Choir members sue charity – always a nice beginning to a headline.
Choristers who were dropped from the London Marathon in a transgender row are taking legal action over “discrimination”.
The Singing Striders, a choir that is often booked to stand on the sidelines of races and raise the spirits of runners, had been invited to attend the 2026 marathon by Scope, a leading disability charity.
The ensemble was subsequently dropped days before the event because Janet Murray, its founder, had been publicly critical of transgender ideology.
Let’s do that with everything. Do some digging, find a random incident that you consider Not Quite the Thing, and get the perps banned or blocked or boycotted or any other version of “ostracized” you can think of. Hours of fun for the whole family! And so social justicey!
Scope decided that her comments went against its “commitment to diversity and inclusion”, and told Ms Murray that the charity was “concerned about your views because we don’t agree with your views”.
Well quite. I mean really. How dare people have views that we don’t agree with? What is the world coming to? Would it not perhaps be best to cancel everyone right now just to be on the safe side?
The choir founder told The Telegraph: “I believe Scope unlawfully discriminated against me because of my lawfully held gender-critical beliefs.
“It raises much wider questions about whether women who state basic biological realities, or advocate for female-only spaces and sport, are increasingly being treated as unacceptable by organisations that claim to value equality and inclusion.”
We know all too well they are.
Ms Murray, a writer and journalist, has expressed concerns about the inclusion of biological males in women’s sports and organisations such as Girlguiding.
Her gender-critical views were the subject of two anonymous complaints to Scope, which then informed Ms Murray that she would not be welcome to sing at the charity’s allotted “cheer zone” spot along the London Marathon route.
Because what? People in the area would know about these gender-critical views? Of course they wouldn’t. The point isn’t that Murray and/or her choir are somehow a toxin for people in the vicinity; the point is to show off. “Look at us insulting yet another women’s group because we are so enlightened!!! Be very impressed!!!!”
The Singing Striders have performed for Scope at past marathons without incident. However, Scope defended its decision on the grounds that it is “committed to the equality and inclusion of trans and non-binary disabled people”.
Shit job of defending. Complete absence of connection between the equality blah blah blah and kicking out a choir because its founder knows that men are not women.
After an outcry over the decision, the charity reinvited the Singing Striders to the marathon, but the offer was declined.
Lawyers acting for Ms Murray and the three other singers claim that actions taken against the group discriminated against Ms Murray’s belief in the immutability of biological sex.
Oh dear, there’s an outcry; we’re sorry we insulted you and excluded you, please come back.
No, fuckers, we’re suing your asses.
Nail them.
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