Thu Jul 6, 2023 – 9:45 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A UK-based bank is reportedly refusing to open a business account for a parental rights group that vocally opposes the transgender mutilation of children. A spokesman for the bank has stated that any “decision to close or review any account is made for commercial reasons.”
The seventh-largest bank in Britain boasting some 2.5 million customers, High Street retail and commercial institution Metro Bank last month joined most major UK banks in allying itself with controversial pro-LGBT charity Stonewall, which advocates for adherence to transgender ideology and the obliteration of gendered language.
Non-profit parental rights group Our Duty, composed of some 2,000 parents who oppose the chemical and surgical transgender mutilation of children, said Tuesday that it attempted to launch a business account through Metro Bank but was denied after an “in-depth review” because of the content of the group’s website.
The group states on its site that it “is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology.”
In a Tuesday Twitter thread, Our Duty said it had “received a phone call” that morning “from our bankers declining to open
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