Mick Hartley

Imagine teaching a child to be disgusted with their perfectly healthy body. To other it, to hate it, to want to change it, and to harm it. That is prima facie child abuse.

And that is what 'gender affirmative care' does. Its mission is to teach children that their current body…

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Imagine teaching a child to be disgusted with their perfectly healthy body. To other it, to hate it, to want to change it, and to harm it. That is prima facie child abuse.

And that is what 'gender affirmative care' does. Its mission is to teach children that their current body is wrong and is the cause of their feelings of anomie and pain – natural feelings, which all children suffer at some time.

There is nothing kind or compassionate about teaching children self hatred as transgenderism does. Its purpose is to create disgust in the child in their own body. It is the opposite of teaching body acceptance and self care.

Yet, somehow, transgenderism has managed to twist that message to make it appear that 'gender affirmative care' is kind and beneficial to children. That body hatred is normal. That children have a 'gender identity' and can be born in the wrong body. And that drugs and surgery are the ONLY solution to this adult problem that has been smeared onto our children.

This is the scandal of scandals. Not just because so many children are being damaged by transgender ideology, but because ALL institutions set up to PROTECT children from child abuse are captured and complicit in the abuse. They, too, support children harming their own bodies. Our child protection systems have failed a significant systemic test. They are not fit for purpose. And as a social worker, I am ashamed of the 'leaders' in my profession.