Mick Hartley

Stonewall, despite all the setbacks, continue to push their pernicious gender ideology:

More than 300 schools have been told to stop calling pupils boys and girls after signing up to a scheme run by a transgender rights lobbying group.

Primary schools, secondary schools and nurseries teaching children as young as two receive awards from the charity Stonewall if they “remove any unnecessarily gendered language” from the classroom.

They are urged to use “they” instead of he or she and “children” or “young people” instead of boys and girls. Other demands include installing gender-neutral toilets and making both boys and girls wear the same uniforms.

Stonewall’s new annual report reveals that at least 300 schools in England are still signed up to its “champions scheme”.

This is despite the scheme being dropped by several government departments because of its policies, which including backing “self-identification” for anyone wanting to change gender….

Stonewall made £2.9 million in fee income in 2022/23, including “annual contributions from schools or local authorities joining our School Champions or Education Champions programmes”, its accounts state.

It also received £1.2 million in grants, including £101,613 from the Scottish government and £100,000 from the Welsh government.

The Conservative MP Nick Fletcher, who sits on the Commons education select committee, told the Mail On Sunday: “The Education Act is clear that partisan and ideological material should not be promoted in our schools.

“Surely Stonewall continually promoting the unscientific and highly contentious idea of ‘gender identity’ is exactly this.

“Is it time for the government to draw up a blacklist of organisations that ignore these Education Act provisions and who therefore should not be used by our schools?”

Stephanie Davies-Arai of the campaign group Transgender Trend added: “Stonewall has cynically used their credibility as a once highly respected organisation to become peddlers of an extremist ideology and they have deliberately set out to target children from the start.”

What's so alarming is that there are clearly many "nice" people who still believe that this is somehow the right progressive way forward.