Pride month is over but my local bank still has its rainbow-striped window display firmly in place. The LGBTQ+ theme continues inside with rainbow bunting galore. If you’re lucky enough to spot a member of staff, they’ll be wearing a rainbow lanyard and possibly a pronoun badge to boot.
Today’s revelation that most high street banks are signed up to Stonewall diversity schemes will shock no one. Long after organisations such as the BBC, the Department of Health and even some universities, cut ties with the LGBTQ+ advocacy group over impartiality concerns, banks are still there, dutifully doling out money to Stonewall for the privilege of following its dubious guidance.
For banks to attempt to impose such views on staff and customers alike is to enforce gender ideology by stealth
Stonewall recommends the use of gender neutral language and spaces. This might mean describing mothers as ‘birthing parents’ or allowing men who self-identify as women to use female toilets and changing rooms.
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