Independent article re trans policies in schools

[Mumsnut]

www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/transgender-policies-school-gender-identity-neutral-toilets-waste-of-time-money-dr-joanna-williams-a7805511.html

... putting such policies into practice only encourages more children to question unnecessarily whether they are a boy or a girl ...

(That should be in quote marks)

“We are increasingly reminded that schools are struggling financially. Yet the time, effort and money that goes into producing and monitoring Transgender Policies is out of all proportion to the tiny number of trans children currently in British schools,”

This I find interesting. It is a fact that schools are struggling under the pressure of cuts, yet costly consulting and drawing up of policies that will supposedly benefit a TINY, TINY, TINY proportion of children are being mandated all over the show. Why? It's not logical.

What's the end game here? What's this laying of groundwork for?

No schools are questioning it, it all just rumbles along.

The article is a year old?

It seems like a new improved style of poisonous pedagogy of the sort Alice Miller wrote about.

It would be OK if large resources were spent protecting a tiny minority IF:
*they were actually at risk of suicide to the extent claimed by trans rights activists. But we know from the Tavistock that only one child has killed herself in the last decade, while she was in a psych ward. It's actually gay and lesbian young people who are at confirmed risk of suicide. But this ideology harms and confuses them.
*there was no deleterious effect on hard fought for rights to separated sex areas.

Yes it struck me earlier that the quoted figure that trans makes up 1% of the population, puts them on par with coeliacs and autists. When you consider how difficult it is to get a guaranteed gluten free meal in some places or secure an adequate state education for a child on the spectrum... well, there’s something wrong somewhere in terms of resources and provision.