Mick Hartley

Yesterday we heard about "LGBT Youth Scotland", a group promoting trans ideology in Scottish primary schools. Here's how it worked for a 12-year-old autistic girl:

Within months of joining the LGBT club, Holly, who her mother says had never shown any hint of being uncomfortable as a girl, announced in a Christmas card to her parents that she had become their “trans son”, signing it with her new male name.

“We thought we were the first ones to know, but it turned out we were last,” Joanne said.

“It turned out she was on to her second male name, and she had been using boys’ names at the school for months. We had been left completely in the dark.

“I even went along with the new name for a while. But as soon as I started to ask questions about what was going on at the school, I was met with a wall of secrecy.”

Joanne says she asked the school and LGBT Youth Scotland to send her the “charter” the school was implementing, as part of its push to win accreditation from LGBT Youth Scotland.

She says both entities sent her the same one-page poster with no details about the actual requirements.

Documents obtained by the Telegraph, released through Freedom of Information laws, show the school was in fact operating a policy stating that parents should not be told if their child had transitioned without their explicit permission.

The setting-up of an LGBT club and the prominent displaying of flags was another condition set out by the charity to receive charter status.

At the time, the school had a bronze award but was working towards silver status….

Joanne believes the school was effectively encouraging pupils to “come out” as trans, to the acclamation of their peers. After finding the material on Holly’s phone, she pulled her child out of the school but discovered that all others in the area had also signed up for the LGBT Youth Scotland scheme.

One, Dunbar Grammar, organised a Happy Fest event in 2020 including two drag acts, with one called Auntie Climax.

It also endorses notions to children that there are genders such as “gender-fluid”, meaning to “identify as different genders at different times”.

“I consider myself a Lefty, I firmly believe in state education,” Joanne said.

“We can’t afford it at all. In many ways, it has screwed up our lives financially and because of all the travelling. But sending her to a private school in England was the only way to get my daughter away from LGBT Youth Scotland.

“She now has no issues whatsoever with her gender. But had she stayed in that school, it was so encouraged and deeply embedded within her friendship group that there is no way she would have turned away from that.

“There’s every possibility that she would have ended up on a medical pathway.

“I’m still very angry about it. My child was vulnerable and I feel they exploited that. They isolated her from her family, told her to keep secrets from us and filled her head with extreme ideas. That is exactly what cults do and I honestly feel that this scheme is a state-funded radicalisation of children.”