The evil trans ideology is in retreat, at last
Sheena’s son is about to be physically castrated. Not exactly the Mother’s Day gift she would have liked. It is absolutely devastating, but Sheena* and other parents of young people who claim their brains and bodies don’t align are starting to fight back against this monstrous, self-elected maiming of their boys and girls. The mums and dads think their children have been indoctrinated by trans activists who, quite unbelievably, have been allowed to preach their controversial views to innocent children in our schools.
In December, the Government finally published its Gender Questioning Children Guidance. But the parents of children who, out of the blue, had announced they were “trans” thought this response was wholly inadequate. The new guidance still provides schools with wiggle room to allow a child to socially transition (changing his/her birth name, demanding pronouns different to his/her biological sex). And this is not a harmless act, as Dr Hilary Cass pointed out in her interim 2022 Review into Gender Identity Services. Very often, it is the first step on a path to gender reassignment, which includes girls having double mastectomies and losing sexual function.
Most children grow out of gender dysphoria given time and it is often symptomatic of something else, not least that standard condition of adolescence: feeling rubbish about yourself. Yet there are forces at work that don’t want children to grow out of being “trans”, or to come to the realisation that they were gay after all.
Today, a group of claimants will apply to the High Court for a Judicial Review, which will claim that Gillian Keegan and the Department for Education are, in effect, sending a message to schools that they can break the law with their soft stance. “The unlawful political indoctrination of children in gender identity ideology is now commonplace in schools and colleges,” one of the witnesses claims. “Trans and non binary are taught in Relationship, Sex and Health Education as ‘cool’ identities, which must be embraced and celebrated at any cost.”
However, the cost (both mental and physical) of telling children they might have been born in the “wrong” body and they need to transition to feel like their “authentic self ” isn’t mentioned, making it more akin to propaganda than education. And, as the claimants sternly point out, political indoctrination of children in local authority (maintained) schools is unlawful under the Education Act 1996.
Claimants in the case, who are supported by the Bad Law Project, include distraught parents like Sheena who say they have witnessed “indoctrination” of their own children, but their complaints to the school were ignored. Also featuring prominently is Kevin Lister, who was sacked after 20 years as a teacher for “transphobia”.
“What was the terrible, bigoted offence I had committed that ended my life’s vocation?” asked Lister. “I dared to challenge whether my colleagues and I should be affirming a 17-year-old female student’s assertion that she was ‘a boy’ without first speaking to her parents.” For failing to do as the student demanded, and call her by a boy’s name, Lister was escorted off the premises with immediate effect. If that sounds like something out of dystopian fiction, that could be because our education system has been infiltrated by third-party providers of gender ideology, paid for out of taxpayers’ money, who behave as if it is biological sex that is the crazy, unscientific idea.
One landmark victory in this bitter culture war has already been won this week. NHS England announced that children will no longer routinely be prescribed puberty blockers following referral from gender identity clinics. Apparently, there was “not enough evidence” puberty blockers are safe or effective. It is hard to overstate how infamous that admission is, or to anticipate with what slack-jawed horror history will regard us. Our society allowed thousands of children to take drugs that prevented the development of their sexual organs without being certain of long-term consequences. There is mounting evidence the hormone blockers may have knocked a few points off the youngsters’ IQ.
Yet still, some trans campaigners refuse to show any shame. “This is a cruel new element of the war on trans youth,” the group Transactual said, “It will irreparably damage people’s health, wellbeing and life chances.” But if anyone is “pursuing a political agenda” here, it is those who lead pupils to believe that changing sex is a lifestyle choice. When the inevitable class actions start, suing for damages for infertility and other life-changing disorders, I do hope trans activist lobbyists are around to foot the bill.
Sheena says she will fight for her “boy” until her dying breath. I don’t use the word evil lightly, but what has been done to young people like Sheena’s son is unspeakably evil, yet the Government has looked the other way. I am sure we all wish Kevin Lister and the parent claimants success in their challenge against Mrs Keegan and the Department of Education. Trans ideologues must be cast out from our schools.
*Sheena’s name has been changed