Parents attacked

So, the Snp/greens are at it again. Having tried (and failed) to remove parental responsibility with the Named Person legislation and also having tried to permit people to change gender without any medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, they now plan to penalise parents for acting as parents.

The Snp/greens are proposing to imprison parents for up to seven years for such matters as preventing their children from “dressing in a way that reflects their sexual orientation or sexual identity”. Children are not sexual beings until after puberty and yet this legislation assumes that they are. This draconian proposed legislation overrules the parents, even if they (the parents) believe that they are acting in the child’s best interests.

This fascistic proposal echoes the comments by the Supreme Court about the Named Persons bill: “The first thing that a totalitarian regime tries to do is to get at the children” and here they are again. The consequence of this proposed law would be the hobbling of parents whose loving aim is to “help or protect” their child – pretty much the wording of the Government at Westminster’s definition of parental responsibilities. Thus, by extension, if my 13-year-old daughter wants to dress as Sacha Baron Cohen in a mankini and I prevent her, I could go to jail for seven years!

I know that many MSPS in the ruling regime have no children. However, it is not for them to redefine the meaning of “parenthood”. Let us hope the UK Government, in the shape of Alister Jack, can prevent another miscarriage of justice from Holyrood.

John Fraser

Glasgow