Mick Hartley

Stephanie Davies-Arai on the need for the Department of Education, in its long-awaited trans guidance, to come down firmly against social transition in schools – The government should stop this social experiment on children:

An editorial in the Times  last week described those who think social transition should be banned in schools as “hardliners” who are adopting an extreme position in a polarised debate. The trans lobby groups who push for social transition, even without informing parents, are characterised as “the opposite extreme”.

This is a false equation. People who understand biology, and think that children should not be misled about this reality by their teachers in schools, are not extremists. Opposing an extremist ideology does not make one an extremist on the opposite side. Disagreeing with Scientology and believing it should not be used as a template for children’s education does not make one some sort of radical.

There are lobbyists for extremist gender identity ideology, and there are those who know that by any objective measure it is not true. Boys do not magically become girls by stating they are. The biology-denialist, anti-reality movement (unlike Scientology) has not only been allowed into schools to train teachers and talk to children (in many cases funded and endorsed by government), but has dictated school policies.

The most extreme point on the spectrum of this extreme ideology is the “gender affirmation” and social transition of children themselves. Using children to “prove” or bolster an ideology and its political aims is exploitation, pure and simple. Social transition of even one child in a school sets a self-ID policy for children in contradiction of the factual teaching of biological sex demanded by the DfE in its RSHE guidance. There is no getting away from this for government.

To encourage children in the nonsensical belief that they can change sex is bad enough. To then expect other children to deny reality and be forced to be complicit in this farce would just be outrageous.