Bring up boys to be men

Sir, - You can always guarantee that our MSPs will jump on any passing politically-correct bandwagon. So, school boys in skirts? Of course.

In Scottish politics and education, adherence to radical gender ideology trumps the well-being of young people.

As soon as T for transgender was added on to the end of LGB, we could be sure that all sense of perspective would be abandoned and dissent crushed.

While parents might discourage their son from going to school in a skirt, for very good reasons, the school will contradict the parents and defend the right of the boy to thus cause himself pain and anguish in the longer term.

Such is the grip that the SNP holds on education, that debate on this issue will be virtually non-existent.

Most MSPs will embrace whatever the tax-payer funded LGBT groups tell them to embrace, and those who privately harbour reservations usually choose cowardice rather than risk their career standing up for children and parents.

As most parents intuitively understand, bringing up girls to be women and boys to be men is important.

That’s not to ascribe strict gender stereotypes, but to value the function of cultural markers that distinguish the sexes (like clothing), thus helping children avoid the dangers of gender confusion.

Lewis Hamilton was vilified for saying that ‘boys don’t wear Princess dresses’.

He has now apologised for his instinctive reaction as an uncle that might just have steered his nephew away from untold problems in the future.

Richard Lucas. Scottish Family Party, 272 Bath Street, Glasgow.

Brexit resulted from a dangerous populist and nationalist spasm which produced a narrow referendum vote for an undefined proposition to leave the EU which should have been probed without rupturing our essential trade and political relations