Helen Pitt

And that's not all Stonewall has achieved.

MPs will vote at around 10 o'clock tonight on whether to lower the gay age of consent.

It pushed to equalise the age of consent, to lift the ban on gay people in the military, and to give gay and lesbian people the right to get married.

But 38 years after it was formed, Stonewall's future is uncertain.

Its income has halved, dozens of staff have been made redundant, and hundreds of organisations have severed ties with the charity.

Now, as critics would say, that these are the consequences of Stonewall's uncompromising position on trans rights.

But this is also a story about the challenges of operating in a world where diversity and inclusion have become increasingly dirty words.

Now Stonewall has a new chair, Kezia Dugdale, former leader of Labour in Scotland.

But can she steady the ship and stop the charity heading into terminal decline?

From The Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt.

Today in Focus, what is Stonewall for in 2026?

Kezia Dugdale, welcome to Today in Focus.

Thank you, delighted to be here.

So it's nice to see you.

We are sitting in Stonewall's humble Scottish headquarters in Leith in Edinburgh.

So you are about to take up this new role as chair of Stonewall.

And it's a job that some people would see as a bit of a poison chalice for reasons that we're going to go on to discuss.

But set out, why did you want to take this quite public role?

And you were first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011 when you must have only been not even 30, 29, a baby.

And then you served as the leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2015 to 2017.