From lesbian activism to the gender debate
12:48 – The erosion of sex-based rights
18:15 – Why safeguarding matters in the trans debate
24:50 – Taking the fight to politics and the media
30:20 – Bev’s vision for the future
Disclaimer: The discussions in this episode are for educational and informational purposes only. They are not intended as a substitute for medical or mental health services.
🎧 Listen & Subscribe:
🔹 YouTube | 🔹 Substack | 🔹 Spotify | 🔹 Apple Podcasts
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📢 If this episode made you think, share it with a friend!
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#BeyondGender #BevJackson #GenderDebate #LGBAlliance #GayLiberation #SexBasedRights #WomensRights #ChildSafeguarding #FreeSpeech
#GenderCritical