Mick Hartley

A comprehensive take-down by Julie Bindel in the Mail on Sunday – Why Bridget Phillipson is the worst Education Secretary in memory:

A child’s first day at school is challenging enough. But now parents must worry that their four-year-old may come home in the afternoon professing to be a different gender.

This might sound far-fetched, but under new guidelines announced by Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, teachers will be allowed to affirm the gender choice of any child….

So when I read the Government’s new trans guidance for primary schools, released on Friday as a draft and now open to consultation, I sensed the hand of gender activists, whose chief concern is not for child welfare but for political ideology.

But let’s not be surprised by Phillipson’s relaxed attitude to safety in the classroom, given her department’s recent directive to headteachers, as revealed in today’s Mail on Sunday, not to expel children caught carrying knives.

It is, apparently, better for them to be kept in school, while the wellbeing of their classmates and teachers takes a back seat.

Following her absurd Marxist attacks on the successful academy system, her VAT raid on private schools and her wilful ignorance of free speech issues on university campuses, her latest interventions prove she is not only the worst, but the most dangerous Education Secretary in living memory.…

Katharine Birbalsingh:

Bridget Is ruining children’s lives out of an ideological blindness and a desire to look and feel like she is a good person.

And teachers won’t speak out about it because it is the Labour Party. They won’t break ranks.

On top of all that, there’s Phillipson’s role as Minister for Women and Equalities, where she’s been sitting on the EHRC single-sex ruling for months now, in the hope that it’ll go away.