Growing. Hopeful. Determined: The 2024 LGB Alliance Conference Report: Our Lives, Our Future

Selection of Images from the LGB Alliance 2024 Conference

Photo of Mark ChaterMark Chater reports on Our Lives, Our Future, the fourth LGB Alliance Conference held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference centre, Westminster in October 2024.

It was so good to be here again. Amongst everyone I talked with, there was a tangible sense that we’re making progress: that our arguments are cutting through with more people. That binary sex is a scientific reality. That women’s rights are important and are under threat. That children should not be medicalised merely because they are confused. That it’s OK to be lesbian, gay or bi. That public sector caring organisations – hospitals, schools, places of faith – are beginning to free themselves from captivity in Genderland. This is all really encouraging. The keynotes and panel sessions were tremendously informing and empowering. Special mentions for actor James Dreyfus; and a co-founder of LGB Christians, Richard Kirker; barrister Akua Reindorf; novelist and founding LGB Christians supporter, Simon Edge; TikTok activist Alison Ellis, and human rights advocate Faika El-Nagashi. 

The LGB Christians stand had busy trade all day, picking up over 30 new contacts, people who absolutely wanted to stay in touch and be involved. I had many conversations there, got to know some LGB core members better, and learnt about new areas for our mission, for example military chaplaincy and universities. 

if our enemies are reduced to hateful attacks …then they have no argument to make, no help to offer

There were some great conversations outside in the fresh air too: why the gender trend had come about, whether it was peaking, what might come next, and ways of working together. 

Most people now know that there was an ‘incident’ – six trans activists somehow thought it would be helpful to their cause if they attacked the conference by releasing thousands of live insects in the main conference hall. Later they boasted about it on crowdfunding sites. Some of them should have been in school that day, so there are safeguarding questions to be answered by whoever sent and supported them. Our conference continued, undaunted, in the coffee area – with a more informal feel, and with a dawning realisation that if our enemies are reduced to hateful attacks like that, then they have no argument to make, no help to offer. Meanwhile we are still here, still growing, still hopeful and determined.

We’ll be at the 2025 conference later this year.  Hope to see you there.