Mick Hartley

We've come across LGBT Youth Scotland before – pushing an extreme trans agenda in Scottish primary schools, despite its former chief executive leading what was described as Scotland’s biggest paedophile network, while another convicted paedophile helped write a “coming out” guide for the charity aimed at children.

The latest:

A controversial LGBT youth charity trained volunteers to advise self-harming children to use “clean razor blades” instead of discouraging them from cutting themselves, a whistleblower has claimed.

LGBT Youth Scotland was reported to the Scottish charity regulator by someone who wanted to become a volunteer but was then given “shocking and callous” instructions around how to deal with young people who were intentionally injuring themselves.

It is alleged that managers said if a child was hurting themselves as a “coping mechanism”, then it would be wrong to “take that away from them” and instead they were told “we have to ask them if they are using clean razor blades”.

The volunteer said that when they challenged the policy in October 2023 they were “dismissed” by managers who “didn’t see the issue” and defended self-harm as children “might not have any other ways of coping”.

The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) which this month dropped an inquiry into LGBT Youth Scotland, said it had “engaged” with the charity as a result of the complaint around self-harm and that the organisation had “reviewed” its policies.

The remainder criticised LGBT Youth Scotland, which receives more than £1 million per year in taxpayer funding and is active in hundreds of Scottish schools, for its stance in support of puberty blockers and promotion of gender ideology.

LGBT Youth Scotland last year issued a statement after the Cass Review describing gender-affirming medical treatments such as puberty blockers as “wonderful” despite safety concerns which led to them being banned.

The charity regulator said it had now been “satisfied” with actions taken by LGBT Youth Scotland as part of its inquiry, but it refused to state what these were. 

So that's alright then.