Ministers in Scotland are refusing to quit an LGBT lobby group despite support crumbling among leading public sector bodies.
Stonewall was Britain’s most high-profile LGBT rights charity but in recent years critics have claimed that it has pushed an aggressive agenda with regards to trans issues.
Hilary Cass’s review recently found that children experiencing gender distress and wanting to transition had been let down by a lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions championed by Stonewall.
The Scottish parliament, the Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and the Scottish Court and Tribunal Service (SCTS) confirmed that they have quit membership of the charity, along with Police Scotland. They had faced allegations that membership compromised impartiality.
A Scottish government spokesman said: “We
