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Sport England has ditched its Stonewall membership amid warnings that quangos should distance themselves from the charity, it can be revealed.
The arm-length body will not be renewing its membership as part of a decision over 'value for money', this newspaper can reveal.
It comes after Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary and women and equalities minister, warned quangos to cut ties with the charity amid fears over the influence it is having on policy and its stance on transgender issues.
Sport England had paid more than £5000 in fees to the controversial LGBTQ lobby group in the last two financial years as part of the charity's controversial diversity champions scheme, which includes guidance for employers on pronouns and gender-neutral spaces.
But it no longer expects to 'make any payments to Stonewall in this current financial year' after a review of the partnership.
Sport England will not renew its membership of LGBTQ lobby group Stonewall as part of a decision over 'value for money'
The decision was last night praised by gender-critical campaigners who described the move as a 'relief'.
Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at Sex Matters, a human-rights charity that campaigns for clarity on sex in law, policy and language, said : 'It's a relief to see Sport England stepping away from Stonewall.
'Sport England gets millions of pounds of public money, and it has a duty to make sport work for everyone.
'That duty is not compatible with taking advice from Stonewall, whose approach on sport pushes for men with
