LGB Alliance, a UK charity that advocates for same-sex-attracted people, emerged victorious from its legal battle with the trans lobby earlier this month. Two years ago, trans-youth charity Mermaids and the LGBT Consortium launched a legal action to try to strip LGB Alliance of its charitable status. But the case backfired badly when it came before a tribunal last year. During the hearings, Mermaids’ chair of trustees claimed that babies leave the womb without a sex. A ‘trans ally’ MP claimed that even people with penises can be lesbians. Other ‘expert’ witnesses struggled to answer simple questions about gender ideology. The hollowness of the trans lobby, and the absurdity of its ideas, was exposed for all to see.

Journalist, filmmaker and playwright Phelim McAleer is bringing these scenes to the stage in his new drama, Mermaids vs The Alliance. The play, which is based entirely on transcripts of the five-day hearing, is a dramatic staging of the tribunal that put gender ideology on trial. spiked caught up with McAleer to find out more.