Ms Bailey is suing both Stonewall and Garden Court for discrimination - and has raised more than £495,000 to fund her legal case. Gender-critical beliefs include that sex is biological and immutable, and that the word 'woman' is defined as 'adult human female'.
She is the founder of campaign group LGB Alliance, which has said there is a conflict between the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people, and transgender people. A free speech battle between a lesbian barrister and LGBT charity Stonewall over claims it induced her chambers to launch a probe into her trans rights views has resumed after she fell ill.Īllison Bailey claims that Stonewall convinced her employer Garden Court Chambers to investigate her support of gender-critical beliefs.