Levi Pay is a student support specialist, LGB separatist, and anti-transgender activist. Pay served as an advisor to anti-trans groups Sex Matters and Gender Dysphoria Alliance.
Background
Levi William Pay was born in September 1976. Pay earned a bachelor’s degree from The University of Edinburgh in 1999.
In 1994 to 1995, Pay served as a Policy Officer at Stonewall, before serving as Head of Public and Parliamentary Affairs at the Commission for Racial Equality from 1999 to 2002. Pay then worked as Equalities Manager in the Corporate Policy Unit at the Scottish Parliament from 2002 to 2005, advising senior leadership on compliance and equality initiatives. In August 2006, Pay became Head of Equality Services at the University of Leeds, later taking on a concurrent interim role as Director of Policy at the Equality Challenge Unit from August 2009 to July 2010. From February 2012 to June 2017, Pay served as Head of Student Support & Wellbeing at Northumbria University before taking an interim Director role at King’s College London from September 2017 to July 2018. Since August 2017, Pay has been Director and Principal Consultant at Plinth House, providing consultancy and training to higher-education institutions on student services, safeguarding, mental health, and organizational change.
Anti-transgender activism
In a profile on the Sex Matters website, Pay stated:
“Sex matters because, if we lose sight of the reality of biological sex, it is invariably women who lose out or are put at risk. The environments that concern me most are prisons and support services, such as rape crisis centres, where women are already vulnerable. I’m concerned about the ways in which we are destabilising children’s sense of their own sex.
“As someone who was a gender non-conforming child, I believe passionately that we should expand our notions of what it means, for example, to be a boy or a man – but not by throwing away the foundational reality of sex. Sex also matters greatly to trans people. The more we ignore sex in favour of affirming a subjective gender identity, the greater the risk that trans people will be unable to access the healthcare they need.”
Resources
Sex Matters (sex-matters.org)
- Levi Pay
- sex-matters.org/about-us/advisory-group/levi-pay [archive]
Plinth House (plinthhouse.com)
- About us: Levi Pay
- plinthhouse.com/aboutus
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)