Beware radical gender ideology

Sir, – The latest manifestation of the “your wish is our command” attitude of the Scottish educational establishment toward LGBT campaigning groups is the decision to teach primary 1 children that they can choose their own gender.

It could be that thousands of years of accumulated human wisdom is wrong, and that our batch of virtue signalling politicians are right, but the evidence points the other way.

Gender identity disorder is a mental health problem that tends to lead to a host of serious negative consequences for sufferers.

The route to health and happiness is acceptance of one’s biological sex.

Attempting to distort one’s identity leads to tensions that often leave people suicidal. Let’s be clear that adopting the wrong gender is often the precursor of sex change surgery.

Is that the road we wish to start our primary school children along?

How many mums and dads packing their youngsters off to P1 want their well-being to be endangered by this bizarre ideology?

There should be MSPs opposing, in the strongest terms, this sacrificing of our children on the altar of political correctness.

Instead, we have Conservative Liz Smith.

She musters the courage to say that, while she approves of the indoctrination of children into radical gender ideology, some parents might think P1 too young an age to start.

Note her unwillingness to challenge the message at all, and her ascription of opposition to “some parents” rather than herself.

This leaves her able to deflect criticism that she is “transphobic” as it is just some less enlightened parents that are concerned.

We have 129 MSPs and not one of them will call out this abuse of the education system to promote a doctrine that shouldn’t have gained any traction beyond Queer Theory seminars in our universities. Richard Lucas. Leader of the Scottish Family Party,

272 Bath Street, Glasgow.

It could be that thousands of years of accumulated human wisdom is wrong, and that our batch of virtue-signalling politicians are right, but the evidence points the other way