Trans charity Mermaids fails to have charitable status stripped from LGB Alliance

Judges say law does not allow group to challenge charitable status of new organisation with opposing views

The transgender children's charity Mermaids has lost its attempt to have charitable status stripped from the new gay rights organisation LGB Alliance.

Tribunal judges Lynn Griffin and Joseph Neville rejected a challenge lodged last year by Mermaids, concluding after seven months of deliberation that the law does not permit Mermaids to challenge a decision made by the Charity Commission to register LGB Alliance as a charity.